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crissindahouse on 04 November 2012
Barozi said:
pezus said:
Still doesn't make sense because it's only #10 on Steam sales charts currently and only 3000 people are playing it at this moment. It might have sold pretty well, but 400k+ retail?! Hell no lol


Whatever crissindahouse says, I'm pretty sure some PC games are overtracked in Germany since we start tracking them. No doubt PC gaming is much bigger here (percentage wise).

Anno 2070 for example: http://www.gamestrend.de/articles/v/1ce99ed3-d945-4447-8214-9ea605887b15/Anno-2070---Knackt-die-100-000

100k in 4 weeks. We have it at 200k for the same time period.

I expect the same happened here. Well we'll see it at the end of the month when the BIU makes a press release with their sales awards.

ok



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crissindahouse on 04 November 2012
pezus said:
Barozi said:
pezus said:
Still doesn't make sense because it's only #10 on Steam sales charts currently and only 3000 people are playing it at this moment. It might have sold pretty well, but 400k+ retail?! Hell no lol


Whatever crissindahouse says, I'm pretty sure some PC games are overtracked in Germany since we start tracking them. No doubt PC gaming is much bigger here (percentage wise).

Anno 2070 for example: http://www.gamestrend.de/articles/v/1ce99ed3-d945-4447-8214-9ea605887b15/Anno-2070---Knackt-die-100-000

100k in 4 weeks. We have it at 200k for the same time period.

I expect the same happened here. Well we'll see it at the end of the month when the BIU makes a press release with their sales awards.

Yeah, and I hear Anno is pretty damn big in Germany. So to think Farming Simulator did 2 times as much in only a week is almost crazy!

i just wonder where the site barozi linked to had the numbers from. they could also use totally wrong numbers. i mean, all they say is that it sold 100k. btw i say fifa sold 50 million last week



Chark on 04 November 2012

I've been farmin simin since you kids were in diapers. Sim Farm 4 life!



Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(

crissindahouse on 04 November 2012
pezus said:
Barozi said:
pezus said:
Still doesn't make sense because it's only #10 on Steam sales charts currently and only 3000 people are playing it at this moment. It might have sold pretty well, but 400k+ retail?! Hell no lol


Whatever crissindahouse says, I'm pretty sure some PC games are overtracked in Germany since we start tracking them. No doubt PC gaming is much bigger here (percentage wise).

Anno 2070 for example: http://www.gamestrend.de/articles/v/1ce99ed3-d945-4447-8214-9ea605887b15/Anno-2070---Knackt-die-100-000

100k in 4 weeks. We have it at 200k for the same time period.

I expect the same happened here. Well we'll see it at the end of the month when the BIU makes a press release with their sales awards.

Yeah, and I hear Anno is pretty damn big in Germany. So to think Farming Simulator did 2 times as much in only a week is almost crazy!

i just checked the "biu" numbers barozi was talking about, they give prices for over 100k, 200k, 500k and 1m in sales for the year. anno got the price for over 200k sales and it was released on 17th of november so it sold 200k-500k in 6 weeks, i think vgchartz is way closer to the real anno sales as the site he posted is.

"ANNO 2070 (Ubisoft), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3(Activision) und The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim (Zenimax Europe Ltd.) haben sich jeweils über 200.000-mal auf dieser Plattform verkauft und erhalten dafür einen BIU Sales Award in Platin."

http://www.digitale-generation.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13861:biu-sales-award-fifa-12-erfolgreichstes-spiel-des-jahres-2011&catid=35:games&Itemid=94



Barozi on 04 November 2012
crissindahouse said:
pezus said:
Barozi said:


Whatever crissindahouse says, I'm pretty sure some PC games are overtracked in Germany since we start tracking them. No doubt PC gaming is much bigger here (percentage wise).

Anno 2070 for example: http://www.gamestrend.de/articles/v/1ce99ed3-d945-4447-8214-9ea605887b15/Anno-2070---Knackt-die-100-000

100k in 4 weeks. We have it at 200k for the same time period.

I expect the same happened here. Well we'll see it at the end of the month when the BIU makes a press release with their sales awards.

Yeah, and I hear Anno is pretty damn big in Germany. So to think Farming Simulator did 2 times as much in only a week is almost crazy!

i just checked the "biu" numbers barozi was talking about, they give prices for over 100k, 200k, 500k and 1m in sales for the year. anno got the price for over 200k sales and it was released on 17th of november so it sold 200k-500k in 6 weeks, i think vgchartz is way closer to the real anno sales as the site he posted is.

"ANNO 2070 (Ubisoft), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3(Activision) und The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim (Zenimax Europe Ltd.) haben sich jeweils über 200.000-mal auf dieser Plattform verkauft und erhalten dafür einen BIU Sales Award in Platin."

http://www.digitale-generation.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13861:biu-sales-award-fifa-12-erfolgreichstes-spiel-des-jahres-2011&catid=35:games&Itemid=94

Read through the source again and you'd see that these are chart-track/gfk numbers. The same as BIU uses.

http://www.gamestrend.de/articles/v/ab85c2e6-815a-4150-95d5-8da33d1efc77/Anno-2070---Verkaufszahlen-der-zweiten-Woche

Where else should they get their numbers from ? Usually all German sites post either shipment data or gfk numbers.



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crissindahouse on 04 November 2012
Barozi said:
 

Read through the source again and you'd see that these are chart-track/gfk numbers. The same as BIU uses.

http://www.gamestrend.de/articles/v/ab85c2e6-815a-4150-95d5-8da33d1efc77/Anno-2070---Verkaufszahlen-der-zweiten-Woche

Where else should they get their numbers from ? Usually all German sites post either shipment data or gfk numbers.

yeah that's another article, how could i expect that i have to search for another article about anno on this site to know what they said in the first link "our source which doesn't include all shops" does mean gfk charts

but it sold over 200k the whole year so vgchartz overtracked it first and mabye undertracked it the last weeks of the year? no clue where anno was end of the year but at least it sold minimum the amount the rest of the year like vgchartz said. is there a full number for 2011? i know this anno wasn't so beloved so i really wonder.



crissindahouse on 04 November 2012
spurgeonryan said:
 

Criss cross once told me on steam that he has put over 500 hours into farming simulators. Now he is a professional farmer in East Berlin.

only game i play so long are halo games.

and elder scroll games and total war games if you count them all together. ahh and also age of empire games and...



Fitifong on 04 November 2012

Farming Simulator is the shit. It's just one of those games that you play when you're in a bad mood.