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mirgro on 23 November 2009
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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

 

Actually i we measure it according to OTHER PC games MW2 also fails miserably. It's not even the first o any sales charts on any DD already and it has been 2 weeks since release. That's actually a nice indication people are staying away from MW2.

Also thank you fo the statistics. Although I have to agree with vlad that many many of the countries listed have a far inferior software distibution than say, the US and other countries. It's interesting because if I pull up the internet speeds and penetration a bunch of the contries with reall good internet are way up above the US as well.

Another problem, the countries at the bottom generally make ridiculous amounts of money, and 50 bucks for them is reasonable, however 50 bucks for the poorer countries at the top is just outrageous. If anything developers need to pull their heads out of their asses and realize they can't sell games at the same price point throughout the world.

In another thread I provided what Valve had to say about piracy (basically layign the blame ond developers) and they even noted that when they cut game prices by 75% they made 15% more money than when they were selling at 100%. So obviously there is a huge problem with pricing. Ultimately it's because developers/publishers are at fault, not the people. Also DRM is the worst idea a deveoper has ever had to stem piracy.