Editing Myth (video game series) (section)

===Sales and awards===
According to Bungie co-founder Alex Seropian, ''The Fallen Lords'' cost roughly $2 million to produce and market, by far Bungie's most expensive game up to that time, and as such, they needed it to be financially successful, especially as it was their first original PC game.<ref>{{cite book | title=Myth: The Fallen Lords: Strategies & Secrets | last=Farkas | first=Bart | publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons|Sybex]] | location=New York, NY | year=1997 | page=270 | isbn=9780782121407}}</ref> The game did prove to be a commercial success, selling over 350,000 units worldwide at roughly $40 per unit, earning the company $14 million,<ref name="History"/> and becoming Bungie's most successful game thus far.<ref name="Monsters"/> By 2000, the game had over 100,000 people registered with online accounts at Bungie for multiplayer games.<ref name="Monsters"/> The success of the game also helped Bungie rank #101 in ''[[Inc. (magazine)|Inc.]]''{{'}}s 1998 list of the 500 fastest growing [[Privately held company|private corporations]] in North America. Primarily due to the success of ''The Fallen Lords'', Bungie's profits had increased by 2,228% from 1993 to 1997.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.gamespot.com/articles/bungie-part-of-the-inc-500/1100-2465315/ | title=Bungie Part of the Inc. 500 | website=[[GameSpot]] | date=October 27, 1998 | access-date=May 8, 2016}}</ref>

''The Fallen Lords'' also won numerous awards, including "Real-Time Strategy Game of the Year" from ''[[PC Gamer]]'',<ref name="Gold"/> "Strategy Game of the Year" from ''[[Computer Gaming World]]'',<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/computer-gaming-world-announces-the-winners-of-the-1998-premier-awards-for-games-and-game-related-hardware-76328557.html | title=Computer Gaming World Announces the Winners of the 1998 Premier Awards For Games and Game-related Hardware | publisher=[[PR Newswire]] | date=January 16, 1998 | access-date=May 8, 2016}}</ref> and "Game of the Year" from both ''[[Computer Games Magazine|Computer Games Strategy Plus]]'' and ''[[Macworld]]''.<ref name="Monsters"/> ''Online Game Review'' named it one of the fifty greatest games ever made.<ref name="Monsters"/>

''Soulblighter'' considerably outsold ''The Fallen Lords''. In North America, pre-orders for the game reached 140,000 units. When v1.1 was released on January 7, day one sales reached roughly the same number of units the original sold worldwide.<ref name="Monsters"/>