Are sales meeting expectations?

[Gibsonm]

Not after any “commercial in confidence” information but is the product selling like you thought it would (with obvious implications for SB2 developement)?

By now I guess all the back orders have shipped (to the keen ones, like me, who put their money up early) and “live” orders are now coming in.

Again not interested in statements like “we shipped X units” (unless you want to make that public) but more a qualitative statement like “better than hoped” “on track” or whatever.

[TopKick]

I heard that they sold 20 copies so far.

[Gibsonm]

Well if they sold 20 and you and I have one each then the other 18 are certainly generating a sh*tload of posts! :P

[Blackmuzzle]

If they really only sold 20, then we need to roll the advertising drum some more. Do you think we should submit some vids to Fileplanet and hype "that new tank sim where tracked things are more fun than those in BF2" ? ;)

[Ssnake]

No, please don't.
We don't want to deal with disappointed teenagers looking for Quake on Tracks.

[Ssnake]

Not after any “commercial in confidence” information but is the product selling like you thought it would (with obvious implications for SB2 developement)?
We're happy, but even if not that wouldn't influence much our plans towards SB2. While being similar, the two products are aiming at completely different markets, so the (sales) performance of one is of limited relevance for the other.

[Blackmuzzle]

Don't worry, it's not like Fileplanet ever hosted something that was not endorsed by some large game company...

But seriously, don't you think that there is quite a large part of your primary target audience (i.e. not the kids who'd mistaken this for a new version of "ThinkTanks") who don't know a thing about your product?

[Ssnake]

I'm pretty sure that word of mouth propaganda is going to do the trick for us. People with an interest in the subject matter are going to find us. :)

[cobrabase]

I'm pretty sure that word of mouth propaganda is going to do the trick for us. People with an interest in the subject matter are going to find us. :)

Don't worry... 125 students at my school know all about it!

[LZ_Xray]

I'm pretty sure that word of mouth propaganda is going to do the trick for us. People with an interest in the subject matter are going to find us. :)

Damn, I hope so. I don't want you to fold - I am looking forward to SB Pro PE 2! ;)

[Redtail]

I totally agree with Snake, most teenagers are more into fps..they don't really like to spend a lot of time learning. In which if they get disappointed they'll tell their friends how disappointed they are, giving sb a bad publicity.

[12Alfa]

I just got I think 23 people (FTX) last weekend hook on the sim also.

[Banshee-66]

:roll: I could just hear it if some FPS teenager got a hold of this simulation........

"I don't give a &@#$ if they have been playing this game for 6 @#$%en years or they are in the military in real life. I've been playing these kind of games forever and I should be able to beat all the other players!!!! Waaa where is my "I win button?!?!?!?" "

I've heard it way too many times playing MMOs. Most of those players don't want to learn anything, they just want to jump into the game, blow stuff up and have everything handed to them.
I really don't want to hear it or see that kind of stuff here.

[Blackmuzzle]

Careful there - keeping the flood of inane morons out is one thing (just try to play JointOps on a public server these days and watch them hop into a tank, alone, drive towards the enemy, get killed, respawn, and do the same thing again...)

Elitism, on the other hand, also isn't healthy.

[mbv]

I managed to get some of the guys on the wargamer.com forums interested. At least one of them has ordered and others probably will. Even the guys on the T-72 BoF forums are showing interest, or have already bought it.

[SandMan]

I'm working on a few guys that are in my AA clan, trying to get them to look this way too, as most of them are older and not little teens looking for headshoots I should get 3 or 4 to buy, but I really wish my copy would get here already ;)

[TopKick]

Erlangen huh? Been there, done that. 1/81 Armor and 1/35 Armor. No military there now, Right?

[SandMan]

I'm working on a few guys that are in my AA clan, trying to get them to look this way too, as most of them are older and not little teens looking for headshoots I should get 3 or 4 to buy, but I really wish my copy would get here already ;)

:) You mean 2-81 Ar don't cha ;) No more M1A1's here buddy, just me and a few old retiries that missed the boat ;) I was in 2-37 Ar, 2-70 Ar and Headquarters 2nd Brigade from 1976-1992 where you there then? If so PM me your name maybe we know each other :)

[TopKick]

Yep, I meant the 2/81 AR. Anybody still left in Furth or Nurnberg? I was there 74-78.

[SandMan]

No, Fürth and Nürnberg has both shut down, back in 95-96. The closest open post to Erlamgen is Bamberg...to bad man this was a great Military Comunnity.

[PaleRider]

I saw your avatar SandMan and figured you to be a former Ironsides soldier. I was in Schwabach with 2/59 ADA, across the street from 1/1 Cav back in 1982-83. I saw some pictures a while back of O'Brian Barracks now, kind of sad its almost all unused with tall grass every where.