Heroes Still in the Top Ten

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 06 Jul 2006, 14:02

Another week, another PC Games sales chart. It's not real surprise that Worlds of Warcraft topped the sales for the week of June 18-24 -- and the other games on that chart are just a rearangement of the previous weeks' results. Heroes of Might and Magic V is on 9th place, surrounded by other strategy/RPG games (Oblivion, Age of Empires III and Guild Wars Factions). The game is still selling well, but it gets beaten by titles that were released quite a while ago. Visit <a href="/http://www.gamespot.com/news/6153565.html">GameSpot</a> for the full list.

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Campaigner · Unread postby **Campaigner** » 06 Jul 2006, 14:40

And thus Heroes dies....

9th place when AoE III and Oblivion are still on the list! Heroes V will not stand another week. I'ts all over

murmurwoods · Unread postby **murmurwoods** » 06 Jul 2006, 15:42

I wonder if there will ever be another Heroes game that would last months on the chart - like Heroes 2.

Campaigner · Unread postby **Campaigner** » 06 Jul 2006, 17:49

Not even Galactic Civilizations 2 are on the list anymore so I'd say it's all over for TBS regarding staying power on the topten lists. I'ts the online era now.

ChinaBlue · Unread postby **ChinaBlue** » 06 Jul 2006, 18:55

Is it naive of me to think Heroes would have had a better position if the in-game documentation had been sufficient?

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 06 Jul 2006, 19:22

@ChinaBlue

Saleswise, yes. But it would certainly rate better imo.

ChinaBlue · Unread postby **ChinaBlue** » 06 Jul 2006, 20:29

but what about the "newbies" who, because of the lack of information, ditched the game early and spread the word..that might have effected the game saleswise.

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 06 Jul 2006, 20:33

Have you seen the documentation of most games nowadays? Most newbies probably bought it because of the graphics, and for those people documentation isn't exactly that important.

davhey · Unread postby **davhey** » 06 Jul 2006, 23:39

Don't give up on TBS just yet. Civ 4 had a nice run on the top 10, just fell off a week or two ago.

Gyx · Unread postby **Gyx** » 07 Jul 2006, 07:31

Are the sales of Heroes insufficient to justify expansion packs etc? I thought the initial sales were excellent? Do all games need to have a long run on the gamespot list... I don't think all the sales outside the U.S. are considered when composing this list...

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 07 Jul 2006, 10:43

The sales are sufficient for Expansions. People are just dissapointed that TBS's don't stay in the charts as long as MMO's or other games.

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