Why this game is so low in sales ranking?

[Jinix the Elder]

Americans have to be told over and over again before they will trust enough to buy a product because they are used to buying crap which means advertising for a product must be constant in all media, at all tradeshows and hyped on cable's pc shows. They will believe it must be good if they are told enough times.

But advertising to a mass market to gain maximum sales costs millions of dollars to do and a company must be capitalized enough to brush it off and afford the losses if it turns out to be a dud.

King's Bounty - The Legend will have a great long term legacy amoung pc gamers like 10 year old Thief series does. The owners of that game went bankrupt because the company done more than they could afford to do and yet the game still has a huge fan attraction. New mods are released constantly and fans are begging for more.

It really doesn't matter if the game reaches number 1 or even number 25 in the 'charts' it all depends on whether the developers make enough to pay for the work they do and get a nice bonus at Christmas time.

Get busy on a worthwhile expansion to the game King's Bounty - The Legend, and release a decent editor with the expansion. Sell both, the expansion and the editor together for $30 on your buy & download website. Keep the interest - keep the customer.

Jinix the Elder

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[ArgMyLeg]

they really need some promotion to the game, and reviews from more sites like gamespot and 1up. It shouldnt cost too much to do a decent web promotion on a few high traffic sites like penny arcade, gamespot.... maybe megatokyo or some other webcomic idealy about games

[malcolmm]

One reason why it isn't selling in Canada is that it doesn't appear to be available anywhere. I've tried Future shop, Best Buy and Electronics Boutique, none had it.

The guy I talked to at ElBo said they had quite a few calls about the game. They wouldn't let me order it, even though it was in their ordering system. So no surprise why it isn't selling - people are interested in it but can't buy it.

Unless I can buy the boxed version, I don't think I will buy it. Does anyone know of a retailer who has it in Canada (Vancouver preferably)?

[malcolmm]

I finally managed to track down a copy at the second Electronics Boutique I checked (after waiting weeks after the release date).

Future Shop and Best Buy, our main game retailers still don't stock it.

[Roman]

I bought a copy at Gamespot yesterday. It was the last (or only?) copy they had! This game is definitely not getting the publicity it deserves.

[Stever717]

I just got my latest copy of PC GAMER magazine there not one word about King's Bounty . I lost a lot of respect for them for not covering KB, seems they only cover games that buy advertisment in their magazine. I am writing a letter to ask why this is so. Feel free to express how you feel to them also.

Have to give props to Circuit City , they are the only big box store that has KB on the shelf.

[NelsMonsterX]

Originally Posted by Stever717

I just got my latest copy of PC GAMER magazine there not one word about King's Bounty . I lost a lot of respect for them for not covering KB, seems they only cover games that buy advertisment in their magazine. I am writing a letter to ask why this is so. Feel free to express how you feel to them also.

Yes, but Desslock has done a preview of the game in a previous issue and it's been one of his "5 games I'm playing" for two months. Also, if you read the blurb on the last page about the next issue, it sounds like the review will be in there. It'll be the Holiday issue too, which may be a good place to have a review of KB.