yyahoo: I think you're oversimplifying things and way overstating the perception of value that game developers and publishers have regarding their products. It's the reason why publishers and devs fail and get bought out regularly. They truly don't understand their product's value and subsequently don't make a good profit and fail. I don't know if that will be the case with Keane or not, but believing that you can "take it to the bank" that because a game price is steady for a long period of time that it is selling at the right level for properly optimized profit is just not realistic.
We don't have the demographics to know either way so any opinion is rampant speculation. With the Jack Keane 2 showing up in the Insomnia sale situation however, the game was just out of place in what people expected out of the sale, it was a reflection of perhaps a poor choice of a game to put in the rotation of that particular type of sale, or a reflection that the sale itself was not well thought out for problem scenarios like a game showing up to stall the sale. I'm just saying that neither of these things is a reflection of how fun the game is to actually play, nor how many people like or dislike the actual game. Rather, people's distaste for the game on GOG due to the Insomnia sale is purely emotional reaction to a sale getting stonewalled by a single game which happens to have a higher than average price tag primarily because it is a newer game more than anything. In theory they could have had ArmA 3 in the sale if that game was available on GOG, and say.. regular price is $40 hypothetically and they put it on sale for $15 lets say and offer 200 copies. I would bet dollars to donuts that the game would stick around for hours trying to sell, and that any game more than $10 will do the same, even if it is GOTY, simply because its price point is higher and less people buy higher priced games than people who buy lower priced games, even if the higher priced game is the best thing in the universe. Perhaps a better example might be The WItcher 3, which is one of the most highly anticipated games of 2014 at this point. If that was out and in an Insomnia sale for $15 alongside 60 other games all in the $1.49 to $5 range, I would bet that 200-500 copies of that would take all day to sell even if it was on every person's wishlist. ;o)
This is all just speculation, nobody has the actual information, but I think it is reasonable speculation at least. Having said that, I don't think I'd put Jack in the same class of game as ArmA or The Witcher series either, but those 2 series are immensely popular big sellers and I think they'd have slowed the sale down too. We can't know unless GOG does a repeat and tests my theory. ;)
