Preorder South Park the RPG for a mere $60

[Metro]

And, good news, it's Steamworks! Time for the Obsidian apologists to open up their wallets. Also in before: blame the publisher.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Best Obsidian game to date. It's pretty much Torment in the South Park setting.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

What the fuck is wrong with Steamworks? Seems good to me:

1. No need for the DVD
2. Unlimited downloads/reinstalls
3. Cloud saves
4. Automatic updates

 

[Jaesun]

Like Dungeon Siege III I'll probably pass on this one as well.... I do hope someone does a good LP.

 

[Crooked Bee]

I love Obsidian and don't mind Steam, but meh, South Park. Will wait for a Steam sale. (Unless the gameplay is exceptional, which I doubt will be the case.)

 

[Menckenstein]

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Like Dungeon Siege III I'll probably pass on this one as well.... I do hope someone does a good LP.

I reckon there'll be a demo.

 

[Brayko]

Steam sucks. South Park sucks. Obsidian is like the Codex, good shit if you're willing to dig hard enough to find it.

 

[Tigranes]

Fucking Steam, stop making your shit compulsory.

Despite being a gargantuan Obsidian fanboi I'll wait for a bit more detail, I've always found the SP show boring as hell.

 

[Metro]

is displeased.

 

[Nattvardsvin]

What is this greengaming site shit?
Shouldn't this be available on actual Steam?

 

[Metro]

Steam is pretty slow to put up preorders -- especially with titles that don't have firm enough launch dates/windows. Green Man Gaming is a fairly reputable site a la Gamer's Gate, Getgamesgo, etc. I believe they are based in the UK.

 

[likaq]

What's the point in buying this game?
Obsidian will never see any money, every penny will go to publisher.
If you want to support Obsidian wait for their kickstarter.

 

[Metro]

I guess so if they signed a contract as bad as the one they signed with Bethesda! Then again, after DS3 flopped I'm sure their leveraging power took a hit.

 

[Nattvardsvin]

Ah I see. Well, I'll need to see some gameplay of this first.
Which is pretty weird that there seem to be none yet, considering its available for pre-order.

 

[Jaesun]

I would think they have learned from that mistake. Still sitting on monies for their KS projects <3

 

[likaq]

To sign better contract you must have bargaining power. Looking at Obsidian and their layoff and flops like AP and DS 3, Kotor 2 , i'm pretty sure they bargaining power is and always was fucking small.

 

[Brayko]

Exactly. Which is why they should just do Kickstarter projects once this big Obsidian-publisher ball slows the rolling a bit.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Steam is good 'cause that means I can buy cheap keys.

 

[Gragt]

Even if they do not make money from the sales, making a game that sold well will look good on their resume.

 

[Tigranes]

Purely from investor/publisher perspective, KOTOR2 did quite well. AP obviously didn't. DS3, not sure, since it had lower sales expectations to begin with, but it's pretty safe to say it wasn't a success.

 

[Menckenstein]

DS3 was profitable. Not sure how profitable, but profitable.

 

[Jaesun]

They are taking their time to do their KS project properly. This is a good thing.

 

[Metro]

DS3 was profitable. Not sure how profitable, but profitable.

Well, I have no numbers to claim otherwise but it would surprise me seeing as how they were selling it for $5 a few months after release. Maybe it performed extremely well on its native console platform.

 

[Brayko]

The majority of Dungeon Siege fans bought it on launch I'm sure but I really have a hard time believing it was profitable considering the price drops and what it takes for something fairly big budget to be profitable these days.