100 k it's a reasonable number, let's not exagerate...
Is it?
Let's do some quick math. 100K games selling at 50 Euro makes 5 Million. Deduct from that the retailer margin, distributor margin, cost of production and transport fees. I'm not sure about the percentage left for DTP but my guess is that it's about 30%. Especially if you take into account that for the English version it will be published by a 3rd party who also needs a margin, then again it might be more in Germany. Anyway, with 30% the revenues for DTP it sums up to 1.67 Million Euro.
You can look it up on the internet to find out what the average development costs for games are. In this case even a cross platform game. An 8-digit number is not uncommon. Even if we assume that the cost of development for DTP was a lot lower and my estimate of 30% is incorrect; 100K copies sold won't ever be enough.
I do however have no inside information from either DTP or Larian on this, I'm just extrapolating what I know from some other developments.
