D3 hard to swallow facts

All the predictions here for D3 are conservative.


D3 will sell more than 5 million at the first month. And PoE will never, ever, have more active members than D3.

D3 will have at least 2 expansions priced around $40-$50. Will make a lot of money with the real money auction house fees and will get from each D3 player an average of $90 on the course of 10 years ( from the game, expansion and money transactions)

In 5 years time D3 will have reached 30million different players at least.

D3 will have more than 3m sale at first day (including pre-orders, brick stores and digital version).

Now , I do think the developers of PoE are better game designers, know more what the community wants, and deserves more than D3. But facts are facts... D3 will be a juggernaut simply by brand name and marketing.

I do prefer PoE than D3. What we as fans of PoE must do is do our part and spread the world about PoE as soon as it goes open beta. Spread trought forum, youtube, live streams, forum boards. And put our love for this game to work, otherwise this game has no chance of sucess.
Make your part!

And is futile to compare the sucess of this game with D3, because even if we all did our part and spread the word that PoE is better than D3 , we would still fall short of impossible expectations.

But remember the D3 sucess will not mean the demise of PoE, because there still much room on the Online ARPG scene, player from D3 will look for new things and a free game like PoE will atract many new players because is free.

The only thing that matters is that PoE will be considered by some (perhaps you) way better than D3.

If you are one of those, relax and enjoy.

Well put, it's very hard for a new company to make a game and get publicity.

Not really hard to swallow, and most are irrelevant in regards to PoE. You can't really compare the two games in terms of financial gain or player base. That would be like comparing the next Call of Duty to a brand-new shooter from a new studio no one's ever heard of.

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WhiteBoy88 wrote:

Not really hard to swallow, and most are irrelevant in regards to PoE. You can't really compare the two games in terms of financial gain or player base. That would be like comparing the next Call of Duty to a brand-new shooter from a new studio no one's ever heard of.

^^This

I can't understand why you are comparing the two. They are different games, if you like one, play it. If you like both, play both!

What you illustrated is simply that POE is a labor of love by a small group of dedicated fans of the genre... they will produce a game at great risk to themselves for the sake of the ARPG community.

D3 has become a labor of dollars... and it shows.

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ropumar wrote:

I do prefer PoE than D3.

Shouldn't you wait until you the games are actually complete before you draw any conclusions of which is better?

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Sickness wrote:

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ropumar wrote:

I do prefer PoE than D3.

Shouldn't you wait until you the games are actually complete before you draw any conclusions of which is better?

I prefer the design choices.

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exaltes5 wrote:

Well put, it's very hard for a new company to make a game and get publicity.

38Studio's and Big Huge Games didn't seem to have this problem with Kingdom's of Amalur: Reckoning. :)

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Axtrixis wrote:

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exaltes5 wrote:

Well put, it's very hard for a new company to make a game and get publicity.

38Studio's and Big Huge Games didn't seem to have this problem with Kingdom's of Amalur: Reckoning. :)

That's because it was made by a baseball player with his life savings and an enormous loan from the state of Rhode Island.