Old Dominions I. reviews....!

[johan osterman]

Originally posted by Pocus:
I stand confused then, if the figures some of you (IW or Shrapnel, dont quite remember) gave are roughly exact (one thousand copies sold, more or less), I dont really understand how so few players (amongst ~ 200.000) were interested in playing the first opus. Perhaps the reviews emphasized on the graphical aspect or the interface, and not on the deep gameplay.

Whats more there is still a bunch of grognards still buying games, so? do they read main stream mags like CG ?

Hope doms II will perform far far better (you too I suppose).

The Online Version of the CG Online review is available from a link available at the illwinter site, it is a fair review, stresses that the game has not so good graphics but deep and detailed gameplay.

The sales of dominions rose noticeably when the reviews appeared, especially the first one in CGW. But the relative lack of sales even after the game got good grades by independent reviewers in big offline magazines has made me somewhat skeptical to claims that advertising would have significantly boosted sales figures, especially considering the cost of an add in one of those magazines, or one of comparable size. The 'problem' seems to lie elswhere.

[ October 20, 2003, 19:02: Message edited by: johan osterman ]