Steam Sales Numbers

[gebx]

WiiStation360 said:

gebx said:
I would estimate that Steam's numbers to be a lot lower then people imagine.

A couple weeks ago during the 75% off L4D, they announced that their weekend sale beat their launch sale by 3000%!!

An increase of 3000% wouldn't be possible unless the launch numbers are extremely small. For example if they sold 1,000,000 during the weekend sale then a 3000% would mean a launch sale of approx. 33,000.


Also, looking at the stats per game - L4D peaked at 24k yesterday..

 

False.  During the sale, L4D sales increased by 3000%, and beat launch sales number.

This is not 3000% over launch numbers.  This is most likely 3000% over the previous weekend.

 Oh crap, that makes more sense!