How are sales going?

[bhunter2112]

Just wondering how sales are going. I see the game is ranked 4,200 something on Amazon. Not to good. Probably no real way to know. I bought my copy to help out. Have not gotten it yet. Anyone with info please share.

[furbs]

where did you get the amazon stats from?

Hopefully the sales are bad. That would do the game justice.

[Fansadox]

Originally Posted by Hecke

Hopefully the sales are bad. That would do the game justice.

Yup was thinking the same.

[yellonet]

The game works just fine and is very enjoyable to a lot of people.

If it isn't working well for you that's unfortunate, but it will become better.
And if you people are fans of flight sims you are doing yourself a disservice wishing that CloD sells badly.
And if you don't care, why are even you here?

[yellonet]

Originally Posted by bhunter2112

Just wondering how sales are going. I see the game is ranked 4,200 something on Amazon. Not to good. Probably no real way to know. I bought my copy to help out. Have not gotten it yet. Anyone with info please share.

Sales figures are usually not something that are revealed, I doubt you'd find anyone that knows and will tell you.

[Troll2k]

Clod has fallen out of the top 100 Steam games.

I do not feel that the North American release added much.Because of the delays most that wanted the game got it from UK d/l sites.Thus there were not that many left in the unbought pool to buy it when it was released.

The most I have seen at any one time on the multiplayer servers was 68 for all the servers combined.If 5% of the buyers are online players that does not bode well.

I do expect sales to keep trickling in as time goes by.The game has only been out in the West since April.

These are personal opinions and I have no facts to back up my feelings.

[yellonet]

Yes, it doesn't feel like the game has sold very much, but then again, simulations seldom do.
I believe however that as patches are released and the sim becomes more and more complete sales will start to increase.
The IL-2 fanbase should be quite large but many of them likely haven't picked up CloD yet due to either getting an (IMO false) impression that it is not an enjoyable product, or they are simply waiting for another part in the series.

[Mysticpuma]

Originally Posted by yellonet

Yes, it doesn't feel like the game has sold very much, but then again, simulations seldom do.

Sadly this type of Simulation doesn't, but "The Sims" sold really well

[NedLynch]

I feel it's a very different marketplace now than it was for the original IL2.
This combined with the rather spotty release is not a good combination, I as well here in the US was extremely on the fence about buying this sim after reading all the negative things about it, thought 1C in their niche of producing highly ambitious flight sims deserves some support, now I am more than happy I bought the game.

I have not even seen any marketing for the game here in the US. This, as I wrote is quite a niche game for people who love realistic flight sims and thus are a bit seperate from the instant gratification crowd. And those simmers are not really found in massive abundance in the marketplace. If then some of the few even willing to play a non-arcade game are put off by various bugs and issues, not always to the game's fault though, well, then you have a really, really bad start.
It seems to me if someone has a bad experience with a product they are definitely going to tell everyone, propagading the bad rep of the sim, if people are happy and have no problems with said product they might tell other people.

So it's a rough start, I have no doubt the game will very much improve over time, peformance wise and content wise, maybe UBI can at least put some marketing out there, since I believe the sim is in a very playable state right now and 1C needs not only support from the community but very much from their publisher.

Like I said, I am a happy camper, wouldn't want to miss this sim.