Congrats!! The pre-order people are already over 2,000 ~
darrenkuo
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How amazing , original game was 15 years ago !
I think it may reach 3,500 peopole before 18th.Sep,
Good Job , Overhual ~
I think it may reach 3,500 peopole before 18th.Sep,
Good Job , Overhual ~
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Since i have ordered 4 copies so far but only show up as 1 pre-order on the list of badge holders i`m willing to bet the number is significantly higher than a mere 2019 atm.
is this true?
If so i'm actually a little worried
Didn't they say they need to sell at least 500,000 copies across all platforms for it to actually be profitable?
And since many fans of Baldur's Gate do also see no reason in buying the enhanced edition for whatever reasones they may have... Well.... I doubt that too man of the recent gaming people will have interest and support the EE with buying it.
I really hope Beamdog will reach a good number in the end, but so far, i still fear that the chance of a socalled "Box Office Bomb" is still incredible high, and lets face it, 2000+ preorders is not really high compared to the end result number which is wanted. One could argue that if already preorders do not pick up at some point, the long-term-number of possible future buyers will also not be THAT great.
But that question is something which should better be asked in around 6-12 months later.
But if i would take a guess... in my opinion i see a number between 20.000 and 50.000/100.000 sold copies as more realistic as a number of 500.000
2000 copies , i feel it's more than i expect until now ,
I believe most of people are waiting the game review now , if the finished version is nice , i think more and more people will purchase this game ,
Don't forget , they still can put the game into Stream , maybe Overhaul will lose some profit , but it's still can sell more copies through lots of sales actions in this case.
For my personal view , i still feel the sales amount are optimistic in the near future.
And the Odds are quite against a succes so far.
- Its a Beamdog only Release and many people refuse to buy somewhere else - especially when buying already at services like gog or steam
- Between 1998 and 2012 there are WORLDS between Gamers of the past and the ones today - for the ones who see graphic as the most important/a important part - the EE is no game which they would buy
- Many, of course not all gamers today seem to have more of a love of online Gaming like WOW and games like that, since its creating a more direct/advanced kind of "bonding" - "socialising" between gamers
- Already the Baldur's Gate fanbase is quite divided in buying or not, since some argue that the amount of features added is not high enough, just taken from modders anyway, perhaps they see no reason to buy the game again because they already have quite many editions of the game which have been released trough the years and similiar reasons
- Versions on other platforms are not as "complete" as the pc version, they may be cheaper, but PERHAPS this could also piss off quite a lot future buyers
- DLC is nothing which many gamers also do want, they see that rather as nothing good, which does scare them off
- And last but not least, many many people do want to have something in hands, a physical disc, which they do own.. the socalled Boxed Editions. And since the EE is sold in digital form, some kind of DRM is there.
Quite a lot of "may be's" - "could be's" which are standing against a possible success.
Sorry, had to say it.
I know plenty of people who will buy this who are not normally gamers (myself included). 500 000 is actually not that much if you think of the diversity of countries represented in the Where are they from poll it
Depends very much on the marketing and word of mouth I think
I think the real question is seeing how well the game does on tablets.
Maybe it's just me being slow, but I have barely seen any hype or promotion for this release outside of this forum. Maybe people should get more engaged in spreading the message...
I'm off to spam the interwebs with free BG:EE advertisements!
I still have some doubts about the touchscreen gameplay but maybe it'll work well idk... its a risk, risks have been taken now we must wait and see how the fish bite.
Remind all the old gamers of their favourite BG moment and watch nostalgia grow into an uncontrollable need to buy the game, muhahahaha
There's a version for Macs too, not just iOS.
@Tr_ond
As someone who plays games on consoles and portables too, I don't really see why BG on a console would be a nightmare.
Other than that it is just my pc elitism kicking in.
Without a mouse the controls for a game like BG would always be inferior on a console, but that doesn't mean that the game would be unplayable. I certainly had a lot of fun playing Command & Conquer Red Alert on my PSX.