How much has Arcanum really sold?

Wrong .
It did cover their expenses.

It sold mayby 70 K to USA and mayby 70 K to other countries.

 

I dont think they advertised it well. I mean I never heard of it until a friend told me about it. He just stumbled across it at BestBuy.

 

While I read several game magizines on an infrequent bassis, I first heard of the game from a review in the New York Times. Victorian setting, magic & tech, alignment based on your actions, & an admision by the reviewer (who has seen every game printed on his desk) that he was hooked made me rush right out & buy it. It was far from brand new at that point.

 

The Arcanum trailer was unbelivably dumb - showing almost all the cutscenes from the game with hardly any frames of actual gameplay.

Of course there's also this little thing called piracy...

 

Is there a site to download this trailer.

 

I read somewhere where there was over 200K copies sold. Not a bad figure but not a great one either.

 

When I bought Arcanum, it was still arouund $50 or so. How long a span did that 200k account for? Is it the TOTAL so far? If so, maybe 100K or so sold for $50, 50K-75K or so for $30-$40, and probably 25K or so for $20.

 

Ah, it was about a year ago when I read that figure.

 

I bought Arcanum 2 yrs ago and I beleive that it was still $40 (maybe $50) but that was a WAL-MART price

 

I just bought the game new for $6, well $5.99.

 

Sierra didnt advertise it well. My friend introduced this game to me and i was surprised that the game is so great but i have never heard of it before. And Arcanum is in my opinion better than Diabolo but more people have played D2 than Arcanum. I think trailers and ad really help a game to be popular

 

I never heard about the game till I came across it at K-Mart. Got it for X-Mas.

P.S. Did you notice that this topic was old?

 

Sorry, i didnt look at the date posted