Broken Age not even in the top20 anymore. Starting to actually feel bad for Tim Schafer, seems like the man is cursed with his games not selling.
Hopefully they'll do better on iOS.
Did not thought much about the iOS market before but it is highly possible.
Was a big surprise to me to learn Broken Sword and Bard Tales earned so much money on iOS.
Thanks iOS for the resurrection of the BS franchise and the survivability of Inxile.
Cowboy Moment as you often follow Steam Top list, how is doing MM/Blackguard so far in comparion of SR ? and in comparison of a "successful" game (not AAA though or little AAA) ?
It's not always easy to tell since, well, the list just shows relative placement, so it depends on what points of comparison you have available. Still, I think SRR was nevertheless significantly more successful, it occupied first place of the top sellers list for over a week, although against competition much weaker than DayZ and Rust at the moment (it would probably take a major AAA game to dethrone those). It also had like ~18k people playing it at launch, which a popular rule of thumb would equate to ~180k sales in the first two days.
Blackguards basically enjoyed a week within the top10, and MMX kinda hovered at the edge of it, sometimes in, sometimes out. Judging whether that's "successful" is a more difficult problem. Blackguards is definitely Daedalic's most successful game on Steam, and I would be very surprised if it wasn't wildly profitable for them, given what their typical budgets are. With MMX, eh, it's really hard to tell what Ubisoft considers a success. I think it's definitely profitable, given the short development time and obviously low-ish budget, but other than that, we'd have to ask our prestigious industry insiders like
Grunker or
Crooked Bee to reach out to the likes of Julien Pirou and delicately inquire if he's happy about the sales. Another thing that makes MMX difficult is that retail/uplay copies don't activate on Steam, so we have no idea how well that did.
In general though, I'd say the outlook is positive. On a related note, there's a pretty active thread on the console-oriented neogaf about MMX, and a good amount of people seem to be enjoying it as their first entry into the genre/series.
Anyway, that's my prestigious industry analysis/forecast.
assive Chalice KS (obviously), humble bundle, rerelease of Brutal Legend.
