I recently got my sales numbers for the month of October and they weren’t good. To make matters worse, my publisher told me they miscalculated my sales revenue for the month of September – actual revenue was 40% lower than they had originally reported last month.
I had really hoped that sales would stay stable or increase as I added more and more to the game. I was hoping to buck the typical game trend where sales peak on release and then follows a month-to-month decline every month thereafter (with occasional upticks due to sales).
I left off the actual dollar amounts, but this is what the domestic sales revenue looks like for the past year (we have foreign contracts, too, but I left them off since they are short-term income). Hopefully, sales will pickup in the coming Christmas season.
Brit
There must have been thousands and thousands of Empire Deluxe players back then. Killer Bee software came out with an enhanced edition as well. Empires of Steel is the ultimate version of those games. I wonder how many of those players are aware that your game is the big daddy of them all (in my opinion). Greg
> There must have been thousands and thousands of Empire Deluxe players back then.
You mean “back in the day”? Empire Deluxe had lots of players back then, but I don’t know how much they’re around anymore.
Yeah, I know that Killer Bee software had come out with updated versions of the game. I don’t know how well he’s doing or how many players they have. I haven’t gone over to the forums, and felt bad about personally posting on his site and “stealing” his customers away – even though I’m sure they’d be interested in the game.
Okay, I took another look at the KillerBee site to see how active it was. He shut down the forums because he was getting too much spam. He suggested two yahoo groups as the main discussion area, but they’re pretty dead, too. One group had it’s last post three and a half months ago. The other yahoo group had five posts in October and none in November. It looks like the last patch for Empire Deluxe Enhanced came out at the end of 2007.