Left Behind sales lagging

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpotPosted Feb 21, 2007 3:45 pm PT

Publisher's first quarter with revenue to report yields more than $2 million in sales, $4 million in losses.

After more than four years, Left Behind Games has posted its first dollars of revenue--more than 2.2 million of them, in fact.

Yesterday the publisher announced its financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2006, and it posted sales of just over $2.2 million. The entirety of that sum was due to sales of Left Behind Games' first product, the PC real-time strategy game Left Behind: Eternal Forces, which launched in mid-November.

However, the publisher still spent more than it brought in for the quarter, resulting in a net loss of more than $4.1 million for the three months. That brings its total losses since inception to more than $31 million.

Despite that deepening hole, Left Behind Games expects to turn the corner and become profitable in less than a year. In related news, the publisher today announced that it has begun distribution of its game to South Africa and has "numerous" overseas distribution agreements lined up.

Eternal Forces is based on the best-selling Christian fiction book series of the same name, which has spun off into multiple side series and a feature film starring Kirk Cameron. The game was released to disparaging comments from game critics and Christian groups alike, but Left Behind Games has not been dissuaded. The publisher is planning an expansion pack for the game for a September release, and a true sequel developed with the aid of RTS specialists Big Huge Games after that.

80 Comments

  • 1357900

    Posted Feb 23, 2007 10:47 am PT

    I'm not attempting to stereotype. Anyway, this project could've maybe gone better, but I think it was more, or less thrown together. I agree w/ you about some M rated games are good like... Perfect Dark, or Splinter Cell. And yeah..for a company, they need a way better name

  • PixyMisao

    Posted Feb 23, 2007 7:15 am PT

    Terrible name for a game company.

  • rokkuman09

    Posted Feb 22, 2007 4:58 pm PT

    vamroc :
    Does anyone else find it funny that a game called Left Behind has been Left Behind by so many of the bible thumping Cool Aid drinkers that kind of series preys on. How bad does it have to be for those suckers not to buy it.

    I'm a Christian dude, and guess what I think this game is stupid too. Also.. just because your a Christian doesn't mean you think everythings "evil", I play HL2 and some other games that are M and I don't think their really bad or anything. Please don't stereotype.

  • rokkuman09

    Posted Feb 22, 2007 4:55 pm PT

    They made some really bad decisions in the design of this game. Doesn't it even have a form of spyware in it?

  • runstalker

    Posted Feb 22, 2007 3:03 pm PT

    Obviously someone very rich associated with the gazillion-selling Left Behind book series is funding this debacle. Forget the expansion boys. Just get on with the "true sequel developed with the aid of RTS specialists Big Huge Games." You need all the help you can get. The first effort was a disaster.

  • comthitnuong

    Posted Feb 22, 2007 2:39 pm PT

    It is not really surprising that this game isn't selling well. I don't think the game will "turn the corner" either. This game was based off of an uneasy concept and was not even carried out well.

  • 1357900

    Posted Feb 22, 2007 11:00 am PT

    My last post was incomplete due to my browser crashing. I never bought the book, cause I thought it was a little far fetched{I mean to say too much fiction}. Anyway, to continue my last uncontinued post, I think this company is just trying to make money, but I really don't know. I can't judge something I don't know much about, if anything at all. The best wayI can put my opinion on this is thusly: I think these people are either radicals, and/or new Christians, but my guess is just radicals. In any event, I think this game is really too fictional for a mature Christian{meaning a Christian who is mature in the faith, rather than someone who just became a Christian}. This news doesn't surprise me, really. More over, its just dissapointing that software that is supposed to be Christian, really isn't, and is just a radical's attempt to make money. I don't know what kind of content is in this game, but if the other posters here are accurate about the game's content, then all I can say is:"Everyone who is reading this post, this game is too far fetched." Also, radicals are generally the ones who make these headlines in the name of Christianity, or some other religion. Christians are not radicals, but some people try to merge the two, in Christianity, and other faiths. Christians are not this outlandish, that'a what I'm trying to say. And furthermore: we are not intolerent to women, or to people who believe something else, but the idea that we are is straight from a radical's perspective.

  • vamroc

    Posted Feb 22, 2007 10:59 am PT

    Left Behind: Eternal Forces Expansion Pack !!! What do they need to expand are they going from suck to blow.

  • vamroc

    Posted Feb 22, 2007 10:41 am PT

    Does anyone else find it funny that a game called Left Behind has been Left Behind by so many of the bible thumping Cool Aid drinkers that kind of series preys on. How bad does it have to be for those suckers not to buy it.

  • Outlawlaw

    Posted Feb 22, 2007 8:48 am PT

    This just in, 1 million dollars worth of those sales where from religious nuts who wanted to pick the game apart!

    The other million where grandmothers.

  • cjcr_alexandru

    Posted Feb 22, 2007 7:45 am PT

    Is this a surprise?

  • ghsacidman

    Posted Feb 22, 2007 7:28 am PT

    Left Behind sucks! This game got so much media attention it'rediculous... and it still didn't sell well. Thats what you get when you make a crappy rts from an even crappier franchise.

  • dr_jashugan

    Posted Feb 22, 2007 6:48 am PT

    It seems they definitely Left Behind their profits.

  • darkfox101

    Posted Feb 22, 2007 6:45 am PT

    LMAO i saw this game on the news.. news reporter: "that game will defiantly sell" i cracked up on that one.. u could tell how crap it was from a few gameplay videos..

  • eckertt001

    Posted Feb 21, 2007 11:56 pm PT

    Guess they need more then a $31 million dollar loss to realize it's a flop.

  • RaiKageRyu

    Posted Feb 21, 2007 11:19 pm PT

    Sigh

  • the-very-best

    Posted Feb 21, 2007 11:04 pm PT

    It's evident by the sales that people don't want these kind of games so stop trying to force them down peoples throats.

  • puppiemaster

    Posted Feb 21, 2007 9:28 pm PT

    As long as it has good gameplay I'm all for it, + Jesus rambo style blowing up non believers

  • robfield

    Posted Feb 21, 2007 9:25 pm PT

    Um...just stop making games

  • RonHack

    Posted Feb 21, 2007 9:02 pm PT

    The sound you hear is Jesus breathing a sigh of relief.

    The game is just too messed up. They deserve to hit the skids.

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