Intheflorsh
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But I thought PC gaming was dead, et cetera...
Seriously though, I thought they would have been past 1.5 million by now judging solely from the Steam charts.
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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 III - Don't Believe The Tags
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But I thought PC gaming was dead, et cetera...
Seriously though, I thought they would have been past 1.5 million by now judging solely from the Steam charts.
Pity about Ikaruga's sales. :\
Hopefully it at least recouped porting costs, and will turn profitable during it's first Steam sale.
Did they make any announcements about the sales numbers on PC? Isn't it a bit too early to talk about how successful it is considering that it came out 5 days ago?
With any luck it'll get a spotlight in the near future and won't just be reduced during the Summer Sale, sandwiched between a million other games. Titles that cater to a specific niche need to be highly visible and discounted enough that they fall within impulse purchase territory. I think Ikaruga would do well as a Daily at 33% off.
As an aside, I've sent off my support ticket to Ubi. The situation was a little confusing to explain but hopefully my request is clear.
Intheflorsh
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Well, the Steam charts are based off of revenue and Ikaruga isn't even in the top 100. That's not good for a game that's not even a week old.
Treasure tweeted something about 5000 people having submitted a score. Even if you take into account people who bought the game but still haven't played, that's no more than 10000 sales.
Blue Ninja
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~Let's go to Japan~
Also, I misread the app id that the Settlers 7 DLC pack requires so now I really do need to try and wrangle a Steam key for Paths to a Kingdom vanilla out of Ubi.
Most publishers must have your (or Saoirse's) picture on the wall by now, don't they? Just a big "beware" sign taped next to it.
Just WB.
Oh, and Nordic ignored my question regarding the Agatha Christie games (I noticed a few months ago that they'd recently been added to the Nordic employee sub so I asked if there were any plans to re-release them on the store).was there a report about shitty Ikaruga sales?
Intheflorsh
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The saddest thing about the Ikaruga situation is how optimistic the devs sounded about Steam before the game came out. They said they were thinking about making an action game for Steam, but I wonder if Ikaruga's sales are going change their minds.
I don't know if the charts are specific to each region, but on my end it is placed at 63 on the top sellers list.
Visualante2
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Once it goes on sale it will probably do better.
OTOH, we don't know what kind of sales they expected, so maybe they are happy.
Still, it doesn't look that good when compared to DayZ/Rust/Banished, right?
They are. The Top 10 is usually consistent among regions but once you dig deeper the difference in rankings will become apparent. For example, Starbound is #14 on the US Top Sellers list whereas on the Aussie store that spot is occupied by Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom Deluxe Gold.
mrchampipi
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Thank you very much for it: was curious to try.
According to a poster in the Ikaruga OT it did sell around 5000 copies on the Gamecube. The PC version can easily do a lot better with proper visibility and by being more attractively priced (I still think it is a great deal with it's current price).
Theoretically any games that Steam has not detected an update for, and those that have a show CD key flag attached that Steam has already retrieved, should work in Offline Mode, but even after all this time it's not perfect.
Not exactly. You can follow the conversation about Treasure's Tweet in the Ikaruga OT, it kind of puts things in perspective.
Link.
People on steam do not buy games unless they are on sale or with lots of hype. what the point when your backlog is longer that all console games released in the past ?
Devs have to adapt or quit.
For Ikagura, it is even worse considering this is a port of an old game, which, cynically, you can download for free on the internet in 2 minutes.
I did bought in on android, gamecube and soon steam, but for most people, you will need more.
Thank you for the clarification Jase.
Hexcells
..is great! It's sort of like Minesweepers (not random, tho) and Picross. Both the music and sound effects are very pleasant so it's really relaxing to play.
Got through all puzzles in about 2.5 hours and immediately bought its sequel Hexcells Plus.
It's $2.99 on the Store (bundle is $4.99) and worth every penny.
