{"id":12788,"date":"2011-07-07T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"magicka-dev-s-sales-are-90-digital-we-don-t-really-need-retailers-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/12788-magicka-dev-s-sales-are-90-digital-we-don-t-really-need-retailers-anymore","title":{"rendered":"Magicka dev\u2019s sales are 90% digital, \u201cWe don\u2019t really need retailers anymore\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/2011\/07\/06\/paradox-sales-are-90-digital-we-don%E2%80%99t-really-need-retailers-any-more-says-ceo\/\" target=\"_blank\"> PC Gamer<\/a>, Paradox  Interactive CEO Fredrik Wester reveals that 90% of the company&rsquo;s revenue comes  from online distribution of titles like Magicka, Mount and Blade, and King  Arthur, with additional retail sales just &ldquo;a bonus&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This year we&rsquo;re  close to ninety percent of our revenue being digital,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Retail sales  are like a bonus for us now. We don&rsquo;t really need retailers any more and that is  a release because retailers have not been good for the industry. They&rsquo;ve not  been good for the creative part of the industry, for finding new cool  games.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;People complain to publishers that there are only sequels on the  market, but that&rsquo;s because retailers want to see sequels, because they can do  their chart diagrams for how things sell and things like that. So one of the  things preventing more creative gaming has been the retail challenge.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I  can only say this now because we&rsquo;re not depending on them, so it&rsquo;s really  relieving to be able to say that,&rdquo; he adds.<\/p>\n<p>The developer&rsquo;s most recent  release, Magicka, has already sold 600 000 copies since launching in January,  and is expected to hit 1 million by the end of the year.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/2011\/07\/06\/paradox-sales-are-90-digital-we-don%E2%80%99t-really-need-retailers-any-more-says-ceo\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/15472-quot-We-don-t-need-retail-quot-says-Magicka-and-Mount-and-Blade-publisher?p=471992#post471992\" target=\"_self\">Discuss the digital distribution evolution <\/a><\/strong><\/span>in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC gaming is not dead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}