Salesfigures Arcanum??

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  1. Bogarona

    Bogarona New Member

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    I was wondering with all the monstersales of Warcraft 3 and other games: how well or bad did arcanum??
    How many copies where sold?? Does anybody know??
    Just curious :wink:
     
  2. wdygfy

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    I don't know actual salesfigures etc but it got rpg of the year and other awards from multiple gaming sites/mags so it had hit somewhat big
     
  3. Milo

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    Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2 type games are on a whole other level than the rest of the pack. The Sims, too for that matter.

    If I had to guess, I'd say that Arcanum has sold somewhere around 100,000 copies, maybe less. The only thing I could find on Google was this old article dated Aug 2001 that states Arcanum has sold just under 70,000 copies to date.
     
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    Arcanum sold approximately 100.000.


    Blizzard must be stinking rich :nod:
     
  6. Bogarona

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    Gee, I hope it's enough for a sequel. It's not going well with Vivendi, the owner of Sierra, so I hope Troika will survive.
     
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    From what I understand you have to sell at least 140,000 before most will even consider a sequel :eek:uch:

    I heard some companies want you to sell at least 250,000
     
  8. Milo

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    Yeah. Besides, Troika's already moved on to another project, I think. Lionheart, I think.
     
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    Vivendi owns Sierra too?
    I knew they owned Blizzard...
     
  10. Jarinor

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    What? Reflexive is making Lionheart, with Black Isle assisting or something like that. BIS is going to publish.

    But yes, Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2 are a whole other level. Selling a million copies in a week is no mean achievement. GTA3 sold something like $350 million worth of copies between the PS2 and PC worldwide, which is pretty damn fucking good. EB also estimates that 4 million pre-orders have been placed for GTA: Vice City. Yes, 4 million.
     
  11. Maniac

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    What is GTA: Vice City? Expansion? GTA 4?
     
  12. Bogarona

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    It's the expansion for GTA3, the with a lot of :minigun:
     
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    I thought it was a completely new game. :ponder: Oh well. I will have buy it anyway. :D
     
  14. Etalis Craftlord

    Etalis Craftlord New Member

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    WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG

    You can't make expansions for a Playstation or any other console game because you don't install anything.

    It's a whole new game. It takes place in a copy of Miami in the 80s.
     
  15. Jarinor

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    At least Etalis knows his gaming news :).

    Vivendi is a pretty massive company - owns Universal Studios (you know, the movie company) as well as several of the well known and more successful game studios and publishers - Sierra and Blizzard are just a couple of their companies. I don't know any more, but I do know they have them.
     
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    Actural Arcanum did all right as it is than game which does appeal to than lot
    of people anyway.
     
  17. Bogarona

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    Oops :oops: , I thought it was the multiplayer add-on for GTA3 PC version (saw it in a dutch magazine), But offcourse It's a playstion game so ít can't be add-on. Thanks for setting this right, Craftlord.

    Stupid of me, I'm just not a console gamer.
     
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