Inability to comment on pc sales is...well that gif sums up how I feel about it.
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THQ Nordic Q5 earnings: full year sales of $596m, Op. EBIT of $93m, 80 games in dev, new AAA game by 4A Games coming
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Inability to comment on pc sales is...well that gif sums up how I feel about it.
Inability to comment on pc sales is...well that gif sums up how I feel about it.
Inability to comment on pc sales is...well that gif sums up how I feel about it.
Everything is fine.
I'm interpreting that EGS comment as an indication that the long tail is lacking, since (as Hamster Plugin pointed out) you can't exactly call the initial performance of both Satisfactory and Metro Exodus outright failures.
Metro still has DLC coming out in the near future, right? That will do some good to bringing it back in front of people's eyes.
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Don't really care for their new games but I like how they revive old gems. I'm 99% certain there's a new Timesplitters coming.
Maybe? The problem is that I would expect a significant chunk of the DLC's audience to have paid for it up front (by buying the Deluxe Edition). And even then, that won't solve EGS's lack of legs.
Wonder how this will do once it's out on Steam. I can't imagine many people wanting to pay full price next year.
From their comments it looks that game didn't "bomb" but digital sales are much much better on consoles. If we take that 95% of PC sales are digital that is not good result. And CEO specifically says that sales were stronger earlier in the year (when game was available on multiple stores).
Well, they did make the best 3d rpg ever made, Gothic 2. Legendary perhaps in europe. America never really knew about Gothic.
EGS exclusivity is hampering sales of games ? Whew who could've tell !
It's pretty telling that both of the games they flagged as a success (Metro and WWZ) performed less than consoles byba good margin despite being either PC centric IPs or genre.
And it was pretty telling that Epic had to subsidize sales by bleeding money.
It's pretty telling that both of the games they flagged as a success (Metro and WWZ) performed less than consoles byba good margin despite being either PC centric IPs or genre.
And it was pretty telling that Epic had to subsidize sales by bleeding money.
"The Group is working on content for streaming and digital subscription services."
Yep, and here it is. The real reason why they are buying 5485489343 IPs and studios.
Yep, and here it is. The real reason why they are buying 5485489343 IPs and studios.
In europe, especially in germany, they are. Gothic was awesome and huge back then.
Ouch. Hilarious. Hopefully it will serve as a good example of what not to do next time.
Gothic 1 + 2 NotR are some of the finest games ever made. Risen 1 was fantastic too. Elex was very good. But they deserve that moniker for Gothic alone.
Gothic and Gothic II are about as legendary as you can get for an open-world RPG.
At this point just do an E3 press conference, they have sooo many studios.
Many europeans like Piranha Bytes, in fact i'm not too happy about this acquisition. Loved Gothic 2, 3 and Risen.
Many europeans like Piranha Bytes, in fact i'm not too happy about this acquisition. Loved Gothic 2, 3 and Risen.
Well no shit, anyone could've seen this coming.
They're legendary in the PC RPG scene. Anyone interested in the genre heard of them.
At this point THQ Nordic could start holding E3 conferences with how many development studios and IPs they own.
They could, but that'd go against their image of a well-budgeted mid-size publisher.
These are the guys who skipped last year's E3 to watch the World Cup at home, after all.
It's going to save me a lot of time, skipping a bunch of games made by nazi and pedophile supporters. Fuck THQN.
I try not to engage in this topic as people have already made up their minds, and more power to them, but I won't standby and see a false accusation like this go uncorrected.
You wanna claim that the higher ups in charge of the people responsible for not firing the guys who hosted the AMA are Nazis and pedophile supporters, fine that's a logical conclusion to come to.
However there is zero evidence that the actual developers of the games THQ Nordic published share the same views as the people behind the AMA. Don't label them as pedophile Nazi supporters, they had no control over the matter.
By not firing and not publicly showing what actions they've taken towards members of their staff who willingly hosted an AMA, engaged with and posted on an image board with extremely graphic racism and pedophilia, it kinda does give the impression of support.
Honestly I don't believe the higher ups are actually supporters, but for the sake of making sure blame is shifted from the developers I'm playing devil's advocate. If people are gonna believe that entire development studios that had no part in the AMA share the same beliefs as the people who hosted the AMA, then it should be no surprise the people who are responsible for whether or not the hosters of the AMA are also accused of sharing those beliefs.
The logic being that if the person in charge of those who hosted the AMA didn't fire them, then that implies they either share or don't believe those beliefs are harmful.
Uh they have over 2k employees counting external devs. I wouldn't really call thq small anymore.
If continued sales on PC for Metro had been really good I'm sure there would have been comment. So I'll doubt the status of those sales. Maybe good initial sales and then plummeted?
80 upcoming games?
which one talks about 'ceasing your faggotry'?
Wow, at least this will be a nice repo of games I can skip
Piranha Bytes makes very divisive games, but their fans are diehard fans. They also typically receive at least partial funding for their games from government grants. They probably weren't in such a terrible position, but considering their recent publishing relationship with THQN, this makes sense. Unfortunately for those of us who are both PB fans and who want nothing to do with THQN.
Darksiders II is one of the best hack and slash looters out there, so that's not a bad thing in and of itself, lol
I'm super excited to own Darksiders 2 for the third time regardless of the controversy with the publisher.
THQ Nordic has definitely made a major misstep but I won't punish devs because of their idiocy. Regardless at this point I'm surprised there's still threads made about their content with how much is typically just repeating the same 10 posts from the last THQ Nordic thread.
Nordic really frustrates me as one of the few publishers picking up "mid tier" titles and trying to give them the support they deserve, and then making me feel guilty/like shit every time I support developers for it :(
THQ Nordic has definitely made a major misstep but I won't punish devs because of their idiocy. Regardless at this point I'm surprised there's still threads made about their content with how much is typically just repeating the same 10 posts from the last THQ Nordic thread.
Nordic really frustrates me as one of the few publishers picking up "mid tier" titles and trying to give them the support they deserve, and then making me feel guilty/like shit every time I support developers for it :(