SEIV dying?

Atrocities · #1 December 20th, 2002, 02:43 AM

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Then consider that the posters and lurkers together are only a fraction of the total that play SE IV. Shrapnel recently announced that SE IV had hit $500,000 in sales, which implies over 12,000 units sold, while the total registered members for all of the forums is still under 4,000 (AFAIK).

I think it was 500,000 in sales of the game, not actuall profit. I could be wrong though.

disabled · #2 December 20th, 2002, 06:54 AM

I love DO more than SE at this point, it's a nice excursion from being an evil despot!

[ May 05, 2003, 16:10: Message edited by: Iggiboo ]

Tenryu · #3 December 20th, 2002, 07:24 AM

I expect there are many people that love the game and drop in regularly to see what's up, but rarely post. That's been my MO recently. Too busy to do much else for past year or so.

Graeme Dice · #4 December 20th, 2002, 07:41 AM

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Originally posted by Pax:
Here's a better anecdote for folks: Stars!

The thing was written for Windows 3.11 ... and it still has an active community, including a newsgroup and "AutoHost" (akin to PBW, but not as nice looking, nor as useful in general).

And Stars! isn't even moddable!!

I can do one better. VGA planets is still around, and its newsgroup opened on Jan. 15, 1993.

StarJack · #5 December 20th, 2002, 07:46 AM

Just to re-enforce what some others have said, I too, am usually too busy to do much other than quickly browse the forum. I drop in to find answers to a new question, or remind myself of an answer to something I'd forgotten (age'll do that to you!).
I'd rather be playing

The only reason I stopped playing MOO II recently was because of the sweet surprise of finding SEIV. I'll probably break off from SEIV to play MOO III awhile, but I'm sure I'll be back to SEIV again and again. The only reason SEIV will leave my hard drive, or my next computers hard drive, is because SEV has been released

Kamog · #6 December 20th, 2002, 08:59 AM

Hmmm, I haven't particularly noticed that the volume of Posts have dropped way off lately... or maybe it's all those OT threads and polls skewing the numbers.

PvK · #7 December 20th, 2002, 09:41 AM

Bah. If you like a game, and care about it's perceived popularity level on forums, and even equate that with the game being "alive" or not, then I suggest not posting threads with titles like this.

I'd say it's pretty clear that if you ever want to play SE4 by PBEM, you'll be able to find a game for many years to come, even after SE5 comes out. After all, you can still find SE3 PBEM games, and SE4 pre-Gold PBEM games.

The main "danger" to SE4, it seems to me, will be SE5.

PvK