Starcraft 2: first month sales: over 3 million

[DirtyP2002]

shio said:

DirtyP2002 said:

Slimebeast said:

DirtyP2002 said:

I don't get this. Blizzard says 3 million in one month worldwide. Why shouldn't they include digital distribution?

Yeah why shouldn't they? Of course they did. Who said otherwise?

make an educated guess.

 

And yeah Starcraft 2 will sell for years... for 5 bucks. Don't make it look like PC games make a profit for years. They just don't unless it is a MMO. I bought Warcraft III plus add ons this way.

 

Stop talking like you know it.

ALL Blizzard games drop in price slower than the average PC game. Starcraft Battlechest is still $15, after 12 years.

Diablo 2 Battlechest is also like $20.

Warcraft 3 should also be around $10 to $20.

PC games make profit for years because they're sold for years. Why would they sell if they didn't make money with it?! That's just common sense.

The developer won't see much from this though. 15€ pays the customer, the retailer wants some of that money, the wholesale trader wants some of that money, the logistics behind this wants some of that money, the publisher wants some of that money and the developer wants some of that money. So the developer makes probably 1-3€ or 5€ max.