Quote Originally Posted by markaoliver View Post
Ask yourselves this ... if ETW had flopped, do you think you would be getting any patches at all? I dont ...
Isn't it a flop so far? They got a pop at launch due to heavy promotion to Valve's base of Steam users and pre-orders...

But since then, sales rate is below M2TW due to poor word of mouth. The sales profile of game that opens well and continues selling for the next 6 - 8 months is substantially higher than a game that opens big, but then has sales fall of a cliff. (Another clue: In the week after ETW launched, Amazon discounted it by 25% to avoid being stuck with a lot of unsold inventory - if the game had been selling to expectations, they would have kept the price up.)