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Dragon Quest X for 3DS sells so well that Square-Enix halts sales because of demand
- Thread starter Mr. RPG
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killatopak
Gold Member
Yes. All versions share the same servers.
Falling back on old habits, Dave?
His habits are older than specs in a nintendo handheld.
Orniletter
Banned
clay_ghost
Member
The ports are actually quite decent.
Nintendojitsu
Banned
This hasn't been localized WHY exactly?
Uhm, nope? The game is streamed by the 3DS. The issues is server-related.
MrCunningham
Member
Is this something that they learned from the creator of Flappy Bird?
Hehehehe
Devilgunman
Member
Sony has realized that too.
here comes the Ninty hater..again -_-
I'm still surprised you are still not banned yet again..
More like, you are streaming the PC version of DQX to your 3DS.
You play remotely a game that is installed in SE's servers.
Gaiaknight
Member
and folks this is why Dragon quest 11 will probably be on the 3ds....
At the resolution of the 3DS, I am sure they can increase the quality of the compression used.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
lol
Believe me, DQX sales are not the reason DQ11 will be on 3DS. The game was reported to have a low shipment as well.
It was? What is your source for that?
I'm not challenging the idea that the shipment was low, just that it was actually reported.
bobawesome
Member
What was wrong with his post? If anything, you and Chindogg should be banned for backseat modding.
On Topic: Is the 3DS version an actual cart? Or is it just a code in the box?
clay_ghost
Member
They can't even handle the game when they have small shipment? SE need better servers lol
Just a code in the box to DL the Streaming App.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
You wouldn't hear about this in any Vita thread, that's for sure!
Because the game sells well.
Low could mean several things depending on what your expectations are and what you compare it too.
The thing with this game is, there will be people who just play to beat the story and then stop. And there will be permanent subscribers. If we assume (for convenience's sake) that sales would be frontloaded and half of players stop after the 60 free days. Then SE would be sitting on 50 % unused cloud servers after 60 days.
So for SE it makes sense to stagger sales over a longer period of time to use server capacity for leaving players on new players.
This is my informed guess, I don't actually know what SE's plan for this version is. The actual percentages may vary but definitely not all players will become permanent subscribers.
SliceSabre
Banned
Sounds exactly like the FFXIV: ARR launch.
Servers basically catching fire from the demand. Took them a month or two to completely figure it.
Servers basically catching fire from the demand. Took them a month or two to completely figure it.
clay_ghost
Member
I am sure loss of sales will be more than servers costs. Worst come to worst, SE can sell the servers. They can't get people to buy the game known to be bad.
The game is known to be good. It has been on the market for two years and has topped a million even before this version.
The low Amazon reviews cry over the bad cloud performance, not over the game being bad. Actually some of the worst criticism comes from people who are also playing one of the other versions.
clay_ghost
Member
DXB-KNIGHT
Member
Not surprised at all a well known IP on the most successful system in Japan,
Square should've seen this coming a mile away
Square should've seen this coming a mile away
The streaming performance is likely bad because of insufficient server capacity. The streaming versions already have the highest sub fees, SE most likely is weighing cost of establishing servers versus maintainable sub income. It is easy to say they should just fund the servers but if that won't be profitable what is the point of selling a lot of copies?
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
It seems SE needs multiple lessons before they learn.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
It was mentioned somewhere in the MC thread but I guess proven with the rankings and first day sell through info (40pts and 80% sell through).
So it wasn't reported after all.
4 actually, Wii, WiiU, PC and now 3DS.
It's also on Docomo contracted smart devices, also via streaming. And PC has two versions.
KiTA
Member
One thing I don't think Square Enix realizes is how many people are playing DQX on the Japanese data servers despite being in other countries. From what I understand it plays just fine despite this.
If they took that part out of the equation -- having to get US / EU specific data servers, and just considered the localization and support aspects (Something they could borrow from FF11/FF14's infrastructure), I wonder if DQX US/EU becomes more feasible.
If they took that part out of the equation -- having to get US / EU specific data servers, and just considered the localization and support aspects (Something they could borrow from FF11/FF14's infrastructure), I wonder if DQX US/EU becomes more feasible.
KiTA
Member
5 or 6 actually -- Wii, WiiU, PC, 3DS, Android, IOS. Although I'm not sure about which of the last two is correct -- it's a specific cell company's service.
What's this about 2 PC versions?
All versions required you to make a SE account to play. Apparently they thought that might be a hurdle for some people to try it so they made a yahoo version where you can use your existing yahoo account, no need to make a SE one. The yahoo PC version has several other differences as well, like no easy switching to other versions.