Johan -> RE: Pricing (4/19/2013 7:21:35 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Iain McNeil the games are both good but the business model just was not appropriate. These detailed games are never going to sell to a mass market, but they do make money. They have their niche and this is where they need to stay. In their niche they can command reasonable price that makes development sustainable and profitable. They do not need to sell 10,000 units in 3 months to break even. The size of a market is not entirely depending on the detail of the game. Victoria 2 is arguably as detailed as Pride of Nations, but had better interface & better performance. This gave it better reviews, and sales numbers at about 20 times what PoN has had. The median time played for Pride of Nations was 1 hour & 13 minutes in total. Victoria 2 had 13 hours & 12 minutes. I'm 100% convinced that Pride of Nations, with a good interface design, and running on an engine that does not stall for 2 minutes at the end of a turn, would sell far far better than it did. quote:
ORIGINAL: Iain McNeil The tail is much much longer on these games and 2-5 years on you can still get significant revenues if you keep faith, support them and don't heavily discount Good games that have good replayability always have a very good tail. Heavy discounts bring in new players, and then those buy more and more. All our old strategygames that people play still sell very good for us. As a comparison, HoI3, the most detailed game we ever published, which was released almost 4 years ago, gave us more revenue (on the basegame at 9.99$) in the last month than the total amount of money we ever got on Rise of Prussia. quote:
ORIGINAL: Iain McNeil Paradox has slowly drifted out of the strategy games market and is now targeting the mainstream with games like Magicka which has been a great success for you guys. The business model that suits this move just doesn't fit these detailed strategy games very well. Actually, we have done strategygames before and after Magicka that has not been that far off in revenue. All while doing discounts to bring in new customers. We are still doing insanely detailed strategygames. quote:
ORIGINAL: Iain McNeil Good luck and hope it all goes well for you! I hope everything goes fine with you guys as well.. and I am very happy Philippe & Philippe are still in the industry.. I like them alot.
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