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not really. amnesia and its let's plays, reaction videos, and custom stories were that garnered popularity for the company, not the penumbra series. to say that penumbra "put them on the map" would imply that it was what made frictional well-known, which wouldn't be accurate at all. this is also something that is briefly outlined in the blog post i referred to earlier.


i'm sure they're going to be much less likely to invest time and money into making things that won't sell as readily. they're gauging the community's interest before putting anything up for sale for a reason. doesn't make them sellouts, they're just being practical.

keep in mind this is coming from someone who likes penumbra more than amnesia... and who really, really wants some penumbra plushies. i just can't get my hopes up. ;_;

1. Penumbra had LPers and reaction videos too you know. No PewDiePies but you act as if it was completely unknown. It was very well received critically and quite popular. "On the map" is an idiom that refers to relative obscurity, not necessarily mainstream popularity. The tech demo wasn't widely known when it came out but Penumbra: Overture really impressed a lot of people with its advanced physics engine and sound design upon release, making Frictional Games a name to be reckoned with. If that's not "on the map" then I don't know what is. Amnesia had quite a lot of buzz around it before release, it wasn't just some game that came out all of a sudden and wowed a lot of people.

2. I didn't accuse anybody of being a sellout; simply that FG wants to please its fans by selling what they want to buy. Of course they're not going to sell something that no one wants to buy, but that doesn't mean the purpose of this thread was to find out where the big bucks lie. They can easily just turn Amnesia into a joke in order to make money like CrankyOldMan says, which is not what they are interested in.