Really good to hear. We need more Bioware style RPGs.
A Plague Tale: Innocence and GreedFall were commercial successes for Focus Home Interactive
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Really good to hear. We need more Bioware style RPGs.
Plague Tale looks really interesting to me. I should get around to playing that. It's tough trying to balance my backlog with new games coming out that I want to experience.
So happy for them. While I didnt enjoy A Plague Tale as much as other people, I wouldnt hesitate to recommend it.
Great news. Both games are completely deserving of their success, and Focus Home deserves a lot of props for supporting these smaller, AA, narratively-focused singleplayer games sans-microtransactions.
IIRC they announced a vague slate of 10 games in development that they're publishing-- can't wait to find out what those are!
IIRC they announced a vague slate of 10 games in development that they're publishing-- can't wait to find out what those are!
Well deserved, Greedfall is great.
That could be good or bad for Spiders, i hope it's good and they get a bigger budget from the new owner.
That could be good or bad for Spiders, i hope it's good and they get a bigger budget from the new owner.
They do? I hadn't heard anything about that. Got any links for for stories about it?
Nice, a Plague Tale was amazing!
Sadly I just couldn't get into Greedfall though, something about it just didn't take me
Sadly I just couldn't get into Greedfall though, something about it just didn't take me
Sales on Steam have been abysmal with the information we can glean (their peak concurrent was under 3,800—GreedFall was over 16,000—and it dropped like a rock on the top-sellers list).
I thought it was going to blow GreedFall out of the water. Focus must have known something we didn't, because they heavily promoted Spiders' game while the Surge 2 just sort of slipped out.
I can't explain it. Really happy for Spiders, but it's sad that Focus didn't buy into whatever their next project is going to be (at least not enough to keep them from selling to another company). I worry how it's going to affect Spiders' future games (localization and music in particular, but also budget), though I'm glad they can finally focus exclusively on making games instead of also running a business.
In this thread: game company making good games sees good sales.
In every other AAA publisher thread: why our slot machines under-performed? :(((
In every other AAA publisher thread: why our slot machines under-performed? :(((
The way I see it, Surge 2 ended up directly competing with Code Vein. Whereas GreedFall was a 3rd person Western Action-RPG in a year when the nearest "big" game like that we got was Anthem (there are smaller titles like Outward or Eternity: the last unicorn but no one really talked about them).
I really hope BigBen gives both Cyanide and Spiders good budgets, because I really like their games. But only time can tell if they will.
Really glad to see this! We need more quality RPGs and Spiders really puts their heart into their games. Sometimes the ambition can be more than their budget can handle, but it's one of the things I like about them.
Happy to read about this, haven't played GreedFall but A Plague Tale is on my GOTY list, seriously enjoyed that.
