Probably the same way the company has managed the last 20 years. You also need to factor in all the existing licensing deals they have in place.
What kind of sales numbers can ED expect to see?
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Probably the same way the company has managed the last 20 years. You also need to factor in all the existing licensing deals they have in place.
Long term evolution
I think the idea is for a very progressive roll out, so that the universe can expand and become more interactive and complex as a system... perhaps, like notches of applied reverse entropy.
The idea, I would like to think, would be to have a game that is playable for the next 30 years, where people can play their 2-5 hours a week or 2-5 hours a day and still enjoy it.
As P2P becomes better engineered, the running costs could be offloaded to guilds, alliances, planets, stations or even wealthy/enthusiastic players.
In terms of the big bang, we may be past the inflation stages - but we are barely into generating background microwave radiation.
(De-ris: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_universe#mediaviewer/File:History_of_the_Universe.svg )
So the sales will be constant, I would hope, in line with a never-ending game.
I think the idea is for a very progressive roll out, so that the universe can expand and become more interactive and complex as a system... perhaps, like notches of applied reverse entropy.
The idea, I would like to think, would be to have a game that is playable for the next 30 years, where people can play their 2-5 hours a week or 2-5 hours a day and still enjoy it.
As P2P becomes better engineered, the running costs could be offloaded to guilds, alliances, planets, stations or even wealthy/enthusiastic players.
In terms of the big bang, we may be past the inflation stages - but we are barely into generating background microwave radiation.
(De-ris: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_universe#mediaviewer/File:History_of_the_Universe.svg )
So the sales will be constant, I would hope, in line with a never-ending game.
Agreed i noticed that too
Hopefully Frontier recognised that too and ramp up the Rift support as good as possible
It surely gives a lot of publicity
Ramireza
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Today someone wrote in this forum that ED had a budget of 8 mio pounds, thats about 13 mio $. I am pretty sure the timeframe for this budget ends with 2014, because ED constantly say that they will release the game this year.
If you substract the KS and Beta Backers ED needs AT LEAST sell 160.000 units to break even. (50USD / copy)
If you substract the KS and Beta Backers ED needs AT LEAST sell 160.000 units to break even. (50USD / copy)
Telegraph new article about classic Elite anniversary has factual numbers about how much ED cost to develop
http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=37095
In nutshell they will recoup costs with ease.
http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=37095
In nutshell they will recoup costs with ease.
Not really. 85k copies will do - FD has now at least 5M from crowdfunding and preoders at this point. So that leaves recoup costs for 3M.
I expect FD to have collected at least 6M at the time to release.
Ramireza
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6 mio copies at release??!
I mean, even AAA Games like Bioshock Infinite or Tomb Raider didnt sold that many copies... AT ALL.
No, i cant believe this, sorry. It would be great yes, but i expect 250k - 500k at Release and maybe 1 - 2 millions after 18 month (If Frontier release it on steam).
EDIT : Well, i read again and i am pretty sure you ment 6 mio dollars, right?
I meant 6M pounds, and what I meant that this will be a sum they will have already when retail release lands.
why does it matter ? game is close to release anyway, the KS budget is probably long gone so if they will release in September and sell 30-50K more copies there even is a bit of profit to pay back the investors and everyone will be happy.
then the Microtransactions can pay for a 2016/17 expansion.
But they should not only sell ship skins, but also Premium Weapons, Premium Ammo, different Boosts etc.
best option after release would be to give away the basic game for free but let people pay money for ingame stuff and unlocks, docking passes, etc.
there should also be a Premium currency available in the store that buys special items you can only get with Premium currency, maybe a premium mining drill that gives x% better chance for finding something than a standard drill
Bah, that would be terrible--I don't want even a whiff of "play to win." Microtransactions for purely cosmetic items, fine.
MICHAEL ! How many copies you have planned for the first year ?
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not sure if sarcasm
Hello they said the Genre was dead then Chris Roberts came along how many Money has he ATM via Crowdfunding gotten ? 52 Mio$
Dont forget all old Elite/XWING/Schleichfahrt(Aquanox)/Wing Commander Fans are now around the Age of 37 to 60 and they have the Money!!
Not counting the younger Player who never saw a real Atari 2600 Joystick
weird thing happened apparently i got one of my post redacted. because i went off on a hipster who said it would be cool if not that many copies were sold of the game so it wouldn't be "mainstream". i told him some mean stuff. sorry.
but i stay with my commitment to saying i hope millions of copies are sold so more developments in this game would happen.
and to the moderator who ever it was that redacted my post on protecting Elite.....are you ok? why are you protecting the dude that could diminish your game?
what a strange forum.
anyways excuse me while i tattoo elite on my body somewhere.
yeah this guy does'nt know how demand and supply works don't try convincing him.
all i know is that all my friends bought the game the first second that it may become a GTA in space.
but i stay with my commitment to saying i hope millions of copies are sold so more developments in this game would happen.
and to the moderator who ever it was that redacted my post on protecting Elite.....are you ok? why are you protecting the dude that could diminish your game?
what a strange forum.
anyways excuse me while i tattoo elite on my body somewhere.
yeah this guy does'nt know how demand and supply works don't try convincing him.
all i know is that all my friends bought the game the first second that it may become a GTA in space.
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I agree; (a little) exclusivity is fine by me. Nothing that is truly detrimental to sales success...
Ramireza
Banned
You believe that a person who was honored by the Queen, is going to content himself with 1 or 2 million copies ? Let us be serious
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