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Game barely made any money, so they write down entire game's budget as a loss, or something like that.
They went straight into gamepass and skipped most other platforms. I guess they were maybe expecting PC sales but didn't get much there either. Not sure what they were thinking to be honest as it's already a niche and a subset of PC owners are on the sub too. They should have tried to get the whole dev amount upfront if they weren't trying to sell it anywhere.
I would love to see that deal with MS if they are quoting $7 million to make and $30 million to develop.
If the deal is based also on downloads good luck with starfield lies of p or forza... some games are left behind..too many games..may quantity Vs quality? Do you think Lamplight is part of the quality or the quantity?
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Game was average and it's a niche pc game. Putting it on PlayStation and switch wouldn't of helped that much. I don't think Paradox games do that well on consoles anyway... PC company and PC games.
The Gamepass effect. Guess that adding your game to Gamepass doesn’t equal a magical unicorn giving you more sales. Who could’ve thought?
Yes, this game that nobody cared about when it launched would have been absolutely massive if even fewer people had played it.
Not saying it would be a success because when I played it I noticed it’s quite a middling game, but I’m quite sure it would’ve moved more copies if it released on all big platforms instead of on a subscription service.
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says, even the terrible name will have put some people off (I was one of them!).
The conversation, and Paradox’s report, is about the commercial success (or lack thereof) of the game — not how many people played the game.
I dunno, i think the name is alright. A lamplighter was a job in Victorian times that went obsolete with the switch to electric lighting so that invokes a steampunk type aesthetic with lots of crazy weapons extrapolated from Victorian technology. The league part of the title makes me think of the Extraordinary league of gentlemen, a loose group of people with varied talents taking on a mysterious adversary. This is reinforced by the cover art. Before I knew anything about the gameplay and seeing it was a Paradox game I was thinking along the lines of a turn based version of The Order 1886. Personally the name and aesthetic wasn't a problem for me, I was interested in the game coming upto release but it was the reviews that made it fall flat for me. Coming out to mediocre reviews and reading a little about the gameplay loop pushed it way down my play list. There are loads of games in this genre where once you have put a bit of time and experience points into just a handfull of characters you are then kind of forced to carry on playing with these same characters for the rest of the game because the others in the roster are not levelled enough to be competitive in the missions you now have available to play. You end up playing the same characters in the same way for the rest of the game and it gets monotonous. Add to that a lack of a base building element or other significant substance outside the missions and its totally killed my enthusiasm for it. I would probably prefer to play BG3 instead or even go back and play through an XCom, a Wasteland or even Massive Chalice (heavily underrated imo). I might get around to playing Lamplighters League but right now its getting a worse reception than even Mutant Year Zero which I really disliked for the reasons mentioned above so i'll probably give it a miss entirely. Its a shame because I really love turn based strategy games especially when they have a realtime element to them. We got really spoiled with Xcom Enemy Unknown and it set a very high bar that any game struggles to get anywhere near.
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Didn't that studio who made Shadow tactics recently go out of business?
Wait, it was right into GamePass without any other console platforms release? That’s just dumb, what the hell were they thinking?
Yes, they done it on their own accord. Governmental funding in Germany was always really bad and an issue to begin with. If you're not doing mobile games, you have a really hard time. Recently the government declared to reduce fundings for the video game sector even further. So you either come up with a different Investor or an investor who is willing to fill the gap left by the government's funding, or you dial back on content and/or quality.
I would have to imagine that the developers would have worked out an upfront deal with MS. Given the developers pedigree I would hope they could negotiate an up front/lump sum deal. If they signed a deal on engagement then they would be screwed and maybe that is why they wrote the whole project down after release. If they were banking on xbox players engaging very high to drive interest for players without gamepass thus leading to sales then the poor gamepass engagement could be why the write down is underway. (all conjecture of course)
"Game Pass- the BEST deal in gaming"...
