hishadow
Level N+1
I refuse to buy this game! I do not want to spend any more time looking for ways to acquire this game.
Thank you for your attention.
Thank you for your attention.
Starting this coming week, Drakensang, the Complete Saga will be sold in U.S. shops as well. Surely, there's an equivalent across the pond?
Those problems doesn't apply to Steam where it is region restricted. It's like they want to protect nonexistent retail sales.Distribution problems are typical of medium budget games. A local publisher secures the funding, but he needs foreign partners to cover other regions. If those are unwilling to commit resources to promotion you end like TRoT. This happens to the majority of the Euro-RPGs, for example. Even Risen was hardly available at retail in NA, despite having Koch Media behind them, Europes biggest independent media distributor for games, software and DVDs.
Big publishers could secure worldwide distribution, but the typical Euro-RPG is simply too small for them to care. Anything below a projection of 1M units for full price is simply not worth the effort to start up their big marketing & production machine.
Those problems doesn't apply to Steam where it is region restricted. It's like they want to protect nonexistent retail sales.