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Jeff
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How are the sales doing for this great game in North America? Will there be any chance of the sequel arriving to the North?
Post Thu Jan 31, 2002 7:10 pm
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All I know is, they got MY forty bucks, and I think it was worth every penny.

And yes, of course the sequel will come to North America. Enough people here loved the first one to make it a near-certainty.
Post Thu Jan 31, 2002 7:21 pm
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Yes perhaps, but Pirhana doesn't care how much we love there great game. All that is important to them is sales. I came across this game by accident and I had a hard time finding it in the stores. Most places had it still boxed or had it hidden being those stupid 3d shooters. What I want to know is, how are the sales going in the states and canada? If the sales are poor here, then I very much doubt we will ever see a sequel shipped to the North. I know they will make a sequel seeing as how well it did in Germany, but what about North America?
Post Thu Jan 31, 2002 7:30 pm
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I have no idea about sales, but Gothic 2 has been in development for some time. Reviews of Gothic 1 are genereally good. Yet some of reviewers should play it a little more (like gamespot ones). So nothing to worry. Get ready for Gothic 2
Post Thu Jan 31, 2002 7:37 pm
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PB isn't responsible for sales here. They are the developers. Distributor/publisher is XiCat. I can't say they did a great job with Gothic.

Please don't blame PB for the weak distribution, they have nothing to do with that.

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Post Thu Jan 31, 2002 8:12 pm
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So if sales are low, it just effects the publisher? I truly hope the sequel will be shipped abroad like the first. I don't think I could cope with the fact that someone in Germany is play a sequel to the greatest game ever made and I'm stuck with playing Quake 5
Post Thu Jan 31, 2002 8:35 pm
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Gothic 2 will be distributed WORLDWIDE by JoWood Productions.
Info about the deal between PBs mother company Phenomedia and JoWood from August 2001:
http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/news/0,10870,2804320,00.html
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And you can put trust in JoWood, they are good in what they are doing.
Post Fri Feb 01, 2002 11:17 am
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So JoWood will distribute Gothic 2...?
Only reason I ever found Gothic was that I found it as a coming game on a paper with Rally trophy.(which is published by JoWood)
Good news,hope JoWood really does distribute this time.
Not that I'm complaining too hard on Xicat,they're small and prob. don't have the cash to advertise Gothic properly.(and for them to put it all on one game is a bit too much of a gamble too)
Post Fri Feb 01, 2002 1:33 pm
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I don't know if Xicat really is to blame.
RPGs are not mainstream and especially those complex games are more for the adult gamers. No RPG will ever sell like Harry Potter with its 7 million copies. And for the latter it doesn't matter whoever is the publisher, it will be successful anyway.

BTW, the distribution in german speaking countries by Egmont Interactive was very bad.
Post Fri Feb 01, 2002 3:46 pm
 
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quote:

On 2002-02-01 09:46, Anonymous wrote:
I don't know if Xicat really is to blame.
RPGs are not mainstream and especially those complex games are more for the adult gamers. No RPG will ever sell like Harry Potter with its 7 million copies. And for the latter it doesn't matter whoever is the publisher, it will be successful anyway.

BTW, the distribution in german speaking countries by Egmont Interactive was very bad.



This was a very astute point about the whole Harry Potter thing. I agree that we can't expect RPGs to sell like hot cakes, we can just hope for quality in them.
Post Fri Feb 01, 2002 3:50 pm
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Jeff
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That link you gave me Anonymous, does not work.
Post Fri Feb 01, 2002 7:49 pm
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It works. Copy and paste the whole thing into a new window.
Post Fri Feb 01, 2002 8:07 pm
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It looks like the link didn't get fully accepted, half of it isn't part of the actual link.

Darnalak
Post Fri Feb 01, 2002 8:10 pm
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quote:

On 2002-02-01 09:46, Anonymous wrote:
I don't know if Xicat really is to blame.
RPGs are not mainstream and especially those complex games are more for the adult gamers. No RPG will ever sell like Harry Potter with its 7 million copies. And for the latter it doesn't matter whoever is the publisher, it will be successful anyway.


Yea this is how marketers and the stuffed shirts think too, but I cant understand it, I know of an entire generation that grew up on the Commodore64, Atari, ColecoVision, IntelliVision and that was 20yrs ago..and they (we) are still at it. I go to buy PC games, I see more guys walking in those aisles than in hardware stores, so I know we're still out there. The generalization that only kids play video games may have been true in the 50's 60s but not anymore. As the grpahics got better my interest in the them got even greater. All my friends with kids are STILL playing games, they just buy thier kids a PS2 or Xbox to keep them off the PC. I'll bet if there was a demographics done on PC Gamers the avg age would be a lot higher than the 9-15 bracket that marketers keep thinking of when they start planning their promotions. Without a doubt, the thing that grabbed me about Gothic was the setting...very dark, very mature. No cute sidekicks, no silly lighthearted crap here (ok ok, except Mud). We're talkin prisoners, and stealing, murdering, cursing...the grittiness of it. Very very off the mainstream beaten path.
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