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kumagawa on 05 March 2015
shikamaru317 said:

What the heck are Unturned, Robocraft, and Heroes & Generals? If they're that popular how have I never heard of them?

Happy to see that Civ: Beyond Earth is doing well. Surprised to see how well Dead Island: Epidemic is doing, doesn't everyone supposedly hate Dead Island


That is most downloaded there are more lists in the linked article including played were it turns out the half the people who have downloaded Dead Island: Epidemic which is F2P have yet to play it 4 months after release.



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episteme on 05 March 2015

Some numbers of games that console gamers should know http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/03/steam-gauge-measuring-the-most-popular-steam-games-of-2014/3/

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor: 977.790
Thief: 971.028
DARK SOULS II: 964.266
South Park: The Stick of Truth: 929.442
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare: 787.439
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel: 741.457
Wolfenstein: The New Order: 602.159
Ultra Street Fighter IV: 451.366
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance: 444.266
Watch_Dogs: 422.965
Sniper Elite 3: 381.379
Alien: Isolation: 329.649
Final Fantasy XIII: 327.959
Far Cry 4: 322.887
Child of Light: 257.295
The Evil Within: 250.533
Valkyria Chronicles: 210.299
Shovel Knight: 208.609
Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes: 192.042
Resident Evil 4 HD: 170.403
Final Fantasy XIII-2: 159.922
Assassin’s Creed Unity: 179.532



Angelus on 05 March 2015

Wow. I didn't know the master race plays so much crap lol



Lawlight on 05 March 2015
episteme said:
Some numbers of games that console gamers should know http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/03/steam-gauge-measuring-the-most-popular-steam-games-of-2014/3/

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor: 977.790
Thief: 971.028
DARK SOULS II: 964.266
South Park: The Stick of Truth: 929.442
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare: 787.439
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel: 741.457
Wolfenstein: The New Order: 602.159
Ultra Street Fighter IV: 451.366
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance: 444.266
Watch_Dogs: 422.965
Sniper Elite 3: 381.379
Alien: Isolation: 329.649
Final Fantasy XIII: 327.959
Far Cry 4: 322.887
Child of Light: 257.295
The Evil Within: 250.533
Valkyria Chronicles: 210.299
Shovel Knight: 208.609
Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes: 192.042
Resident Evil 4 HD: 170.403
Final Fantasy XIII-2: 159.922
Assassin’s Creed Unity: 179.532

Interesting. I was expecting sales to be much higher. With how cheap games are, I wonder how much of a profit publishers make from Steam.



badgenome on 05 March 2015
Lawlight said:

Interesting. I was expecting sales to be much higher. With how cheap games are, I wonder how much of a profit publishers make from Steam.

Probably not as much as they "should". That's why Rockstar keeps kicking that GTA5 can down the road.



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Emperorbach on 05 March 2015

And people wonder why alot of devs arent that bothered withPC ports
lot of these top selling games are F2P + steam sales



episteme on 05 March 2015
Lawlight said:

Interesting. I was expecting sales to be much higher. With how cheap games are, I wonder how much of a profit publishers make from Steam.

The ones that I bought on Steam did pretty well imo (Dark Souls 2, South Park, MGR). I also have Thief, but it was part of a bundle.

Ubisoft games like Far Cry 4 were mostly sold on Uplay.

But yeah, the holiday 2014 games were probably still too expensive for average PC gamers.



binary solo on 05 March 2015

Bu..bu..bu..but PC has 175 million gamers*

So Steam isn't a happy hunting ground for the mainstream high selling AAA games. However, 900K for Shadow of Mordor = Xb one physical sales of the game. And it came close to being the best selling place for Dark Souls II, falling just short of PS3 physical sales. So it is a good place for those lower tier AAA games, matching and in some cases exceeding the console version.





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episteme on 05 March 2015
shikamaru317 said:

Wow, Thief did surprisingly well on PC, better than the PS4 version. Considering how well it did I'm surprised that Square Enix laid off most of the development team. 

Hehe, I bought it, too because it was in the Eidos Anthology for 25,99 € (all Tomb Raider, Hitman, Deus Ex and Thief games + some more).

It probably didn't that well at a higher price.



outlawauron on 05 March 2015
episteme said:
Some numbers of games that console gamers should know http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/03/steam-gauge-measuring-the-most-popular-steam-games-of-2014/3/

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor: 977.790
Thief: 971.028
DARK SOULS II: 964.266
South Park: The Stick of Truth: 929.442
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare: 787.439
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel: 741.457
Wolfenstein: The New Order: 602.159
Ultra Street Fighter IV: 451.366
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance: 444.266
Watch_Dogs: 422.965
Sniper Elite 3: 381.379
Alien: Isolation: 329.649
Final Fantasy XIII: 327.959
Far Cry 4: 322.887
Child of Light: 257.295
The Evil Within: 250.533
Valkyria Chronicles: 210.299
Shovel Knight: 208.609
Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes: 192.042
Resident Evil 4 HD: 170.403
Final Fantasy XIII-2: 159.922
Assassin’s Creed Unity: 179.532

Hmm, this only makes me doubt their data collection slightly. Certain titles don't coorelate with the top sellers.



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