Cities : Skylines

[Spectacle]

paradox announced that skylines sold 1mln coppies

Volourn

 

[cw8]

paradox announced that skylines sold 1mln coppies

Great! Hope it sells much more. And put the game on GOG.

 

[Makabb]

paradox announced that skylines sold 1mln coppies

gta v sold 1 mln coppies only on steam on 1st day

 

[Modron]

paradox announced that skylines sold 1mln coppies

gta v sold 1 mln coppies only on steam on 1st day

I am sure that 1 million number was a running total it's been available for pre-purchase for a while.

 

[Perkel]

trully mighty feat to beat new completely new game from one of the niche distributors created by team completely unknown to people with 0 marketing

It's not like take 2 is one of the biggest publishers, spending milions for marketing hiring shit ton of people who worked several years spending more than 100milion for developement releasing first on two separate console generations starving pc players for game that has like 20 years legacy of "amazing games"*

And they beat it in one day what skylines had to do in a month. Trully spectacular win.

 

[Angthoron]

trully mighty feat to beat new completely new game from one of the niche distributors created by team completely unknown to people with 0 marketing

Not to mention a sullied franchise name (Thanks, Cities XXL!)

 

[Turjan]

trully mighty feat to beat new completely new game from one of the niche distributors created by team completely unknown to people with 0 marketing

Not to mention a sullied franchise name (Thanks, Cities XXL!)

Yup. We've seen J_C fall into that trap.


So I guess it's time for me to add a mod, as somehow one of the vanilla restrictions gets obvious:

 

[Mr. Pink]

Useful

The Windmühle of Love and Tolerance

 

[catfood]

paradox announced that skylines sold 1mln coppies

They'll only put it on GOG in 2025 when they think they've milked it dry.

 

[Turjan]

paradox announced that skylines sold 1mln coppies

They'll only put it on GOG in 2025 when they think they've milked it dry.

This became already obvious in the days before release. When Paradox noticed that this might be a big seller, they suddenly switched the Steam requirement from "only activation" to "let's check periodically". The dollar euro signs appeared in their eyes.

 

[cw8]

They better not put POE's expansions as steam only. That's my number 1 worry right now.

 

[Alpinia]

paradox announced that skylines sold 1mln coppies

They'll only put it on GOG in 2025 when they think they've milked it dry.

This became already obvious in the days before release. When Paradox noticed that this might be a big seller, they suddenly switched the Steam requirement from "only activation" to "let's check periodically". The dollar euro signs appeared in their eyes.

Is this true? Their faq only mentions a one-time steam activation, they've been boasting about their DRM-free stance for quite a while and none of their current self-developed games have any kind of DRM, so that would be very out of character for Paradox.

 

[Turjan]

Is this true? Their faq only mentions a one-time steam activation, they've been boasting about their DRM-free stance for quite a while and none of their current self-developed games have any kind of DRM, so that would be very out of character for Paradox.

It's their first game that requires Steam to run to play it (can be offline mode, but still). The change of mind took place a few days before release. From the horse's mouth:

"Alright, so I got some solid answers for you. Steam is required to validate and play the game, even if you purchase a physical copy. You can run Steam in offline mode, but it is still required to be running in order to play Cities: Skylines.

I realize that someone trying to avoid all DRM certainly wouldn't like those answers =( but this is the way that Paradox and CO have opted to go at this time."

http://community.simtropolis.com/topic/66146-question-about-steam/?p=1555914

 

[Alpinia]

It's their first game that requires Steam to run to play it (can be offline mode, but still). The change of mind took place a few days before release. From the horse's mouth:

"Alright, so I got some solid answers for you. Steam is required to validate and play the game, even if you purchase a physical copy. You can run Steam in offline mode, but it is still required to be running in order to play Cities: Skylines.

I realize that someone trying to avoid all DRM certainly wouldn't like those answers =( but this is the way that Paradox and CO have opted to go at this time."

http://community.simtropolis.com/topic/66146-question-about-steam/?p=1555914

Well, that's disappointing. Won't make any practical difference for me since I'm always online these days, but I don't like it on principle.

 

[Seerix]

Well, that actually makes sense given very broad audience of this type of game. Making it just a little bit harder to pirate ensures that quite a lot of lazy people will just buy it. Making mods only possible trough Steam Workshop(afaik) also detracts piracy a lot.

 

[vonAchdorf]

Well, that actually makes sense given very broad audience of this type of game. Making it just a little bit harder to pirate ensures that quite a lot of lazy people will just buy it. Making mods only possible trough Steam Workshop(afaik) also detracts piracy a lot.

Mods work without Steam Workshop.

 

[Makabb]

Goddamit blocking highway and they don't want to let him in !

 

[Mask]

Goddamit blocking highway and they don't want to let him in !

I'd be more concerned with the buss going down on that minivan, but that's just me.

 

[Ulminati]

 

[Haba]

Imagine if you actually had to live there.

 

[Modron]

Imagine if you actually had to live there.

It would probably weed out all the terrible drivers in a week and we'd be better off for it.

 

[cw8]

Is this true? Their faq only mentions a one-time steam activation, they've been boasting about their DRM-free stance for quite a while and none of their current self-developed games have any kind of DRM, so that would be very out of character for Paradox.

They've sold out to steam long ago. In fact they've published an article that regular gameplay DLCs and patches are their counter piracy methods. The base vanilla game for CK2, EUIV work DRM-free if you copy the game files out of the steam folder but none of the DLCs work. Won't be surprised if they made even the vanilla game to be steam activated as of now. I'm still pissed at them for changing all my Gamersgate CK2 and EUIV keys to steam keys at that time, when I bought from GG to avoid steam in the first place. Their pro DRM-free advocating was quite a few years back before they tasted success from CK2 and Magicka. Now they've made a big U-turn and went down the steam and DLC spamming route even though they still make awesome grand strategy games and publish great ones like Cities Skylines.

 

[Thane Solus]

paradox announced that skylines sold 1mln coppies

gta v sold 1 mln coppies only on steam on 1st day

Gta V had 1 gazilion devs(at least 100), Cities Skylines had around 20 + the publisher share. Do you know what it means to sell 1mil copies for those 20 people even with a publisher share? Besides making lots of money to make more games which is great, its also a great achievement, where triple AAA studious failed, a group of dedicated devs shined.

also, FUCK GTA V!

 

[Caim]

paradox announced that skylines sold 1mln coppies

gta v sold 1 mln coppies only on steam on 1st day

Gta V had 1 gazilion devs(at least 100), Cities Skylines had around 20 + the publisher share. Do you know what it means to sell 1mil copies for those 20 people even with a publisher share? Besides making lots of money to make more games which is great, its also a great achievement, where triple AAA studious failed, a group of dedicated devs shined.

also, FUCK GTA V!

GTA V's biggest rival was GTA IV. And no, Saints Row stopped being a rival after Saints Row 2. Cities: Skylines had to fight Sim City (the series that made the genre!) and a few other small (but bigger than them) teams.

And then these two dozen Scandinavians show up and put out a game that both blows their direct competitors out of the water and slaps the shit out of the game that took millions to make and had hundreds of people working on it. If I made a game that was that beloved by the fans and obliterated the work of my biggest competitor? My erection would last at least a WEEK.

 

[taxalot]

Been playing this for a while, and I wish this game wasn't that easy. It's ridiculous how much I'm basically in God Mode right now and this is only my first city. I guess I should try a difficulty mod.