Forum Posts: 7485 | Comment #1 by Nozza x360a Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 08:39:48 AM | |
| Not my type of game but I have to admit it does look nice on the eye! |
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Forum Posts: 776 | Comment #2 by XxStuartxX 1990 Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 08:42:21 AM | |
Is 50,000 alot, these days, considering the millions of people thathave live now?
But anyway congrats to them not my kinda thing but nice to see success stories. |
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Forum Posts: 2997 | Comment #3 by tehapoc Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 08:46:53 AM | |
| @2 It's a pretty decent amount. Especially for an arcade game. |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #4 by PandaWatch Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 08:54:45 AM | |
| I just burnt my tongue... |
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Forum Posts: 239 | Comment #5 by Eazynem Makaveli Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 09:18:09 AM | |
| There are other better games to play.. |
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Forum Posts: 228 | Comment #6 by the action frampton Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 09:35:30 AM | |
| 'visually appealing' lol |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #7 by mtdaredevil Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 09:53:25 AM | |
| @2 You have to notice also that Skullgirls came out on the same week as Fez. So those are some pretty good numbers. |
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Forum Posts: 727 | Comment #8 by PANIC ATTACK 10 Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 10:00:19 AM | |
| this is why MS charges so much. people will go out & still buy it at any price. people complain about pricing. then support it by buying games/add ons at 1200pts or more. which is ridiculous. i'll wait for the pricing to drop to a reasonable price. i'm not a sheep. |
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Forum Posts: 141 | Comment #9 by shavron Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 10:14:45 AM | |
@8, That, or you know, they need to charge that to be profitable. 50,000 sales at 1200 points equates to about $750,000. Admittedly that's quite a bit of cash, but I don't know if it's enough to fund this kind of project. I mean, that's not even enough the hire 22 employees for a year, if you pay them as little as $35 a year. This thought isn't taking into consideration other development expenses such hardware, software and other basic resources. Nor does it factor in the fact that Microsoft gets a cut of each sale.
I'll fully admit that I have no idea how large the staff for this project was, nor how long it was in development for, but I'm not so narrow minded to recognize that a project like this wasn't a cheap endeavor and when the end result is only 50,000 units sold there is a good chance that they didn't break even, even if they are charging $15. |
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Forum Posts: 141 | Comment #10 by shavron Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 10:15:56 AM | |
| FUCK ME! That figure was suppose to be $35,000 a year. Why the hell do I always notice this crap right after I post it?! |
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Forum Posts: 267 | Comment #11 by macd Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 10:20:52 AM | |
@ 9/10, I was gonna be that annoying guy who pointed it out.
Given the analysis you gave it, I'd like to know what cut Microsoft take too. I know sales will still come in and there will probably be another spike later on when it hits DotW but short term, it'd be interesting to know the financial side of it. |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #12 by PandaWatch Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 10:24:55 AM | |
| Microsoft get 15 pretzels per sale. |
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Forum Posts: 15156 | Comment #13 by The Pants Party [STAFF] Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 10:27:37 AM | |
| @9: What's the deal with all that weirdo logic, buddy? We all know games are made by happy thoughts and you only need to charge five bucks to buy your entire family mansions! |
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Forum Posts: 25 | Comment #14 by MrInfliction Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 10:28:41 AM | |
| @12 F*ck yeah, pretzels!! |
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Forum Posts: 258 | Comment #15 by Pakhair Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 10:44:28 AM | |
It's a good fighting game, and for 15$ it's worth it. Believe it or not I'm one of those people who always think that majority of arcade games are over priced.
Oh and lovely fellas before jumping to conclusion how much they make, you should notice it's Japanese studio. So it's tons of money for them e.g 500,000 copies sold for any game is out of the world for their industry. |
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Forum Posts: 258 | Comment #16 by Pakhair Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 10:48:02 AM | |
| And the 500,000 figure was for AAA class Retail games, for arcade their expectations are quite less |
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Forum Posts: 727 | Comment #17 by PANIC ATTACK 10 Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 10:50:06 AM | |
@13 please grow up. if you look at the figures & knew how much it costs to make. you'd know they made back their money & then some.
