Garrett
Watchdog
Jowood has released the Gothic 3 sales figures: The title has sold over 350.000 copies so far, not including the the US figures.
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I'd be surprised if the game breaks 100,000 sales in all of North America. Very surprised. It's getting no hype, publicity, or coverage at all.
Why isn't JoWood making better backup plans, asking for free help (i.e. from fans) it's very clear G3 should have been a star.
Let me make one small point about system requirements. Some of you might remember a little game developer called Origin!! It used to make a series called Ultima!! One of the things they always did with each release, was push the envelope; if you didn't have the best and latest system, you couldn't run the game!! How is this really any different? Back then, every Ultima release meant upgrading my system!! Hello!!!! Stop whining and spend a little to enhance your hobby. Good grief, in the US you complain about spending $50 for a game. Here it's usually closer to $100 and sometimes more!! Take a reality check!!
Especially considering that the entire sales total for Troika isn't much more than 350,000!Um...350,000 is a lot for a PC title (particularly since they aren't counting US figures, though it probably wouldn't add much more than 100k).