▲ 184 ▼ RPG devs stopped making games like Baldur's Gate 'because retailers told us no one wanted to buy them', says New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity director Josh Sawyer (www.pcgamer.com) submitted 1 year ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca 26 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 90 points 1 year ago (1 child) Imagine listening to retailers over customers. permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 66 points 1 year ago At the time, retailers were the customers. Before online storefronts took off, there was no way to sell one copy to Alice, one copy to Bob… you had to sell 50,000 copies to Best Buy with a promise to buy them back in a year if they don’t sell out. If they tell you up front, “we won’t buy that”, what are you gonna do? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 66 points 1 year ago At the time, retailers were the customers. Before online storefronts took off, there was no way to sell one copy to Alice, one copy to Bob… you had to sell 50,000 copies to Best Buy with a promise to buy them back in a year if they don’t sell out. If they tell you up front, “we won’t buy that”, what are you gonna do? permalink fedilink source parent