Their best selling is easily First Chapter on steam.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd coming west for PC in 2017
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Their best selling is easily First Chapter on steam.
The difference is there's not many series that are this long and over that many platforms and also need that continuity for the players to grasp the story and to be able to enjoy the narrative properly. The only one I can think of is Kingdom Hearts which has been widely ridiculed for it's platform hopping that Square themselves acknowledged was a mess. They fixed it by doing collections to bring the series and continuity to a platform base. Why they skipped Xbox I don't know, but they did what they had to consolidate the franchise. Trails kind of needs something similar.
At least in the West anyway since it's not really an issue in Japan. If and when localisation catches up in the West it won't realy matter here either but until then it's a bit all over the place. Like I said I'll play wherever, but a large amount of people won't
SatelliteOfLove
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Dunno, we need LETS POSITIVE THINKING and we keep getting this.
Do we have numbers for Cold Steel or...? Because as far as we know Trail FC on PC is the best selling title.
chaosblade
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Not entirely true, someone pointed out in another thread how one of the Neptunia games (I think) was released around the same time, but had more, bigger discounts, and it's resulting sales brought in more revenue than SC, despite SC selling at a higher price point.
It depends on what you think the game will sell at different price points over time. XSEED probably doesn't think sales would be substantially better at a lower price yet. The 30% discount is dipping their toes in the water to see where the audience for a lower price is.
Alex
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Neptunia needs to be on sale for 6 dollars every week because it's Neptunia.
SC will probably do better over time, it's just not gonna be as initially friendly to impulse buys being a sequel to a very niche, very large game.
UberTag
Member
Can we send these people a fruit basket in gratitude?
Particularly an azure-shaded basket with the fruit pre-cut into zero shapes?
Agreed. I'm sure there are many who thought Trails was a trilogy, and people will likely continue to refer to the 3rd as TC. Just having more Trails out does wonders for the series as a whole. It makes it easier to recommend, more people will be willing to give it a chance, and the fans that get hooked can continue to be relied on.
Ramzastrife
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I am so happy right now, I can't believe we will be getting 3rd so soon. Thanks to XSEED, especially Brittany, Sara and unnamed CS translator! If I could buy you a beer or a shot over the internet, I would do it!
I understand people's frustration that the PSP version isn't getting released, but it just isn't feasible. Many of the "options" people have proposed aren't options either because of Falcom or SCEA or Licensing or w/e. The Gaijinworks suggestion is especially not feasible. That would cost a lot of money, and the number of sales that they would get would not balance out the cost, not to mention they would have to get Falcom to allow it, and Victor Ireland to agree to it. Vic and XSEED already have some bad history with Lunar Silver Star Harmony, so I can almost guarantee you that he would not do this, nor would XSEED be able/willing to pay him enough to make it worth his time.
I wish XSEED could make every person happy with this, but unfortunately they can't. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
I do wonder how many of the people that "were gonna buy SC when TC happened" are a lot of the same that "weren't gonna buy FC until SC happened?"
I understand people's frustration that the PSP version isn't getting released, but it just isn't feasible. Many of the "options" people have proposed aren't options either because of Falcom or SCEA or Licensing or w/e. The Gaijinworks suggestion is especially not feasible. That would cost a lot of money, and the number of sales that they would get would not balance out the cost, not to mention they would have to get Falcom to allow it, and Victor Ireland to agree to it. Vic and XSEED already have some bad history with Lunar Silver Star Harmony, so I can almost guarantee you that he would not do this, nor would XSEED be able/willing to pay him enough to make it worth his time.
I wish XSEED could make every person happy with this, but unfortunately they can't. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
I do wonder how many of the people that "were gonna buy SC when TC happened" are a lot of the same that "weren't gonna buy FC until SC happened?"
charlequin
Banned
SC is selling at a high price (still hasn't been below $21) and gets a bump when it goes on even gentle sale; extra sales of FC at $10 have the potential to turn into SC sales down the road. I think a lot of us would like to see it do even better, but I don't think claims that it "bombed" are really accurate when the sales lifecycle of a title like this on PC is so long, and it's not hard to imagine that it was worthwhile for them monetarily.
Why? The game will be $14 eventually and the people who played FC but thought $30 was a bit too steep for the followup will still be there.
Nope no numbers,but they said pre-ordered well.
Well its the best selling that we know of for the moment until we get CS numbers.
Good news. I just bought today SC on Vita thanks to the sale; I did not know it had already been released in Europe (for some reason it is not listed in my psp Vita storefront, I had to search for it).
