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Forums - Sales Discussion - Destiny 2 to shift 5 million digital units within 3 months, 3M on Pc Alone and ~2M across Consoles.

Chazore on 13 July 2017
think-man said:
Chazore said:
I think they took a gander at PuB and thought D2 would manage the same.

It's locked to Battlenet though so no, I don't expect it to sell a lot since it's ignoring the millions that are over on Steam as well as GoG.

Oh, I didn't realise it wasn't coming to steam.

It's pubbed by Activision, so they want to avoid paying Steam 30%, but in doing so they ignore Steam and GoG entirely in favor of their partner, Blizzard's user base. WoW has been in a steep decline over the years and Overwatch is doing well, Hearthstone is F2P so whatever it makes is expected. Heroes is doing way worse to LoL and DIablo III has been out since 2012 so it's already made it's money and SCII's last expansion as 2015 and will have made all it could possibly earn.

Non dedicated servers while sporting a P2P network isn't going to win many over on PC. It certainly hasn't for Ubisoft's For honor game. 



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jason1637 on 13 July 2017

Yup Destiny 2 will be huge. Its a masterpiece.



irstupid on 13 July 2017
PEEPer0nni said:
The biggest holiday game 2 million on consoles...
I really need to know the thinking patterns of gaming analysts. My cat would make better predictions.

This is digital only prediciton.



Goddbless on 13 July 2017
Dallinor said:
3 million downloads on PC in 3 months?

That would be huge.

More like 2 months. Destiny 2 only releases on consoles Sept 6th. It releases on PC Oct. 24th.



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think-man on 13 July 2017
Chazore said:
think-man said:

Oh, I didn't realise it wasn't coming to steam.

It's pubbed by Activision, so they want to avoid paying Steam 30%, but in doing so they ignore Steam and GoG entirely in favor of their partner, Blizzard's user base. WoW has been in a steep decline over the years and Overwatch is doing well, Hearthstone is F2P so whatever it makes is expected. Heroes is doing way worse to LoL and DIablo III has been out since 2012 so it's already made it's money and SCII's last expansion as 2015 and will have made all it could possibly earn.

Non dedicated servers while sporting a P2P network isn't going to win many over on PC. It certainly hasn't for Ubisoft's For honor game. 

Oh, so Activision games don't usually release om Steam? I seldom use steam, so I was unaware. 



 

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AngryLittleAlchemist on 13 July 2017
Dallinor said:
3 million downloads on PC in 3 months?

That would be huge.

Playerunknown did that in 4 months. Honestly wouldn't be too surprising.



Chazore on 13 July 2017
think-man said:

Oh, so Activision games don't usually release om Steam? I seldom use steam, so I was unaware. 

No, they still release games on Steam. They didn't want to pay the 30% cut with Destiny 2 and they want to control how it's bought and run, so slapping it on their partners client semmed like a good idea to them (it'll backfire in the longrun though). 



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Chazore on 13 July 2017
Mar1217 said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

Playerunknown did that in 4 months. Honestly wouldn't be too surprising.

They're not releasing it on Steam, so that's probably not happening xD

Considering the sheer sizer of Steam's userbase vs Battle.net's, it'll be fun to watch Activision trying to excuse the stupid decision.

PuB sold that much because it was a game type that wasn't being markted to until recent years. PuB came around and it was exactly what people wanted from a BR game and of course the market spoke. I don't see many clamoring for a console style MMO corridor shooter experience over on B.net though.



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SegataSanshiro on 13 July 2017
vivster said:

Emphasis on the ANAL.



AngryLittleAlchemist on 13 July 2017
Mar1217 said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

Playerunknown did that in 4 months. Honestly wouldn't be too surprising.

They're not releasing it on Steam, so that's probably not happening xD

Yes but Overwatch has like what, 30 million total players? Most of those sales were probably PC.