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Hirun Cryer

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

Baldur's Gate.

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.

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