Leon talks about Troika's sales figures

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In a thread at the RPG Codex forums, Leonard Boyarsky explains some things about the sales figures of Troika and the recent rumours surrounding them, though not giving any solid figures:<blockquote>I don't have any actual numbers at hand (nor do I know whether I can reveal numbers per our contract, since I don't have that with me at the moment either), but to the best of my knowledge, ToEE was our best seller - or at least our fastest. The reason it's difficult to say is because our numbers were often being adjusted after the fact for arcane business reasons (on the publisher's end). I believe Arcanum is close to ToEE in sales, but Arcanum has been out alot longer and is at a much lower price point. Vampire hasn't been out long enough to really judge how well it will eventually do, as our games tend to continue to sell (as do all RPGs) longer than most.

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The reason Andrew could see our royalty statements is because we were an open book company - besides sharing good news with our employees (like good sales numbers) everyone knew where we were financially at all times, even when the news was bad.</blockquote>Link: thread on RPGCodex

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Your avatar is disturbing.

The reason it's difficult to say is because our numbers were often being adjusted after the fact
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In short, no-one is ever going to know the real deal. Except some guy in accounting at Sierra, another bloke at Atari and one in Activision.
 
I had the impression too that all those games sold more than that... sadly, we'll never really know, as has been pointed out.

And that avatar is from somethingawful, wich we all know is shock full of retards, but the cool guys still manage to get a few great threads in, once in awhile.
 
Out of interest, does anyone know if troika still retains the rights to open up the source of their games or whether that would fall under the IP of the publishers?

If it is their choice to GPL BSD or open up the source would it still be possible at this point in time?

I'm thinking more about arcanum and TOEE than vampires.
 
Unfortunately most publishers try to retain IP rights. The trend towards developers keeping IP rights is a relatively recent event. (the last few years)

I know this from having worked on both sides of the fence.

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