How Many Copies of SEIV Gold Have Been Sold?

Slynky · #1 July 4th, 2003, 05:20 PM

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Originally posted by Ragnarok:
They also said they sold enough to where Aaron could retire right now and not have to work anymore.

But that would be bad. Very bad. That would mean no SEV. So Aaron will continue to slave for us until we have had enough.

Hehe, Rags.

However, IF there was no SE5, I think I could live with it. For 2 reasons:

I've been playing the game over 2 years, I think, and I'm having more fun now than when I started (mostly due to this community and PBW). Not sure I will get tired of it (and I haven't even played ANY of the mods ).
Not meaning to sound disrespectful, but a new Version of SE scares me that it might be "MOO'd up" (if you get my drift).

geoschmo · #2 July 4th, 2003, 06:00 PM

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Originally posted by Ragnarok:
They also said they sold enough to where Aaron could retire right now and not have to work anymore.

But that would be bad. Very bad. That would mean no SEV. So Aaron will continue to slave for us until we have had enough.

No, what they said was Aaron made enough off of it to quit his day job and work full time as a game developer. That's a far cry from not having to work anymore.

Geoschmo

oleg · #3 July 4th, 2003, 11:49 PM

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Originally posted by Slynky:
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Not meaning to sound disrespectful, but a new Version of SE scares me that it might be "MOO'd up" (if you get my drift). [QB]

There is no danger of that whatsoever !
It is still the same person doing the same job

The one and the only reason Moo3 is no Moo(1or2) is because it was no longer a Steve Barcia child !

deccan · #4 July 5th, 2003, 12:57 AM

Wow, sounds like Aaron could use some healthy competition! (MOO3 doesn't count!) How much do you think it might cost to develop a new 4x game from scratch?

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 July 5th, 2003, 02:14 AM

as an ima i mean amatuer game programmer, i can tell you that the cost of even the simplest game is not measured in money or time, but headache's. not that i've ever come very close to something the size of SE.

[ July 05, 2003, 01:15: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

Atrocities · #6 July 5th, 2003, 02:29 AM

There was a news release a year or so ago and a thread that followed about the fact that they had sold 500,000 copies or something like that. I honestly don't remember what it said.

I do everything I can to get people interested in SEIV and have been told by over 40 people that the reason they bought the game was because of me. I bought the game because it was the best 4x game out and the production quality blew me away.

Fyron · #7 July 5th, 2003, 03:18 AM

AT, it was quoted earlier in the thread.