43-year CRPG veteran behind Fallout and Wasteland flexes his OG Baldur's Gate Platinum award - while admitting the 150,000 sales total would be "the end of your career" today
CRPG veteran Brian Fargo, who helped develop the original Fallout games and bring the Wasteland series to life, has reflected on awards for selling "50 or 100,000" units decades ago, commenting how such sales nowadays would spell the "end of your career."
Brian Fargo has a very, very long history of making video games, extending all the way back to when he self-published a text adventure in 1981. Fargo's obviously seen a lot of shifting industry trends come and go over the years, it's fair to say, which is probably what's prompted the reflective tweet below on sales figures for his games.
The images begin with a Gold award for shipping 100,000 copies of 1995's Stonekeeper, while the second is an award for shipping 100,000 copies of Battle Chess, the first title Fargo helped make at Interplay Productions in 1988. There's also an award for the original Baldur's Gate - which Interplay published in 1998 - going Platinum by selling 150,000 copies, and finally an award for first-person shooter Descent selling 100,000 copies.
Back in the day, you'd get an award for selling 50 or 100,000 units, now it's the end of your career.
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