Can someone explain why some games miss data? Like europe..

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Mummelmann on 30 March 2008

Its hard to get filling and meaningful data from Europe, there are so many countries with different markets, rules and sovereignity.
There are also three unions interfering with markets; EU, Schengen and EØS.

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Strategyking92 on 30 March 2008

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ferret1094 on 30 March 2008

It's difficult but it's certainly an important issue that needs addressing. If someone comes to the site to find sales for a specific game and sees that half the data is missing then they won't be back. That's not good for the growth or image of the site.

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mrstickball on 30 March 2008

The big issue:

Even if IOI has the data, it takes time to MANUALLY merge the numbers together....There are (litterally) hundreds of games that need mereged, and require coding, and various work to do. ioi is one man (albiet very smart, and wonderful)....So it takes time.

But trust me, ioi will do it. I, like you, await some sort of AC6 sales numbers too, as it could hit 750k or more with Euro numbers some day.

Also, another issue is "others" includes........non-European countries like AUS, NZ, SK, Taiwan, and others - which have numbers very hard to track, at times.

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