Draikin

problem swith hosting / domain, there's a temporary Divide here: http://s14.invisionfree.com/The_Divide/index.php? they also started a TLJ wiki: http://tljwiki.sphid.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

Umm...I can speak Hungarian, English, German...know a little Latin, little Nederlands (Holland), very little Spanish...but too less to read any French at all, sorry. Do you have a site in English/German too? (I don't even try to ask Hungarian, way less chance then to get killed by a spacecow from Mars :ph34r: ) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You should take some french lessons, it cant hurt " From the feeback i have from english visitors, it seems my writting is babelfish friendly. http://www.black-house.net is the best english fansite.

I'm the webmaster of a Dreamfall fansite, that's why

There are 9 cities in Dreamfall: Casablanca, Venise, Newport, WATI-City, Marcuria, Corasan, City of the dark people ....

it's the console manufacturer tax.

you know Volourn, those $14 millions aren't for Bioware. here's a study of the price of a game in France from 2003: PC: VAT: 16.4% Distribution: 19% Store: 32% Publisher: 12% Developer: 20.6% Console: VAT: 16.4% Distribution: 14% Store: 28.5% Royalties: 18.9% Publisher: 10% Developer: 12.2%

Usually a contract with Microsoft is not a bad contract. They gave 10$ million to DoubleFine for Psychonauts and didn't even publish it.

Sometimes those numbers are leaked :ph34r: The Halo 2 "limited" edition sold more than 2 million copies, it's an easy way to charge 10$ more In Jade Empire's case it seems it backfired since they couldn't sell them and probably had to reduce the price. Forza Motorsport also didn't sell very well, i think it's because the Xbox was dead at this point (X360 announced at E3).

I dont think they reduced the price too much. Here are the NPD numbers for USA, i dont have august because i was on holyday April XBX JADE EMPIRE LIMTED ED $5,128,764 103,446 XBX JADE EMPIRE $4,812,583 96,454 May XBX JADE EMPIRE $1,235,291 25,293 XBX JADE EMPIRE LIMTED ED $1,076,697 21,832 June XBX JADE EMPIRE $497,095 10,615 XBX JADE EMPIRE LIMTED ED $608,808 13,851 July XBX JADE EMPIRE $305,140 9,868 XBX JADE EMPIRE LIMTED ED $333,287 10,848 September XBX JADE EMPIRE $182,625 6,442 XBX JADE EMPIRE LIMTED ED $193,241 6,508 October XBX JADE EMPIRE $81,501 3286 XBX JADE EMPIRE LIMTED ED $117,107 4593 Limited: $7,457,904 161,078 (average $46.3) Normal: $7,114,235 151,958 (average $46. Total: $14,572,139 313,036 (average $46.6) For comparison, as of June 2005, Kotor2 Xbox sold 625,637 copies in the US (which is half as good as Kotor1).

I dont see how this is a proof of anything. It's a fact The Movies bombed, Activision dont even want to publish the console versions anymore. Geist is also a failure (as a game and as a product). Rare is a really large studio, Kameo probably had more than 100 developers working on it at some point, it had massive delay (it was supposed to be a Gamecube soon-after-launch game), there's no way it's profitable.

April is born on April (duh) 14th 2191, she's 18 years old in TLJ. Dreamfall takes place in 2219 so she's 28 :D You can also see Brian Westhouse in this trailer, before he jumped to Arcadia " And yeah, i agree, TLJ starts slowly but it gets very good as soon as you're on Arcadia.

your loss. April is the best lead character ever. It's great to see Crow embracing her in this trailer

Elevation merging with Take2 ? http://www.nypost.com/business/61399.htm

Daikatana is a failure as a game, i think that's why it didn't sell well. I'm sure DNF will be a success if it's good, i still have the E3 2001 trailer somewhere on my hdd :">

STALKER found a publisher because of this media blitz, it took them 15 months. Everyone talked about it because of the graphics, if they had waited mid-2006 (game release Q4-2006 or 2007) to release screenshots of an average looking game - compared to UT3 powered games, X360/PS3 games - from a relatively unknow east-european developer, who would care about it ? There are dozen east-european FPS in this case, i'm sure STALKER will sell more than them. Maybe Microsoft would have bought Interplay instead of Rareware if BIS had showed and marketted FO3/BG3 sooner, who knows ?

Is there any game that suffered from bad sales because of an early announcement ? marketting people dont understand this industry. A weekly update about the game development and a few concept art every months cant do anything but help the game.

- Ninja Gaiden Black on master ninja mode: i've logged more than 200 hours into NG but this mode was too much. - Riven: those puzzles were hard.

5-6 hours doesn't bother me if it's pure greatness like Beyond Good&Evil ... plus it's the only game my girlfriend played and finished. King Kong is short and not very good - exept the parts when you play as Kong (bad framerate in those sequences).

this was never signed since the mmo project was never approved, cant you read ? it's a copy/paste from the old http://www.interplay.com/bgate/info.html webpage, here's a screenshot: http://vrac.draikin.info/bgisbisidea.jpg you think i rewrote the page ? my english is not good enough.

good thing i archived baldur's gate website. They can say whatever they want about JE, only NWN is worse.

An alliance with the most evil person in this industry (in 1996 EA was still a good publisher, now it's an evil empire thanks to this guy), that doesn't sound good to me. The doctors never cared about games, they were just lucky Interplay gave them the d&d licence and a lot of money to make BG when they just wanted a publisher for their mmo project.

to put thing in perspective: Ragnar Tornquist - producer on Dreamfall - recently said the game will have to sell more than 500k units to be profitable. Funcom's dreamfall team is around 35 (norvegian) mans strong and the development began in 2003 (release date should be Q2 2006). I'm pretty sure JE is a sales disapointment given the marketting push they had from Microsoft. It's in the same situation as the Forza franchise: they had a bad timing for release but the press and gamers liked those games. Microsoft see them as part of Xbox identity and i'm 100% sure they will have a sequel. They know that if they sell more xbox360, they will sell more games, and to sell more consoles they need good exclusive games. ICO also sold 500k copies, most likely didn't make any money, but a sequel will be released this christmas.

my first kotor2 wallpaper: http://www.minstrum.net/vrac/kotor2.jpg

i'm already in love with this female jedi, congrats to the character designer ^_^. I really hope there isn't any fanservice in this game.

i hope they tweak the gfx engine, that was the weak point of Kotor.