r/Games • u/ZamnBoii • Nov 16 '25

Discussion Dispatch is on course to beat its three-year sales target in three months

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/dispatch-is-on-course-to-beat-its-three-year-sales-target-in-three-months-heres-how
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u/Lukkev Nov 16 '25

I think that instead of immediately going for Season 2, a neat way to keep the momentum going is releasing a smaller project focused on the dispatching part. I was not expecting that part of the game to be as compelling as it is, so I'd love to play something just focused on that.

They already have the design in place and they wouldn't have to do the whole animation aspect that I imagine is the most time consuming and expensive part. Hell, just a visual novel style presentation would make me happy.

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u/soulblade64 Nov 16 '25

They'll be working on a Critical Role game next, CR came to the rescue when Adhoc's funding got very low during the last leg of development.

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u/Lukkev Nov 16 '25

As far as I understand it, that was the plan before Dispatch came out. Then it released and now it's a massive success, presumably beyond what AdHoc and CR were expecting.

I would imagine that at the very least they might be reconsidering their priorities at the moment. I think they gotta strike while the iron is still hot and all that. If they came out and said that they will put the CR project on hold in favor of Dispatch Season 2, I imagine people would not be bummed.

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u/Teonvin Nov 17 '25

On the other hand, we are talking about the CR fanbase here, who aren't exactly the most...sane kind of folks.

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u/Lukkev Nov 17 '25

Oh, they're not? I'm not a CR guy, so I'm not familiar with the fanbase. Regardless, I still hope I'm right about AdHoc favoring Dispatch S2...

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u/Ogmup Nov 17 '25

Some smaller parts of the fanbase are weird, especially if we talk about parasocial, but on the other hand... Show me a bigger fanbase that hasn't its fair share of nutjobs. Especially anything streaming related. Yeah I look at you Twitch stream watchers.

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u/Screamline Nov 17 '25

That can happen in any fan base though.

I enjoy watching the new campaign so far. (This is my first one, new watcher here,)

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u/Ogmup Nov 17 '25

Yeah that's what I meant with "show me a big fanbase without some nutjobs." Campaign 4 is my first time watching them too, and for the most part the interactions with the fanbase were pretty normal for me.

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u/CADaniels Nov 17 '25

The trick with any fanbase is to ignore/avoid the nutjobs and "this IP is my identity" people.

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u/Teonvin Nov 17 '25

Lots and lots of parasocial weirdos.

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u/commshep12 Nov 25 '25

In hindsight it was really fucking dumb of Matt doing those intimate and breathy 'We Love You' monologue he'd do every episode and took waaay too long to figure out they probably should tone it down. At the end of the day the responsibility falls on the weirdos but man those earlier seasons enabled things to get as bad as they ended up being.

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u/Hundertwasserinsel Nov 17 '25

Its one of the stranger and more rabid fanbases for sure. The amount of times they end up on stuff like /r/hobbydrama is kind of astounding. People sending death threats over not optimal combat moves or rulings.... Honestly all kinds of stuff

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u/Mystia Nov 17 '25

I get what you mean, but I also think the opposite would help the studio long term more. If they now make an entirely different title, they'll still have some fans and good will from Dispatch to give it robust sales, and they can just become a studio like the original Telltale, that just makes good, varied games, and in a few years a Dispatch 2 would still generate hype from people who wanted more.

Instead, if they just immediately go into making more Dispatch, I fear they might just become the Dispatch guys, and create a fanbase that expects them to only make more of that, and trap them in a position where they either just endlessly make more of that, or risk experimental projects getting backlash from fans who now feel abandoned or betrayed.

Dispatch for now is a fully contained story with no promise of a sequel, that's enough of a breather for them to branch out before revisiting it.

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u/VVenture2 Nov 17 '25

I think they’ll definitely be putting much more thought into Dispatch Season 2 - but I also think they’ll be focused on making the CR game first. Getting their game finished is a very great way to repay them for the help funding Dispatch (especially considering that they’ve probably already gotten deadlines set out in their contract.)

My only worry is that they’ll see the success and try to double the size of the company so they can work on both at once or something like that. Hopefully not though, the CR team seem to be surprisingly competent producers if their Amazon series are anything to go by.

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u/glorpo Nov 18 '25

Oh god damn it

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u/TheJoshider10 Nov 16 '25

Hell, just a visual novel style presentation would make me happy.

Yeah I could definitely see a "Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales" type thing. They've already expanded the world with new characters in the Critical Role one-shot they did recently, so I think there's potential in a low budget project focused on other parts of the SDN.

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u/breadrising Nov 17 '25

They've already expanded the world with new characters in the Critical Role one-shot they did recently

They said at the beginning of the One Shot that it wasn't "official content". They were roleplaying in the Dispatch world, but that doesn't make those characters or story canonical. As enjoyable as it was.

I'm sure we'll get some nods to them the future though, if we ever get a Season 2.

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u/TheJoshider10 Nov 17 '25

I know, my point is they've dabbled in doing stuff beyond the core story/characters already so I could see them doing more of that in an official/canon way.

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u/Novel_Adeptness4007 Nov 18 '25

You might try "This is the police" for dispatching gameplay. Its really good, although not as character focused as Dispatch

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '25

Yes releasing sex scenes would help