Andromeda sold high but missed high
Just saw this video on the sales figures of ME:A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj6St0tbaGI His assumptions seem legit and believable to me. ME:A seem to have sold / will sell around 3-4 million ...
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There is a lot they miss with their so called 'target'.
There is things like, me alone knows about 4 or 5 people who badly wanna play this game but currently don't have a PC thst will run it - and can't afford to upgrade. We are in financially difficult times for a lot of people. Sales figures even arent always a good judge of popularity. How many right now are in the same position? Wanting the game but lacking a platform to play it on due to finaces.
Yeah, and here in my country, with political scandals happening only too often, dollar is spiking up again. If the game follows suit the variable exchange, it'll be impractical buying the thing.
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I have a feeling they really need to stall on moving games up platforms and PCs for a while, so people have a chance to catch up again or sales will drop even more. Not so many can afford the latest platforms arm. Once our current PCs in our house arent viable we wont be able to afford new ones for a while and they are a few years old now. We used to be able to keep up but uust can't right now.
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Then build your own and buy mid end stock.
Simple.. Buy a decent box, psu. cheap motherboard, ram. Decent cpu when you can. Since Cpu is everything. Gpu really isn't important. All our video cards are like ready for games in 4 years time now. When it comes to building it, buy a decent keyboard and mouse.. and you're sorted. Spread cost over time and buy only where everyone else on avg say's is good enough. Problem with video cards is they tend to stay quite high price for a long time. So buy them seperately.
They haven't even made games that can utilise most of the mid/high end cards.
As for the game.. meh.. I don't really have any issues with it.
Probably the main issue for me, is really the lack of interaction with your team, lack of customisation, lack of powers.. etc.
The bugs don't really bother me, unless they're fatals. The glitches make the game funny..
But I'm very forgiving of games now. Given up expecting professionalism from developers.
As for EA.. well besides the 2nd worst customer service on the planet.. they're owned by steam on that account. Don't really have an issue with them either, business is to make money.. if they were as bad as many people claimed.. they'd be as bankrupt as most of the companies they've bought over..
Same goes for other big publishers/devs like Blizzard, 2k etc.. As for the price of games.. they've always been dirt cheap.
Most softwares cost around £500+ for a single licence.. it's only in the last 5 yrs or so they've kinda dropped abit. WinXp cost me £700 a licence on release and people are complaining about the cost of games.. be thankful they're cheap.. the sheer cost of buying office software and multi licences for running a business are insane. Which in turn drives all your production figures up.. then your wages.. and misc million other costs.
People need to remember also, that you're not really paying for this game.. but you're also paying in advance for the development of all future games that company makes.. they don't get paid until they release it.
It isn't like farming.. and 2 crops a year.. or just having a job and getting paid monthly.. these guys are paid every 3-5 years.. mistakes like biowares.. small wonder they were bought out, stripped down.. and so on. The might make good games, but they also need to make money.
And everyone wants it cheaper.. than last time... this is why there's bugs in games on release.. why they cut corners.. the very people complaining.. are the ones who are to blame.
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We always build our own PCs. Hubby did IT in university and is also a game programmer.
We know what we are doing here BUT a decent upgrade still costs on average of 1.5k. We both have PCs so to upgrade both, 3k. New consoles when released cost around 600 to 800 and so on. May not seem like much to some but on a single income family with a kid in school etc its a lot. Then the game cost 100 for the delux edition. 89 for the normal. What im saying is.. all that money is a lot. More than many can afford. The upgrade of a single PC costs just under our entirely fortnightly household income - thats a lot, really for most families in australia and other countries. Thats with building our own.
The last time we upgraded, we got top of the range systems that still hold their own for the time being but not for much longer.. that was 6yrs or so ago not long after our daughter was born. Way before she started school. We have savings but she will be in year 3 next year, school camps and other such expenses will start to crop up. Normal things most families have to deal with. Hubs car is also getting on and will need changing etc. Its the way of life, normal, average income families are struggling to keep up now. In the past couple of years the cost of electricity has over doubled and so on. Landrates have gone up. Water rates and so forth. Spare cash a thing of the past.
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