Risen's Steam Sale Earned it's Publisher a Year's Salary in Just 3 Days

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Zkuq said:

Foamer said:

Unless you have sales figures, how do you know it didn't sell well in the first place? It's from the same developers as Gothic 3, which sold at least 350,000, and is Gothic 4 in all but name. I'd imagine the 360 version flopped big time because it was crap, but PC Risen got some good reviews and word of mouth.

Regardless, the title was discounted by 50%, and sales increased by 9000% according to this post-

"I don't know how many keys Steam had left when the big wave hit them but I reckon we had a sales increase of like 90 times the normal sales."

If VGChartz numbers are anything to go by, even bigger releases don't get that great sales. Also, like you said, this is Gothic 3 in all but name, but name is an important factor.

Let's say this game sold 200,000 during the Steam sale. That would put the sales of the whole year before it at less than 200,000 copies. Say what you want, but I call that a high estimate. 200,000 copies in a few days for a year-old, relatively unknown game? Maybe, I just don't think so.

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