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Offline General Battuta

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Our download count at the 1+ month mark
Hey folks,

We've taken a quick look at our numbers, and while they are sort of confusing, it seems like anywhere from 4500 to more than 8000 people have downloaded War in Heaven in the slightly-more-than-a-month since its release. This is better than our wildest hopes (we were hoping we'd break 1000 in our first month.)

We are tremendously grateful to everyone, and we hope we can continue to provide campaigns of this quality in the future. Moreover, we hope that people who played this campaign move on to enjoy the rest of the great work on HLP.

These kind of download numbers mean that people seem to pay some sort of attention to us. That means we'd like to support campaigns that are of equal (or greater, some would say!) quality that could use more time in the spotlight. Let us know.

EDIT: And in what is either a commentary on our good fortune or EA's bad marketing, this actually puts War in Heaven in competitive range with first month sales of notoriously under-selling professionally developed title Dead Space Extraction.

EDIT 2: Oh god, poor FreeSpace 2. It also occurred to me that if War in Heaven were to be downloaded at this rate for six months (it won't be), it would move as many copies as FreeSpace 2 did in its first six months, and - if you go with our higher range - even beat it by a fair margin. Poor Volition.  :(
« Last Edit: September 16, 2010, 01:35:49 pm by General Battuta »

 

Offline -Sara-

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Re: Our download count at the 1+ month mark
Can I stop clicking the download button now Mr. Battuta sir?  :D Joking aside, GREAT achievement. How does this compare to AoA? An even better download count for WiH?
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Offline The E

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Re: Our download count at the 1+ month mark
Well, since WiH requires AoA, we know that everyone who has WiH will also have AoA.
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Offline Kolgena

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Only 4.5k-8k?

Ungrateful internet.  :hopping:

Just kidding. Very good turnout, and I hope it increases in the coming months (especially when part 2 comes out)

 

Offline Rodo

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Re: Our download count at the 1+ month mark
Well considering it's a huge file, that amount of download is incredible.


FS community is definitely not THAT big (regarding active members), so there's got to be some word spreading reaching outsiders.
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Offline Kolgena

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Wasn't WiH Mod highlight (front page) on moddb a while ago?

That would have done it.

 

Offline Jellyfish

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That's quite a feat for a non-commercial mod, isn't it? Specially for a game as relatively unknown as FS2.
Certainly a feat, but by no means undeserved. I think you can expect this for WiH P2 and BP3, too.

How about candidating for moddb's Mod of the Year? I know it's usually taken by Valve games, but it's worth a shot.
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Offline Kolgena

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Especially after VAing is done (lol, who knows when that'll be though), I see this being an easy win for BP.

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Our download count at the 1+ month mark
That's quite a feat for a non-commercial mod, isn't it? Specially for a game as relatively unknown as FS2.
Certainly a feat, but by no means undeserved. I think you can expect this for WiH P2 and BP3, too.

How about candidating for moddb's Mod of the Year? I know it's usually taken by Valve games, but it's worth a shot.

Especially after VAing is done (lol, who knows when that'll be though), I see this being an easy win for BP.

I very much doubt it. As I understand it Mod of the Year is done by popular vote, and I don't think an FS2 mod has a shot at it. We all appreciate the thought, though!

 

Offline Topgun

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It deserves mod of the year tho.

 

Offline -Norbert-

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I even have a friend who's said he's going to buy FreeSpace 2 to play this, after I showed him some videos (mostly the audio commentaries). Though he's looking for a physical copy rather than a download.

And I agree, while it's unlikely BP will get one, it would really deserva that award. BP has everything a full game should have, even though it's "only" a mod.

 

Offline -Sara-

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When WiH 2 and Chapter 3 are released, voice acted and all. Someone should boxart it. :P
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Offline -Norbert-

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I have the suspicion that you would be involved in that, since a box of such a game just has to have pictures of the main characters somewhere on it  ;)

 

Offline Snail

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To be honest I'm wondering exactly how easy it was for most of the non-FS community members to actually get it all set up.

 

Offline The E

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One can only hope they either used the installer, or followed the install instructions.
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Offline General Battuta

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In an ideal world I would love to have an .exe installer. Or even a standalone. We looked at coding one at one point but the documentation was weird.

 

Offline Jellyfish

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It's not like making a folder in the game's directory, dumping all the .vp files there and renaming that folder to whatever it has to be renamed is rocket science.
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You'd be surprised.
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Offline General Battuta

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Re: Our download count at the 1+ month mark
It's not like making a folder in the game's directory, dumping all the .vp files there and renaming that folder to whatever it has to be renamed is rocket science.

Technically you should extract directly to the game directory as it creates a folder itself.

 

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It's not like making a folder in the game's directory, dumping all the .vp files there and renaming that folder to whatever it has to be renamed is rocket science.

Technically you should extract directly to the game directory as it creates a folder itself.

i've done the double-foldering many times, because the majority of mods i've installed DON'T automatically create their own folder.
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