I never play games on PC nor do I have steam or anything installed so I doubt I will play this. But the option will be there which is more than most of us expected. For now I have a lot to digest with SC and later Cold Steel and maybe Cold Steel II.
I never play games on PC nor do I have steam or anything installed so I doubt I will play this. But the option will be there which is more than most of us expected. For now I have a lot to digest with SC and later Cold Steel and maybe Cold Steel II.
SpaceDrake
Member
Praise be to She Who Dwells Above.
Anyway, like I said in the tease thread and as Tom confirmed, for better or worse Carpe Fulgur isn't involved with this one, and further collaboration doesn't seem terribly likely, as much as that bums me out (because Crossbell is so good, y'all, you have no idea). Still, in the hands of Brittany, Sara, and I suspect our own Mr. Varion, I have no doubt that 3rd will turn out great and y'all should set your hype train engines to maximum steam.
And yeah, while I don't think I'm at liberty to discuss actual numbers (those NDAs are scary), I'm pretty sure I can say that everyone involved is pretty confident SC will do well long-term. (Of course, you can certainly take advantage of that sale right now to help out, if you feel so strongly about it. Just, y'know. Pointing that out.)
Why? FC and SC are a complete story without TC anyway.
Sounds good to me, long as I get to play the crossbell games before I die I'm cool.
We also know the series have sold 350,000 copies to date, 172,538 ± 9,395 which are Trails in the Sky FC on Steam.
Mass_Pincup
Banned
It really shows how they aren't accustomed to the long terms profit that a PC release entails.
We should remember FC and SC are also on GOG and they were first on the top sellers list after their release. FC it was on the top even for one week or two.
Maintenance
Member
I hope they don't fuck the regional pricing this time. I'm there day zero if they do it right.
Yup, on top of PSP physical/digital sales over the years.
I'm totally late to the party here, sorry dudes.
I know this was lots of pages back, but I don't think anyone actually posted Falcom's original requirements for the game. (Source.)
I know this was lots of pages back, but I don't think anyone actually posted Falcom's original requirements for the game. (Source.)
Clever Pun
Member
I'm 40+ hours into SC and still enjoying it so much. I love this series and I can't express how excited I am to hear we get the 3rd Chapter! I honestly didn't think it was going to happen based on everything surrounding the localization of SC.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
Amazing.
Nightengale
Member
[TRAILER SPOILER ALERT]
Avoid watching these if you don't want any spoilers whatsoever.
Below are the two trailers for Trails in the Sky The 3rd to promote the game back when it first released in 2007 :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCzXkkYgJto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB04vpGXvvw
Avoid watching these if you don't want any spoilers whatsoever.
Below are the two trailers for Trails in the Sky The 3rd to promote the game back when it first released in 2007 :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCzXkkYgJto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB04vpGXvvw
skLaFarebear
Member
Brittany, Sara, and the unnamed Cold Steel translator are the heroes we deserve.
Thanks to you three (and everyone at XSEED) i dont have to live in a world where there's no more Trails games coming out in English.
Thanks to you three (and everyone at XSEED) i dont have to live in a world where there's no more Trails games coming out in English.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Nightengale
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Sammy Samusu
Member
I keep hearing about these games but I don't know anything about them.
Educate me.
Educate me.
Maintenance
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Basileus777
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Yes, it was done for FC and SC. But the voice acting is minimal, it's just a few in-battle quotes.
It was done for SC as well? I looked into it myself but only very briefly, and put it on the back burner when I realized I wasn't going to play SC in 2015 anyway. So someone already finished it in the meantime? Nice!
Linearskillz
Member
Oh man this is awesome news. I'm really surprised they're going ahead with it but definitely happy!
That's good news; will pick these up during the next big sale.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Both games are on sale for their lowest prices to date right now, FC is 50% off (ties it's lowest) and SC is 30% off, which is the first big sale it's had.
Sooooo... right now! Haha
skLaFarebear
Member
That "unnamed translator" is actually Varion on GAF.
RIP my terrible Dark Knight joke.
For real tho thanks Varion and everyone at XSEED.
I thought this day might never come, praise be to Aidios. Really hope that means we get Zero/Ao within the next decade that would be awesome.
Played all the Keski games on Vita but I guess I now have to go buy FC/SC on PC! Do CS 1/2 work with Vita TV, might as well have all the games full screen from now on lol (Assuming CS3 is Vita/PS4 of course).
Edit: And done!
Played all the Keski games on Vita but I guess I now have to go buy FC/SC on PC! Do CS 1/2 work with Vita TV, might as well have all the games full screen from now on lol (Assuming CS3 is Vita/PS4 of course).
Edit: And done!