A glance at HoI3

[sbr]

I know he said that EU1 sold more copies than EU2 and that EU2 was one of, if not the worst selling of their "major" games.  Rome sold better than you would have thought, probably only behind HOI3 and EUIII.  I am sure HOI3 and EUIII are far any away their top sellers :obvious:

I'm sure EU3 was, but I wonder about HOI. It's already 15 bucks on steam after all.

They have never made any sales numbers public but I would be shocked if HOI3 didn't come close just in pre-orders and people that bought the game before everyone realized it was fucked.

[sbr]

From the guy that started the thread I linked before

[HisMajestyBOB]

 
That's what happens when retards buy from Steam.

[Ed Anger]

That's what happens when retards buy from Steam.

HEY!

[HisMajestyBOB]

[Razgovory]

I like Steam.  I think it's pretty nifty.  I've not had any major problems with it.  I did buy HOI3 from Gamersgate (fat lot of good it did).

[dps]

Incidentally, do we have any ideas of sales compared to past titles?

There was a post about a year ago maybe where Johan gave a vague list, but never any real concrete numbers.

I know he said that EU1 sold more copies than EU2 and that EU2 was one of, if not the worst selling of their "major" games.  Rome sold better than you would have thought, probably only behind HOI3 and EUIII.  I am sure HOI3 and EUIII are far any away their top sellers :obvious:

I'm pretty sure that Johan posted once that Victoria had been their worst-selling title.

[sbr]

Incidentally, do we have any ideas of sales compared to past titles?

There was a post about a year ago maybe where Johan gave a vague list, but never any real concrete numbers.

I know he said that EU1 sold more copies than EU2 and that EU2 was one of, if not the worst selling of their "major" games.  Rome sold better than you would have thought, probably only behind HOI3 and EUIII.  I am sure HOI3 and EUIII are far any away their top sellers :obvious:

I'm pretty sure that Johan posted once that Victoria had been their worst-selling title.

That is entirely possible, I was just surprised how low EU2 was so I may be over(or under)-stating things here.

[HisMajestyBOB]

EU2 was rated lower than EU1 (which also surprises me. Evidently most of the EU1 buyers didn't register on the forums. Or some crazy rich guy bought like 100,000 copies).

[Josephus]

Yeah, that doesn't seem right to me. The P'dox forum was still a desert when I joined back in 2001. It wasn't until EU2 and then HOI that it got out of hand. Unless all those peeps downloaded those games?

[dps]

I think that it may have been distribution issues.  I don't think that EUII was on the shelves of as many retailers as EUI had been.  For one thing, there weren't as many outlets selling computer games--a lot had gone over to being mostly focused on console games, and a lot of places that still sold computer games had cut back the amount of space that they had for computer games--again, mainly in favor of console games.  And on-line distribution wasn't as widely used as it was by the time EUIII came out.

[garbon]

Yeah, whereas I remember more shelf-space for eu1 and it was even on shelves longer once it went discount (eu2 disappeared).  At any rate, it would be foolish to ignore the community of impact of eu2. That's where the name began to get known.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Surprised that EU2 was rated low.  I loved both games. I even enjoyed HOI to an extent. 

I just really hope PC games remain a market. 

[dps]

Yeah, whereas I remember more shelf-space for eu1 and it was even on shelves longer once it went discount (eu2 disappeared).  At any rate, it would be foolish to ignore the community of impact of eu2. That's where the name began to get known.

I had never heard of Europa Universalis when the first game came out--I can't even recall reading any reviews of it in any of the gaming magazines--but I saw it on game shelves everywhere, decided it looked interesting, and eventually bought it.  When EUII came out, I was of course aware of its release, but I had trouble finding it anywhere.

[Neil]

I just really hope PC games remain a market.

They will be for the immediate future.