However, it was not the company's most profitable product by that time, as this distinction went to The Dark Eye: Blackguards.[23] The Deponia series overall achieved sales of 2.2 million copies by 2016, most of which derived from deep-discount sales, according to Daedalic's Carsten Fichtelmann. He noted that "full price sales were a little part of that [2.2 million] number".[24]