{"id":136,"date":"2008-11-18T16:48:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T16:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2008-11-18T16:50:11","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T16:50:11","slug":"thoughts-about-sales-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2008\/11\/18\/thoughts-about-sales-volume\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts about sales volume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was on holiday, i was flying over some big city, looking down at all the tens of thousands of buildings, and thinking\u00a0 &#8220;This is just one city, in one state, in one country, in one part of the world, and yet if I could sell a game to just one person in every street in this city, I&#8217;d be doing much better than I am&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s not as easy as that. But That&#8217;s how I think. I hear that Fable II sold 800,000 copies last month. That&#8217;s pretty awesome, and that&#8217;s at a higher price, and just one month. Surely overall, the game will shift 1.5 million copies, maybe 3 million in total. Equating it to copies of Kudos 2, it&#8217;s like maybe 5 million copies. (<em>huge congrats to everyone I know back at LH working on that game btw<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lancashire\/lifestyle\/games_room\/2004\/fable\/images\/fable2_400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now obviously I haven&#8217;t sold 5 million copies, and obviously I only need to sell maybe half of one percent of Fables II&#8217;s sales to make the same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/r\/returnoninvestment.asp\">ROI<\/a> (which would be very nice) , given that it&#8217;s mainly just me. But even taking this into account, it occurs to me that it would be entirely feasible to sell double or four times the number of copies I&#8217;ve sold so far.<\/p>\n<p>Some people assume I sell hardly any copies of my games. A lot of the people who admitted to piracy who emailed me gave me helpful hints on how to sell a few copies a month if I did X. Thanks guys! Some other people assume I sell a LOT more than I do. These tend to be people who see my games on sites like Stardock and yahoo, and assume all games on such platforms make people rich. My Mother is convinced I drive a Ferrari, because I gave her a boxed copy of one of my games. All things that get into shops make people rich according to her. (no they don&#8217;t).<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m curious. How many copies of Kudos 2 do you think I&#8217;ve sold so far? How many copies of Democracy 2? (It&#8217;s been out a year).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was on holiday, i was flying over some big city, looking down at all the tens of thousands of buildings, and thinking\u00a0 &#8220;This is just one city, in one state, in one country, in one part of the world, and yet if I could sell a game to just one person in every<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Thoughts about sales volume<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2008\/11\/18\/thoughts-about-sales-volume\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[97,16,96],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-money","tag-sales","tag-sales-figures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}