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Mnementh on 03 January 2018

Some examples that come to mind:

game	announcement	release	sales
Duke Nukem Forever	1997	2011 (14 years later!)	> 2M
Final Fantasy XV (originally versus XIII)	2006	2016 (10 years later)	> 6.5M
Team Fortress 2	1998	2007 (9 years later)	F2P (>40M owners)
The Last Guardian (project Trico)	2008	2016 (8 years later)	> 1.2M
Zelda: Breath of the Wild	2013	2017 (4 years later)	> 5.6M so far
Star Citizen	2012	? (no firm release date yet)	1.9M backers

Seems the sales are mostly fine.

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Darashiva said:

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"especially if the developer doesn't give frequent updates on the game's progress"
You mean like Half-Life 3...
I don't think Valve could kill the hype train if they wanted to.

But yeah, I pretty much fully agree, with everything in your post.

Well, Half-Life 3 has never actually been officially announced, so it doesn't quite apply to it. But yes, there are always going to be exception. I think the biggest problem HL3 will have if it ever actually is released is that it's practically impossible for it to live up to the expectations fans have built up for it over the last 10+ years.

HL3 hasn't had a trailer, yes.
Valve has done all but officially announce the title.

It is not a title you can slap together.
All fans can really expect at this point is a title within the next ten years.

But, yeah it is an outlier; it is definitely not the norm.

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caffeinade on 03 January 2018

Mnementh said:

Some examples that come to mind:

game	announcement	release	sales
Duke Nukem Forever	1997	2011 (14 years later!)	> 2M
Final Fantasy XV (originally versus XIII)	2006	2016 (10 years later)	> 6.5M
The Last Guardian (project Trico)	2008	2016 (8 years later)	> 1.2M
Zelda: Breath of the Wild	2013	2017 (4 years later)	> 5.6M so far
Star Citizen	2012	? (no firm release date yet)	not released yet

Seems the sales are mostly fine.

Add Team Fortress 2 to that list.
Announced in 1998 and released in 2007.
I don't have firm numbers for it, since it is F2P.
44 million owners on Steam, and updates over ten years after release: is a success to me.
The game also came out on the Xbox 360 and PS3 via The Orange Box.
http://steamspy.com/app/440

Star Citizen has "sold" over 1.9 million units (1.9 million backers) as of right now.
Almost 176 million USD raised via crowd funding.
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals

Also still in development:
Dwarf Fortress, has been in development for over 15 years now.
No release date is in sight.

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Mnementh on 03 January 2018

caffeinade said:

Mnementh said:

Some examples that come to mind:

game	announcement	release	sales
Duke Nukem Forever	1997	2011 (14 years later!)	> 2M
Final Fantasy XV (originally versus XIII)	2006	2016 (10 years later)	> 6.5M
The Last Guardian (project Trico)	2008	2016 (8 years later)	> 1.2M
Zelda: Breath of the Wild	2013	2017 (4 years later)	> 5.6M so far
Star Citizen	2012	? (no firm release date yet)	not released yet

Seems the sales are mostly fine.

Add Team Fortress 2 to that list.
Announced in 1998 and released in 2007.
I don't have firm numbers for it, since it is F2P.
44 million owners on Steam, and updates over ten years after release: is a success to me.
The game also came out on the Xbox 360 and PS3 via The Orange Box.
http://steamspy.com/app/440

Star Citizen has "sold" over 1.9 million units (1.9 million backers) as of right now.
Almost 176 million USD raised via crowd funding.
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals

Also still in development:
Dwarf Fortress, has been in development for over 15 years now.
No release date is in sight.

Thanks for the hints. I see Dwarf Fortress different, as it is free (not free to play). As it is not sold there is no need for the devs to set the magical 1.0. You can see similar effects on many Open Source Projects, that need long time to reach 1.0, although they are long time already usable and used.

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Mnementh said:

caffeinade said:

Add Team Fortress 2 to that list.
Announced in 1998 and released in 2007.
I don't have firm numbers for it, since it is F2P.
44 million owners on Steam, and updates over ten years after release: is a success to me.
The game also came out on the Xbox 360 and PS3 via The Orange Box.
http://steamspy.com/app/440

Star Citizen has "sold" over 1.9 million units (1.9 million backers) as of right now.
Almost 176 million USD raised via crowd funding.
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals

Also still in development:
Dwarf Fortress, has been in development for over 15 years now.
No release date is in sight.

Thanks for the hints. I see Dwarf Fortress different, as it is free (not free to play). As it is not sold there is no need for the devs to set the magical 1.0. You can see similar effects on many Open Source Projects, that need long time to reach 1.0, although they are long time already usable and used.

I know.
I just wanted to bring it up because it is a cool project, and somewhat relevant.
I put it to the side for that reason.

The devs do take donations and have a Patreon.
https://www.patreon.com/bay12games
Watch out Star Citizen, these guys are coming for your: largest crowd funded project, title.

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konnichiwa on 03 January 2018

It helps to sell consoles but I hate it. I don't like early game announcements, I love shadowdrops and games announcements that release atleast the same year. But if it has many updates like divinity Original sin II I am also fine with it because you know what they are up to (40 updates in two years).