Here's another write-up from RPS: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/02/20/hexcells-and-hexcells-plus-now-available-on-steam/
..is great! It's sort of like Minesweepers (not random, tho) and Picross. Both the music and sound effects are very pleasant so it's really relaxing to play.
Got through all puzzles in about 2.5 hours and immediately bought its sequel Hexcells Plus.
It's $2.99 on the Store (bundle is $4.99) and worth every penny.
Here's another write-up from RPS: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/02/20/hexcells-and-hexcells-plus-now-available-on-steam/
I had some problems linking to the specific post that started the sales conversation. Apologies.
PetriP-TNT
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Every once in a while after a match ends (30 rounds in competitive) you get an item ranging from cases (Weapons), capsules (these contain stickers, they are new) or an weapon. You aren't guaranteed to get a drop each match. Matches take around a half an hour to complete.
Cases and capsules can be only opened with keys that you can buy from the marketplace and they contain one item of various rarities. Cases and capsules are virtually worthless and the keys are rather expensive too. You can sell the weapons (etc.) on the marketplace which where they range from few cents to big buxxx. You can also trade 10 weapons of same collection and rarity to one higher tier of rarity, which is insanity if you don't buy the weapons from the marketplace because that will take AGES to get drops from.
That said, yes, you can make money just buy playing the game, but unless you are very lucky we are talking about cents here. You can also try and game the market but like I said, everything is random which makes the process much much much harder. My suggestion? If you really want a shiny weapon, buy one from the market and hope that eventually you get a nice drop that nets you a few dollars.
Krappadizzle
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I have the same coupons also if anyone wants them.
Thanks for the reply, looks like it's not worth bothering with
Jawmuncher
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Played about an hour of Dysfunctional Systems. I like it.
Going to try and finish it this week and if it holds true i'll be backing the current kickstarter for the other parts.
Going to try and finish it this week and if it holds true i'll be backing the current kickstarter for the other parts.
Wut really?
So I guess it sold even less copies on Dreamcast, which means I kinda want mine to be signed and numbered.
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Just buy it to increase the sales numberWut really?
So I guess it sold even less copies on Dreamcast, which means I kinda want mine to be signed and numbered.
It's in the top one hundred and it was in the top 10 for the first 2 days.
It's number 68 in the top 100.
Where is all this made up news about Ikaruga coming from?
Chairmanchuck
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Is Go Go Nippon in a bundle right now?
Jive Turkey
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Yeah there were some parts that were pretty terrible.
Bad platforming + Dozen enemies all over the screen + Can't see shit = Ugh.
OcarinaOfDoom
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Jeez. I know it's been selling really well, but that's impressive. Kudos to the devs.
where? lol
The..."made up"...news is coming from Treasure's Twitter account, which indicated that, one day after launch, there were ~5000 entries on the game's leaderboards.
Wut really?
So I guess it sold even less copies on Dreamcast, which means I kinda want mine to be signed and numbered.
Steam sales are for the long run. Stop thinking about 1st day sales. the game will not disappear from the shelves like a retail release.
As JaseC has explained, the top sellers list is region specific.
All those claims are based on this Tweet. Nobody, besides Treasure and Valve, knows how successful the game has been so far. I think it is way too early to deem the game a failure in terms of sales.
Chairmanchuck
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Tizoc
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Thats what I am asking
No bundle that I am aware of ATM, unless Groupees does a Doujin 3 bundle.
I just bought it to support the dev and make a giveaway of it.
Come march I'll make one for Ikaruga too.
The title is too obscure for him. He would scare everyone from buying it by being bad at this game
Nope, but it's only 5 bucks.
Chairmanchuck
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He mentioned Ikaruga on the Polaris podcast last week, he said he wasn't going to do a WTF is... on a port of a Dreamcast game so I'd say the chances of him changing his mind are slim to none. As for Rambo, that was another in his series of "OMGWTF is this shit, do not buy this terrible game" videos that makes him ever so popular amongst devs.
jediyoshi
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Ideally you'd be playing the game to be playing the game during the process.
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