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Nem on 05 October 2012
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pezus said:
Nem said:
pezus said:
Nem said:

Its funny how Blizzard claims to have sold 2.7 mil copies of MoP. Looking at those numbers and past numbers the expansions had... no way those 2.7m are sold units. Has to be shipped.

They also claimed 6.3m Diablo III first week sold while the tracking here showed 2m. Then a few weeks later they claimed 10m+ while the sales here still stand below 3m (iirc).


Fact is, comparing to the same first week sales of cataclysm from this website it seems to have sold one third. Theres no way blizzard numbers are true. Unless they sold 7.4 million copies of cataclysm on week 1.

I have trouble believing that. Either way, the game is seriously in decline, wether they want to hide the numbers or not.

 

Edit: Actually now that we got worldwide numbers. Cataclysm sold 1.5 million copies first week according to this website. Pandaria sold 600-700k.

Yeah, something is fishy with blizzards numbers.

A bigger ratio of gamers seems to buy games digitally now than when Cataclysm came out (See: Diablo III)


I very much doubt that. Many stores make midnight events just for this game and WoW has always been strong on retail... until now that is.

As the other poster said, i doubt digital sales compose 75% of sales. I think theres definitly something dodgy in those numbers. I also dont believe Diablo 3 sold 10 millions in just a few months, unless its been released in china/korea already aswell.

Thats the only way i see these numbers been possible.

 

The other side of that analysis is the games are alot less popular in the west than we thought. I mean... even if these numbers are undertracked... no way they are undertracked by more than a million. I think WoW has alot less players in the west than people realise due to these dodgy blizzard numbers. The sales numbers here clearly show us that the game is selling at one third the rate of the previous expansion. Even if it was cause of digital distribution, it cant be THAT much of a difference. The games sales cant have shifted to digital by 60% of what cataclysm did in retail. It hasnt been that long ago you know...

We can also make a more recent comparison with Guild Wars 2, wich isnt typically a strong retail product, and it has sold aproximatly 900k first week (they also pushed the digital pre-purchase for the game alot). More than what WoW MoP did, and they announced 2 million sales recently. The website here rates the game at 1.15 m sold, wich means digital sales penetration to be around 45%. I dont see how MoP can have a penetration of 75%. It just isnt realistic. Digital isnt THAT farspread yet.