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Schiller Apr 7, 2015 @ 11:12am
Did this game kill Piranha Bytes?
This game certainly was a commercial failure. With only ~97,513 Steam copies sold. Compared to ~628,157 for Risen and ~980,341 for Risen 2. I Know that those numbers probably aren't 100 accurate but still. There haven't been any informations from PB lately. No Patches. No nothing. Would be really sad to see them go...
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Y Ddraig Ddu Apr 7, 2015 @ 2:10pm 
Wow, I didn't realize R2 sold that well... But there's been a patch less than two months ago, already!
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North(rly)Drift Apr 7, 2015 @ 2:20pm 
I sure hope not!!!:r3trap: I think it may have wrapped up their interest in another Risen title, but for now I would speculate that they are already deep into the next project...I hope.
They do have great programmers & awesome writers, and artists, lots of potential there.
CrystalDynamics/SquareEnix I love, ohhh I can't think of the others, oh well, good topic point anyways...:8:
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supertrooper225 Apr 7, 2015 @ 8:36pm 
One thing to note is that the new game isn't going to have the sales of the older games because the new game HAS NOT BEEN OUT FOR AS LONG OF A TIME. Who knows?
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Smaloki Apr 8, 2015 @ 9:37am 
Some of the devs are active on the German WorldOfRisen forums. They are working on a new game (and they have a small team working on a prototype for a completely new game set in space), but they can't say anything tangible about it until Deep Silver allows/orders them to.


I don't think Risen 3 sold significantly worse than the first two games. The vast majority of Risen and Risen 2 sales stems from cheap bundles and the fact that both games have already been on sale for less than 10 bucks. Heck, the first game costs 10$ regularly. Risen 3 has never been lower than 25$ (at least as far as I know).
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^7ja^1co Apr 10, 2015 @ 1:15pm 
Risen 3 is now on sale @funstock, it's about 10.39 GBP, which is not that bad, but without expansions.

I have to say that Risen was the best because its absolutely full of the spirit of Gothic and Gothic 2.

Risen 2 is like a completely different game and Risen 3 (only played few hours at my friends house) seems like a sequel to Risen 2, not a next instalment in the Risen series.

I just don't undesrtand why PB won't do the smartest and safest thing to do to earn loads of money, release remastered (HD, patched, updated with quests and chars that didnt make it) of Gothic 1, Gothic 2 + Raven's Night. I would pay 500$ right now if I could get my hands on that tomorrow...are the so blind? bored with their games ?
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legal drug lord Apr 11, 2015 @ 2:51am 
:-) if u search in he net u may find what you are looking for m8 :-)
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'LLrUwe Apr 11, 2015 @ 4:57am 
Only I can say about Risen 3 is....dear Piranha Bytes... GIMMI MA ♥♥♥♥♥♥ MONEY BACK >:O
Its the worest part of Risen ever! Shame on u Piranha Bytes!
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Y Ddraig Ddu Apr 11, 2015 @ 6:15am 
Originally posted by Pfeffermuehle40k:
Only I can say about Risen 3 is....dear Piranha Bytes... GIMMI MA ♥♥♥♥♥♥ MONEY BACK >:O
Its the worest part of Risen ever! Shame on u Piranha Bytes!
Why? It was far, far better than Risen 2.
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SKN The LISPer Apr 11, 2015 @ 9:15pm 
Originally posted by ^7ja^1co:
Risen 3 is now on sale @funstock, it's about 10.39 GBP, which is not that bad, but without expansions.

I have to say that Risen was the best because its absolutely full of the spirit of Gothic and Gothic 2.

Risen 2 is like a completely different game and Risen 3 (only played few hours at my friends house) seems like a sequel to Risen 2, not a next instalment in the Risen series.

First few hours of Risen 3 is rather misleading, it feels allot more like risen 1 than risen 2, especially if you explore the different factions and such. But it does contain quite a few aspects from risen 2 as well.

Personally I'm not a huge fan of the risen series at all. They went from making rpg's set in a virtual world(Gothic you can play lutes, clean the floor with a broom, smoke swampweed, even take a bath! It feelt like you were actually in a virtual world, rather than just a game), to an rpg set in a game(none of said above things are possible in Risen 1, only thing you can do there is sit in chairs and cook food, risen 2 you can't even sit in chairs(3 reintroduce this)).
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Revelator Apr 12, 2015 @ 12:01am 
for me PB must REMASTER-fix-reboot-polishing... to DX11-12-mantle.... G1-G2-G3.
and upgrade to steamworks too...
Last edited by Revelator; Apr 12, 2015 @ 12:03am
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Kosmozuikis Apr 13, 2015 @ 1:23am 
Risen 3 will sell well when it gets into the bundle for 1$.
I also own risen and risen 2 but i never played them and not going too. I remember gothic 3, what a mess it was. Since then devs didn't learn anything.
Last edited by Kosmozuikis; Apr 13, 2015 @ 1:25am
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Kwisatz Apr 13, 2015 @ 2:43pm 
You also have to consider that Risen 2 was DRM protected by being tied to Steam, while Risen 3 is not! I'm not sure how big an influence this made on the numbers that Steam Spy yields (links below) but I know that in the German Risen forums a lot of people asked for a non-Steam copy of Risen 3. My guess is you can at least add another 100k to the ~90k of Steam-copies.

Still meagre for a game that has its moments (especially world design is top-notch!).

Steam Spy links:
Risen 1: http://steamspy.com/app/40300
Risen 2: http://steamspy.com/app/40390
Risen 3: http://steamspy.com/app/249230
Last edited by Kwisatz; Apr 13, 2015 @ 2:43pm
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saturn1 Apr 14, 2015 @ 11:17am 
Originally posted by OtakuSchiller:
This game certainly was a commercial failure. With only ~97,513 Steam copies sold. Compared to ~628,157 for Risen and ~980,341 for Risen 2. I Know that those numbers probably aren't 100 accurate but still. There haven't been any informations from PB lately. No Patches. No nothing. Would be really sad to see them go...
There were alot of awsome things this game could have done that would have made it way better such as the ability to drive your ship manually from island to island in my opinion. However, this game is my second favorite game after skyrim. I just have not found an RPG yet with any decent graphics other than skyrim and Risen 3 that is open world or in this case open island.
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iemander Apr 19, 2015 @ 6:09am 
They lost all their customers when they released Risen 2. Many bought that game and were very dissapointed, once you've lost a customer due to a quality issue with your product you've lost them forever. People don't want to get burnt twice.

The Steamspy numbers are reliable, Risen 3 sold at max 100k on Steam. Maybe a few extra k on other sites, but that's it guys, not more.
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Kwisatz Apr 19, 2015 @ 10:28am 
Originally posted by iemander:
They lost all their customers when they released Risen 2. Many bought that game and were very dissapointed, once you've lost a customer due to a quality issue with your product you've lost them forever. People don't want to get burnt twice.

The Steamspy numbers are reliable, Risen 3 sold at max 100k on Steam. Maybe a few extra k on other sites, but that's it guys, not more.

You*re not counting in retail though. I know the retail market's share is almost non-existant anymore but the Risen franchise has a pretty backwards fellowship that prefers their games to come on discs. As I said, I would guess around 100k copies sold as retail.
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