Old Dominions I. reviews....!

Jasper · #1 October 29th, 2003, 02:35 AM

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Originally posted by PDF:
The game did make it to France due to a good sales performance (for its genre) and very good reviews everywhere. I hope it will sell well here, even if the target sales are rather in thousands anyway, nothing comparable with the big RTS or console games, that sell in 100,000s ...
I nevertheless hope Dom2 sells as well as GalCiv..

Out of curiosity, just how many did GalCiv sell?

PDF · #2 October 29th, 2003, 12:23 PM

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Originally posted by Jasper:

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Originally posted by PDF:
The game did make it to France due to a good sales performance (for its genre) and very good reviews everywhere. I hope it will sell well here, even if the target sales are rather in thousands anyway, nothing comparable with the big RTS or console games, that sell in 100,000s ...
I nevertheless hope Dom2 sells as well as GalCiv..

Out of curiosity, just how many did GalCiv sell?

No figures on US release sales, Stardock is secretive about this, but they stated it was "very good" ..
I hope I'll have a figure of French sales in a few months (the game is to be released in stores in November).

PhilD · #3 October 29th, 2003, 01:20 PM

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Originally posted by PDF:
Funny you mention the PC4War review of GalCiv just here : I happen to have written it ! I've just finished the strategy article for the next issue BTW , and will now make the Dom2 review !

I had more or less guessed that, since I didn't expect many other French mags to say anything about GalCiv or Dominions, especially before they were released in France. I mean, Nobilis' site seems to say GalCiv was released in French, but I have yet to see it in stores.

Me, I'm more than happy playing games in English. More often than not, the English there is better than the French in translated games, even if the original developers were German or Swedish or whatever.

Anyway - I'll probably buy the next issue of PC4War then; I keep vowing I won't buy the next issue (basically, I hate the elite-speak of the RTS pages, and don't care much for the history-nuts in the grognard pages), but in the end I've got them all...

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I nevertheless hope Dom2 sells as well as GalCiv..

The GalCiv Metaverse seems to have 3852 registered players. I don't know what proportion of the customers that represents, but it looks like quite a success.