@9/10 i know math & i respect what you're saying. if you knew too how much was made. now minus the cost to produce. you'd see how much profit they just made. no offense but this isnt a disc based game. so no extra costs (shipping,books,cases,extra). its a straight digital transfer. which cuts costs dramatically. so they actually made a killing on this already.
now look at the lack of stages & fighters. now compare it to fighting games out now. there is a HUGE difference in cost,developement,extra. thats why i say xbla games/add ons are over priced. remember oblivion at 1200pts? i have yet to see any content yet that stacks upto the hundreds of hours shivering isles produced. that & its digital are my grounds for this being over priced. plus its only been 10 friggin days! imagine a month/year from now. ya they're making an absured amount of money off of this already. thats not including future DLC too. which all who bought the game will buy! now think of the figures again. :) |
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Forum Posts: 590 | Comment #18 by reaper527 Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 11:25:29 AM | |
@8
agreed. i typically never spend more than 800 points on xbl content. i'll be waiting for this to go on a deal of the week
@9
don't forget, this 50,000 sales number is just the sales for the first week and a half. they will continue to make more sales. of course as everyone else has said, we have no idea how big this studio is beyond the assumption that they are small since they were founded less than 2 years ago. they might not even have 10 people for all we know. |
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Forum Posts: 12 | Comment #19 by Cashew Luu Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 11:43:54 AM | |
| Played the demo, it was boring. |
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Forum Posts: 445 | Comment #20 by MoldyClay87 Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 11:52:04 AM | |
Surprised.
The game is too much for the content you get and considering you can get tons of better fighters that have dropped to be around the same price.
It looks nice, has great references and is made by some funny people, but it just simply isn't worth $15 for what you get.
I mean, that's cool that it sold a lot, and against FEZ, but huh.
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Forum Posts: 92 | Comment #21 by Fozzy Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 11:55:06 AM | |
| I'm one of those guys who waits for Arcade games to go on Special and then buy in bulk for a rainy day, I got X-Men for example when it was 400 points on special (possibly 800 I'm not 100% certain) and haven't touched it yet, I know I'll enjoy it, but I just wanted a bargain game to play between games, unfortunately, Mass Effect 3 has taken all of my gaming time! :D |
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Forum Posts: 141 | Comment #22 by shavron Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 12:06:58 PM | |
@17 Okay, lets talk proportions. If you argue a game at $15 with eight fighters doesn't have enough fighters a $60 release with 32 characters wouldn't have enough fighters as well. So games like Dead or Alive 4, Soul Calibur IV and V and Street Fighter IV came up short here as well. I'd point out information on stages but for the life of me can't find any info on the number of stages there are.
I also hate poking more holes into your bubble, but Shivering Isles was initially 2400 points for about 30 hours of new gameplay. Granted this is still probably the greatest deal for DLC since the inception of DLC, your facts are just a bit off.
All I'm really saying with my posts is we can't assume this game was priced this way to gouge the customer. Games are not cheap to make and new IPs are often risky endeavors. I am honestly unsure if 50,000 downloads in ten days is a lot. You hear about games like Limbo hitting a million in five months, but you can be reasonably sure a huge chunk of those where right when it came out. Has the developer made back their money? Possibly. They seem excited enough, but this could just be them stoked that the game is well on it's way to making a profit. Unless one of us is an employee for them there is no way for us to tell. Regardless They deemed $15 an appropriate price tag and apparently 50,000 people thought it was acceptable. That doesn't make it price gouging. |
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Forum Posts: 5 | Comment #23 by Dr Damien G Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 12:35:16 PM | |
| Cant believe how many people paid for this ultimate spam fight. I was excited for it, downloaded the trial and realized it was nothing but button mashing. And anybody who plays it online I foresee many battles against the superspam known as peacock so have fun. |
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Forum Posts: 590 | Comment #24 by reaper527 Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 12:53:58 PM | |
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people buying something doesn't mean it isn't price gouging. just look at call of duty's map packs. they sell great, but are clearly price gouging.
