DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

[David Champion]

I get this Email and it's nice to see what's new and how well they are doing, I care about it :), but some may not, but a few interesting things I did see as I scanned the PDF is something about a release for 2 Unnamed titles for this year from EA/Dice for PC and BF2 Deluxe (proly' a Battlechest), neat.
What exactly is H1 and H2, never seen it done in "halves" (At least that's what I think it means), i've only seen it in quarters. Anywho heres the file - Source and if you can't get there from here for some reason head via this route http://global.dice.se/

[DemonOfhatred]

Re: DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

Damn some of it sounds like good news. However the part of ea merging with dice I want dice to be alone and not have ea meddle with what they do. Ea is just a how shall I say? Medic whore of the pc gaming industry.

[Scinto]

Re: DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

must be halves id assume they arent totally sure when the release would be thus having it as a H1/H2 giving them 6months leway

[David Champion]

Re: DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

Damn some of it sounds like good news. However the part of ea merging with dice I want dice to be alone and not have ea meddle with what they do. Ea is just a how shall I say? Medic whore of the pc gaming industry.

I think they already merged :), awhile back, just an FYI

[jdrou]

Re: DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

I think they already merged :), awhile back, just an FYI

EA has owned over 60% of DICE since Jan 2005; the actual merger was only announced two months ago according to the report.

[Crampas]

Re: DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

Wow, i was looking for info about total BF2 sales. Great find, champ!

So there is this Table on page 3 (Total sales)
Battlefield 2----------2'090'000
Special Forces---------750'000
Euro Forces------------130'000

OK, these numbers tell me that the marketing of BF2 expansions, hopefully will be changed.
IF i was to make a prediction about the sales of AF i'd say 10'900 lol, following the trend of loosing the majority of customers with each expansion/booster.
My community experience tells me AF will sell above 100'000 copies because it looks better than EF.

Anyway, that's just speculations.

[Pentimento]

Re: DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

WOW. EF netted 1.3 million bucks? I bet they lost money on it. think of the researchers, artists, programmers, testers, and all of the work they had to put in keeping their distribution system working on that first day just to get those sales.... and the support team.

[Crampas]

Re: DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

Of course they saved some money with not having to press CDs and not sharing profits with the big North American game distributors.
They also don't need to worry about copy protection, which is the biggest problem of Game Developers, i believe.

There must be a way of online game distribution, but not Booster Pack style... and not steam loader.

[imported_Wreck]

Re: DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

So from that report I see battlefield 1942 including all expansions and misc. packaging setups sold 4,300,000.

I don't think BF2 will hit this mark.

[Crampas]

Re: DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

Yes, it will. I tried a few mods and i can tell you this, Armored Fury will never sell more than 11'000 "copies", but that's a good thing. The core game will sell more in the future.

How do I know? - You might ask. Because i just tried some mods.

Operation Peace Keeper --- wow, very nice --- cool maps, nice models, realism

http://www.opkmod.de

US Intervention ----------- it's awesome ----- vehicles, A-10, Bradleys, Zoom for chopper gunner and tanks.

http://www.totalbf2.com/

http://files.filefront.com/usi_01_cl.../fileinfo.html

[Drevor]

Re: DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

Untitled PC, PS3, Xbox 360, PSP* FPS 2007
Untitled PC, PS3, Xbox 360 Action 2007

a FPS on the PSP? I cant get used to console FPS .. but handheld? If it where the other way around (Action->PSP; FPS->nonPSP) I would say "MidtownMadness4" and a BF2142 expansion pack .. on the other hand .. there are enough racing games out there, so they might have droped that title completely....

[imported_Wreck]

Re: DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

Yes, it will.

With 2142 coming out BF2 and packs will not sell 1.3million more copies. In my opinion it's official that more people will buy a WWII based battlefield game than modern.

Listen to your numbers EA and release another WWII based battlefield game.

[Crampas]

Re: DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

The funny thing is, that the most popular BF 1942 mod has been modern - DC.
It might be just vice versa for BF2 and (?), FH maybe.
High hardware requirements are still a big turn off. But the expansion sold better... than Road to Rome.

[David Champion]

Re: DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

EF sold 130,000! Holy crap thats great, didn't see that coming. No wonder they are excited about putting out AF...

NO advertising
NO Boxes
NO cd or CD cases
NO shipping to everyone etc...

They made a killing on that.

[Crampas]

Re: DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

EF was sold in Boxes in countries, which commonly use safer payment methods than credit card.
There were boxes, but they contained only the dowload code and no cd.