The stock for Halo Wars keeps going up, even though every RTS that is released on console has been a flop. Even EndWar, with its revolutionary voice control which actually makes an RTS work on console still didn't sell well. The stock is predicting 3 million copies now? I remember shorting this thing at 1.5 million copies back in the day.
The trading on the new Metacritic Future (though early) doesn't seem to predict great reviews for this title either. I think this stock should be at 100 DKP at best.
I suppose I was a bit overarching with the sheep comment. Looking back on it now, I probably didn't need to say that. I was just a bit concerned that the price went down for the wrong reasons. Anyway, It doesn't matter much to me since I don't have too much invested in this stock. I leave everyone to do whatever they wish.
So, when people agree with someone (me, for this instant), which is against your opinion, you are calling them "a bunch of sheep" ? Your way of convincing people does not have to include insulting people (someone, not me, downbidded you, and I think the cause is your "bunch of sheep" statement).
I don't think this sudden drop is cause ONLY by the studio closing fact. If you look at the stock price movement, the price is 267 about one month ago (August 12). As of now, the price is 265, more or less the same as one month ago. This means that people are countering the steady increase in the last 2 weeks. When the price is 267, no big downward pressure, since people think the price is right. When it reached 300, people see sufficient profit margin from overprice, so people started to shorted them.
In other words, it is just business as usual, and not related to studio "closing". IMO.
So when was it decided upon that the stock would sink 15% in one day, just because the studio is "closing?" First of all, it's not like Ensemble was dismantled/rearranged for developing poor selling titles (e.g. FASA). Second of all, the recent news should have no real bearing on the sales of the game except for those who proclaim on the internet, "No, I will not buy this game because the Man$oft (wow, did that sound weird to anyone else?) shut down my favorite studio etc. etc."
It has been stated that there will be a crew to support the game after it comes out, so it's not like there won't be balance patches, or DLC - typical RTS stuff.
Again, I reiterate that this news about the company should NOT have a bearing on the sales of the game. If there was Ensemble stock on theSimexchange, that would be a different story, but seeing how there's not, I suppose people flock to this game to sell their shares (fairly) cheap and "try to get out early."
Somebody else see my reason and don't just be a bunch of sheep.
The game has been overpriced for a long time, so it could be people seeing an opportunity to correct the price (in their view). Reasons here and here. Also look over the past couple pages for more reasons why this should be sub 140DKP.
I'm inclined to agree. It was kind of implicit from the start, just like it's obvious there will be a Halo 3 PC at some point.
Hopefully if the cross-platform thing is true they'll do a better job of balancing the controls. The answer in shadowrun was basically to gimp them as much as possible so kb/m was no better than the gamepad.
I guess it didn't help that Shadowrun was sent to die either mind.
is the reason for the 7% sell off today because of the rumors of a pc version? i dont think sales would be lost on a pc version much. when shadowrun came out for both PC and 360, the pc version sold relatively MUCH lower. there were people constantly looking for PC players to help them get the cross platform associated achievements.
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