(i'm not necessarily calling this game price gouging, but its definitely more than i'm personally willing to pay for it). |
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Forum Posts: 1512 | Comment #25 by yamayamayaamaa Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 03:21:40 PM | |
| 90% of the comments here prove that too many idiots have access to the internet... |
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Forum Posts: 370 | Comment #26 by Sgt Scyther Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 03:42:11 PM | |
| Good game, worth the asking price, and deserving of the high sales. |
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Forum Posts: 199 | Comment #27 by ViNyLek Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 04:03:10 PM | |
| 50K copies is a lot? In times when I hear about sales in millions that seems like you meant to be sarcastic, but forgot how to LOL If that's a success for them then all the better, but I would seriously rethink that... |
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Forum Posts: 44 | Comment #28 by Agent Mantis Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 04:43:23 PM | |
| I wanted to like it but just couldn't get into it |
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Forum Posts: 12 | Comment #29 by chaos1086 Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 05:56:16 PM | |
| if $15 is out of your price range for a whole game then you have bigger problems than video games being to expensive |
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Forum Posts: 5 | Comment #31 by ServbotNamedSxE Saturday, April 28, 2012 @ 10:46:24 AM | |
| Definetly a good game is Skullgirls! I've yet to buy it but I enjoyed the demo and have a few friends who bought it and love it. I believe it's more accessible then other fighting games out on the market right now (the tutorial is one of the best out there too!). Sure, every fighting game is bound to have the exploitable character who can spam the screen with projectiles (Saggat or Akuma in SSF4, Arakune in BB, Peacock SG, and just about every other character in MK), but there's ALWAYS a way around this and if you play enough you're bound to find it. |
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Forum Posts: 512 | Comment #33 by Arenazombie Sunday, April 29, 2012 @ 09:34:50 AM | |
@9 Thats all fine, but judging from the comments (not just this game) people seem to find the price too steap, so if they'd priced it at 800 there might have been 100.000 downloads.
Not saying this game isn't worth 15$, but I think companys should sometimes not try to borderline the maximum amount they can possibly charge and count on selling more units at a lower price. |
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Forum Posts: 578 | Comment #34 by rrushn Sunday, April 29, 2012 @ 11:36:52 AM | |
| Can't afford a luxury hobby ? Stop gaming. |
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Forum Posts: 110 | Comment #35 by OnionKnight14 Sunday, April 29, 2012 @ 01:59:05 PM | |
| congradulations skullgirls looking forward to more patches in the future |
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Forum Posts: 309 | Comment #36 by deluxnugs Sunday, April 29, 2012 @ 04:03:15 PM | |
| its funny that youll go spend 20 dollers to see the same dull ass movies but a 15 doller arcade game that can be played as much as you want is to much.i mean cmon i know most of you seen that pile avatar.im sure skullgirls is way better than that.plus its a fully hand drawn game.thats bad ass in itself. |
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Forum Posts: 169 | Comment #37 by Restricted-Access Monday, April 30, 2012 @ 12:35:22 AM | |
I don't see why people are arguing about the price. Are the full 360 games like Skyrim worth 60 bucks? It really depends on how badly you want to play the game! Sure, I wish Skyrim (or any of the other $60.00 games started 10 dollars cheaper), but the developer (or publisher) decides what a game is worth, and if it will sell for that or not.
How long a game stays at the original price is ultimately decided by US! Crappy games like Duke Nukem Forever dropped REALLY fast, because it wasn't worth what it started out at!! I think it's going for 20 bucks or less, now.
I bought Bankshot Billiards 2 a LONG time ago for 1200 MS Points. I didn't gripe about the price... I saw it, I got it! Of course, now... there are SO MANY GAMES to choose from (not to mention I have a huge library of games to play - including many I don't have all the achievements in)... I just wait until a new game I'm interested in goes on sale, or the price is reduced.
Honestly, though... if Krome Studios suddenly released a follow-up to Blade Kitten (for 1200 MS Points)... I'd be all over that like a cat on catnip! Any game that makes me laugh that much can have my money (the dialog is HILARIOUS)!! :-)
BTW... I wasn't part of that 50,000... and I won't be part of the next 50,000... I have no interest in Skullgirls, though I'm glad the developer & publisher are pleased with the sales! |
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Forum Posts: 169 | Comment #38 by Restricted-Access Monday, April 30, 2012 @ 12:36:37 AM | |
| For the record... I got Skyrim when it first came out. Great game! |
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Forum Posts: 590 | Comment #39 by reaper527 Monday, April 30, 2012 @ 11:43:23 AM | |
@37
the problem with your comparison to full retail games is that those games DO get adjusted based on how they are selling. xbla games however, do not. skull girls will be $15 today, tomorrow, a month from now, a year from now, right up until the point xb360 arcade games are discontinued (aside from isolated 1 week sales). this price is set in stone and completely unaffected by how it sells |
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