daggy on 30 January 2010
| Foamer said: This is an interesting site. The site owner has basically written a crawler which trawls through the public Steam community pages and tallies the number of players for those titles that have Steam achievements. Some sample numbers- Team Fortress 2: 1,740,658 Half-Life 2: Episode Two: 1,255,624 Portal: 1,247,849 Left 4 Dead: 1,216,644 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: 1,023,973 Left 4 Dead 2: 673,940 Bear in mind that these are only from public community pages, which are less than 40% of the total Steam user base. An IW community fella recently stated that 'millions' of PC owners were playing MW2, so it looks likely that you can at least double the numbers there to arrive at overall sales figures. It obviously doesn't give Steam sales figures as most of these games are also sold at retail, but the full list of the games covered, does show a number of games which are digital download only. Some pretty healthy figures in there. |
wow that'sa damn interesting!! It's funny considering that most people here in VGChartz think that MW2 only sold like 500k on PC. Infact, the biggest guesstimation i've seen on the site was only 750k for the PC version.
