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[Nirolak]

Apparently Brink did quite well.

"With Splash Damage, we finished Brink, and it's estimated to have sold more than 2.5 million units worldwide, which at retail would mean that it's generated around $120-140 million in revenue," explains Wedgwood.

"But of course, as an independent video game developer, we don't earn that kind of revenue, as we're not the publisher of the title... but we could see there was the potential to serve our fans content directly, and while we don't want to take anything away from what Splash Damage does, we wanted a vehicle that we can dedicate exclusively to that pursuit."

Source: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/...ves_Freetoplay_publishing_backend_support.php

 

[HotHamWater]

 

[gregor7777]

How the multiplayer scene for this game these days? EDIT: On 360

 

[Menelaus]

When your game is selling for $10 for so long, hard not to put up those kinds of numbers.

 

[Uno Venova]

Was impossible to find games on the PS3 when it came out.

 

[commish]

Hated that game.

 

[slaughterking]

Yeah, and apparently all of them are lying around for 10 bucks in the stores of my town.

 

[IceDoesntHelp]

I wonder how many have returned it.

 

[Square Triangle]

That is one large amount of disappointed people.

 

[GraveRobberX]

Well there we ridiculous fire-sales left and right for it

Amazon went the $20 route, I think Best Buy did a coupon route

I mean Sub-$10-$20, whatever price you will sell copies

Edit: Beaten =/

 

[Hato-kun]

Exactly what I imagined.

 

[hitoshi]

How the multiplayer scene for this game these days? EDIT: On 360

Around 9 people. At least 8 of them must be a Splash Damage employee.

 

[luffeN]

First post etc.

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

How many were for the tf2 hat?

 

[PjotrStroganov]

fp conveys my feelings exactly.

 

[No_Style]

When your game is selling for $10 for so long, hard not to put up those kinds of numbers.

Yeap. This game went on sale quickly and frequently.

 

[Zwei]

Got me copy for $5 at a terrific Best Buy sale. Many regrets

 

[gregor7777]

Around 9 people. At least 8 of them must be a Splash Damage employee.

LOL shame

 

[Sethos]

And how many of those copies were at retail price?

 

[U2NUMB]

I live in a very big city and last week I noticed at my local Best Buy that they still have many original copies of this game complete with the DO NOT SELL BEFORE orange sticker on them. No idea how this game sold that many copies.

 

[Infamous Chris]

 

[Neuromancer]

I did my part (bought it for $5)

 

[Derrick01]

I don't think I've ever seen a game drop in price so fast before Brink. It seemed like it was $10 two months after it came out and it went on sale frequently everywhere.

 

[yankeehater]

I borrowed my brothers copy and I didnt care for it at all. I wonder if this means there will be a sequel.

 

[Raide]

Kinda glad. Gameplay was fun and different. Not your usual CoD shooter. Plus the team stuff was pretty awesome when it all clicked. The launch was an utter mess, so no wonder people sold their copies within a few days. If only they had delayed it more to iron out those server issues and performance issues early on.

Relaunch as a F2P game on PC and Consoles.

 

[B_Rik_Schitthaus]

Brink more like Shit.

 

[theBishop]

Is he really estimating 120M in revenue from 2M sales? I have to think the majority of Brink sales came at < $20.

 

[Trickster]

....wat

 

[Jburton]

I bought this for £30 quid (PS3) ... played it twice.

Huge disappointment and a waste of money.

 

[Professor Fog]

Why?

 

[Visualante2]

How?

I bought this for £30 quid (PS3) ... played it twice.

Huge disappointment and a waste of money.

Same, except PC and couldn't sell it.

 

[Biggzy]

It was my most disappointing game of 2011 for me – what a waste of money.

 

[SparkTR]

Why?

The power of marketing.

 

[michaelius]

That makes me sad with the raccon city kind of sadness

 

[Vamphuntr]

Terrible, terrible game that bombed and was available quickly after launch? We just found who Capcom will hire to make the next Resident Evil guys.

 

[GraveRobberX]

Why?

Why not

A $59.99 game getting dropped to $19.99, people will insta-trigger pull to buy it thinking it's a fuck up... they were in for a fucking surprise

Then when that worked for a few weeks, then the $5-$10 price came to be, It was like I pay $5 for my Starbucks Coffee Milkshake, why not grab Brink for $5

 

[Visualante2]

The power of marketing.

The marketing budget was partly wasted, it focused on the PS3 version afaik. During the PSN outages.

 

[Firebrand]

Brink was an sort of okay game. Some technical issues (on PC, I hear it was a disaster on consoles), some fundamental design issues like encouraging both switching classes mid-game and specialized character builds, but yeah, it was fun for a little while.

I wouldn't mind a sequel, provided they actually learned from their many mistakes with the first one. If nothing else I'd like to see something done with that setting.

 

[shinobi602]

When your game is selling for $10 for so long, hard not to put up those kinds of numbers.

Shieeet, $120-140 mil? I wouldn't even give a shit if my game sucked for generating that kind of cash lol.

 

[Deadbeat]

Only reason this game sold was because they hid all the problems and it came out during a time when nothing else was available. People needed a good palette cleansing shooter and this was the only thing.

What a piece of shit game. Never trusting splash damage again.

Kinda glad. Gameplay was fun and different. Not your usual CoD shooter. Plus the team stuff was pretty awesome when it all clicked. The launch was an utter mess, so no wonder people sold their copies within a few days. If only they had delayed it more to iron out those server issues and performance issues early on.

Relaunch as a F2P game on PC and Consoles.

Better idea: everyone can go out and play wolf et right now. Its free. It works. Its much better.

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

About 2.4 million more than it deserved.

 

[foxdvd]

maybe shipped?

Game had so much potential...

 

[Visualante2]

For perspective, Kane & Lynch did over a million, on the same 3 platforms.

Shieeet, $120-140 mil? I wouldn't even give a shit if my game sucked for generating that kind of cash lol.

You should because I'm never buying a Splash Damage game at launch again. I doubt I'm alone.

 

[vocab]

over 2.5 million people bought Brink



LOL

 

[SenorDingDong]

It's a shame Splash Damage keep misfiring, first with Quake Wars then Brink. They seem to be the only company interested in developing multiplayer games in the vein RTCW and ET. Aside from Valve and TF2 I guess. I do recognize that RTCW was just a derivative of the original TF, but so many elements of TF2 are unappealing to me.

Oh and yes I was one of the people who had it pre-ordered at full price, as I did with Wolfenstein and Quake Wars before it, despite all signs suggesting they would be awful. Despite repeatedly assurring myself I won't be fooled again, I'm pretty sure I'll be at the front of the line for the next ET wannabe.

 

[GraveRobberX]

Brink 2: Brinking Brinker?

 

[Blablurn]

i remember that i really loved the gamescom build back then in 2009. but the final game was just a big mess. sooo... i'm really surprised about this news.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Surprising to say the least.

 

[Kujo]

"With Splash Damage, we finished Brink, and it's estimated to have sold more than 2.5 million units worldwide, which at retail would mean that it's generated around $120-140 million in revenue," explains Wedgwood.

Average selling price was $52? What

 

[Neuromancer]

Playing with friends against bots was all right