Is this what happens when people decide to boycott?

[vlad321]

Jereel Hunter said:

mirgro said:

Jereel Hunter said:

jefforange89 said:
inb4 someone says "it wouldn't have sold in the first place, PC gaming is dead, everyone pirated it, etc. etc."

Actually, for a PC game, it sold really well.

It's amazing how predictable some people are.

BTW have you found any statistics with numbers on piracy yet or are you still just spouting hearsay?

huh? For a game that's not a WoW expansion where EVERYONE needs to get it the day of, for a PC game, it had tremendous first week sales. PC games don't tend to do the majority of their lifetime sales in the first month like consoles, so selling 500k+ week 1 indicates that it'll have millions of sales lifetime. While it would be a terrible opening for a console (500k first week would indicate under 2m lifetime, generally) it's good for a PC opening. (And of course, also because other than a couple genres, i.e. RTS, sales are generally much higher on consoles)

 

Well, the BSA is the primary source of piracy estimates, and here are those they released.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_sof_pir_rat-crime-software-piracy-rate

 

On your list the first country that probably gets the same release date as any other coutry is Russia all thee way down at 38 or so. Any other country which has good distribution of software is well under 50%.