hyphz
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A friend on an online game sent me this link:

http://www.theisonews.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=131146

When I read it, it nearly made me want to a) cry and b) print Erik some money

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Wow! Erik actually convinced some of them to even think about buying the game! Now THAT'S impressive!

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Stuwy
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The art of persuasion is powerful. I'm overwhelmed how Erik handled that situation in a forum where the common IQ level is shot.

Great stuff Erik!

NiroZ
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Erik's PR abilities has always held me in awe. This is no exception.

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That is most impressive.... Now I want to buy a Smitemaster's CD though.... >_>

DGM
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Erik,

I notice that you were forthcoming about your sales data in that thread. I appreciate it, as it seems many indie developers are tight-lipped about that sort of thing.

If you're willing to go into a little more detail, I'd like to ask how many sales you've made by platform. I'm still investigating multi-platform potential for The Dungeon and such information could be very helpful.

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I feel totally, overwhelmed by amusement...

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Banjooie
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Erik won that thread. He won it so hard.

Alneyan
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DGM wrote:
I'm still investigating multi-platform potential for The Dungeon and such information could be very helpful.

For what it's worth, I got the figure of 10% for another game I was involved with. The whole thing was split roughly equally between Mac Os X and miscellanea Linux. That was one year ago or so, and of course the whole thing is very market-dependent (somehow, I suspect rogue-likes would fare a lot better).

You might want to try a poll to have some sort of estimation, though. Even Erik's figures wouldn't be terribly accurate: DROD on CD comes with all three versions, and DROD through CaravelNet allow multiple redownloads.

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Reading those two pages, other than Erik's eloquent, patient and gentlemanly contribution, made me cringe a little and made me all the more thankful for the quality of this Forum.

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Reminds me of why I found this forum so attractive in the first place.

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Ravon
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It reminds me why I'm so ridiculously glad that I found these forums first (as in before any others). Hurray for a reasonable average intelligence!