Paradox Interactive must be really proud these days as it has published two of the best selling titles of these past months. And as Paradox’s CEO Fredrik Wester claimed, these two titles have generated 18.5 million dollars in the past three weeks, thus making them their fastest selling games.
“It’s great fun. Hadn’t Cities: Skylines already broken all our records, then Pillars of Eternity certainly would have. One can certainly say this has been a crazy March” said Fredrik Wester and continued:
“For us the deal with Obsidian is about a long-term commitment. It’s a prestigious assignment with a studio we’ve long wanted to work with. And I think we’ve shown that we’ve coped with the task well. I do profit off of this, but it obviously isn’t anywhere near the earnings we’ve gotten from Cities: Skylines. On the other hand, profit was never the main point: this shows that we have the competence to publish really big game titles in the genres we work with.”
This is definitely good news for all PC gamers (and small development studios) as the commercial success of both Cities: Skylines and Pillars of Eternity shows how versatile the PC platform actually is. Not only that, but their success also proves that such ‘niche’ games can be successful (provided the developers are given freedom to create what they really want).
Kudos to Swedish website ‘IDG‘ for reporting the news and Reddit’s member ‘Meneth‘ for properly translating the story.
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This great news. I’m having a great time with Pillars of Eternity. I haven’t had such feelings even i’d played other triple AAA titles.
AAA series are for snobs,you know: console boyz,iphone boyz etc.
These games are for the real PC gamers,who still buy some expensive hardware and indie games. 😀
Both Pillars and Cities are most definitely worth buying. Good job PC gamers.
So is the harmless joke gonna be removed?
But but but people were offended. You can only make write a joke about white Americans. Otherwise you are a racist. Didn’t you know that? /s
What pisses me the most about sjws and the gaming press is that they claim they are for diversity but will bash a japanesse or a easten european game for not been on the same book as their “progressive” san francisco ideals.
How can you be diverse when you dont accept anyone else culture or opinions aside from yours? I am amazed that these people even have social lifes, maybe because they are all hipsters with the same echochamber ideas and they attack anyone who steps out of line.
But hey remember, going to your boss and demanding to delete things or get fired is not censorship.
I have talked with folks from eastern europe that went through communism and middle east that went through fascism and they cant believe how stupid those first world morons are with their first world “triggers”
But hey when witcher 3 and MGSV come out those offendatrons are gonna suffer some serious butthurt.
i also like how they change definitions of worlds or pull up victim statistcs out of nowhere or come up with new words and the sad thing is they teach these trash in universities.
but but… 90% of pc gamers are pirates.IN YOUR FACE UBISHIT
those games arnt $60 .and poor ports.yes they are pirated as well
90% of pc gamers are pirates lol
I’m really happy for this, bought cities and will get pillars too.
Don’t just talk, just give them money, so they can make the sequel bigger and better.
EDIT:
Devs are so selfish. Most of them start on PC and use PC gamers to become famous. Then they sign deals with Sony and M$, to develop primarily for consoles. Few years later, they come close to being bankrupt, then they ask for PC gamers’ money to make new games and get back on their feet. I think PC community is the most loyal community out there. They always support PC centric titles and play them for years to come. Console gamers always move on to the next big thing, even if it’s cra*p.
Dont talk about chinese room, they are just poor indie devs looking for fast money.
thats because of twitch streamers is why.its because of twitch now or days that seams to determine if a game sells or not. devs need to be caerful and not let twitch streamers stream their game ahead of time .if a streamer doesnt like it thousands of people wont wither but it does work the other way to