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John Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, 13 May 2005 18:41:27 +0200, Walter Mitty <mitticus@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>
>>John Lewis wrote:
>>
>>> Considering that my local Babbages has 15 or so lingering on the
>>
>>
>>And, of course, they keep you informed when they (shock horror) refill
>>the shelves?
>>
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>
> In my Babbages, the 15 copies of Roe are on a back shelf jammed with
> a bunch of other sub-$20 titles. Unlike the "currently hot" titles
> they are not in a front display by themselves, which would certainly
> mask any replacement. It was fairly obvious that the block of RoE had
> not been disturbed very much, and why should the store put out any
> more to take up valuable shelf space that can be occupied by oither
> titles. If you would like, next time I visit the store, I will ask the
> store manager roughly how many RoE have been sold per week
> over the past month and report back here. OK, we got a deal ??
>
> Also, since Babbages' have officially cut the price to $19.99 at least
> 2 weeks ago, they must be in an overstock/poor-sales situation.
> Babbages' is not at all noted for their generous pricing on new PC
> titles.
>
Cutting prices is not normal where you come from?? All FPS games get
slashed not too long after initial market penetration.
>
>>Where you live must be some real banjo plucking backwater - no one buys
>>Doom expansions, no one buys HL2 - both having topped sales lists elsewhere.
>
>
> In my previous posting, I think I explained how the Sales Charts that
> you see published in the weeks immediately after games come out
> are total rubbish. They do not represent NET retail sales; they
> represent only either the manufacturer's initial shipment to
> distribution or distribution's initial shipment to the retail outlets.
> Both big and small retailers gradually accumulate returned and unsold
> product and re-cycle it in batches... that takes delay-TIME. So if the
> retailer overstocks the product, as is so common with the
> heavily-marketed games... then the so-called Weekly Sales Figures
> are skewed in the same direction. Seems as if you had some trouble
> coming to grips with this simple logic. I am not the first on this
> newsgroup to explain this obvious flaw in these weekly "Instant
> Sales Charts". Go stick pins in a voodoo-doll of somebody else.
>
> I strongly suspect that when all the true sales-figures are back with
> Id, RoE will have been judged a sales-flop by them. We will never hear
*suspect*.
> the details of course, but the message will be loud and clear if Id
> generates/commissions no more PC expansion packs for Doom 3.
> Maybe I shall be proved totally wrong... and you can have a field-day
> at my expense..............
However, you will not be entitled
You see, the big difference ? I don't really care : I hope for the
developers sake that it does well - but I don't know. You, on the other
hand, are speculating based on your dislike for Doom 3 and the fact that
it kicked Far Cry's ass in the sales department. I'm merely asking you
to back up your assertions.
> to gloat should a third-party release a successful brand-new game
> based on the Doom3 ENGINE and having nothing to do with
> the Doom3 'world'.
>
> Sorry for drifting so far off the thread-topic, but Wally made me do
> it.... sob.....I could not help myself....sob...
>
How did I? I'm asking you to back up your baseless waffling : yet again
having a go at a game which you dont particularly like.
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