JWeinCom said:
Occam's razor really doesn't have much to do with this. One way may be simpler, but that doesn't necessarily mean more accurate. Occam's razor is like Murphy's Law. It's a good rule of thumb, but it's not an absolute. As for the reason, let's take this example. For argument's sake, let's say Pokemon Go is the only game in the Pokemon franchise. Ten year's from now, it has sold one trillion dollars worth of content through microtransactions off of 100 billion downloads. Meanwhile, there is a game called "Ducky ducky quack quack 5000" that I made in my basement. I sold 3 copies at ten cents each. Which is the better selling franchise? |
Free to play games already have useful categories: for example, most revenue, most downloaded, highest/longest attach rate etc. those categories among a few others are much more meaningful than # sold since they are not sold to begin with as has been stated many times - to compare Mario Kart or GTA sales to Pokemon Go "sales" is distinctly not an apples to apples comparison - and neither helpful or accurate for comparisons
