I don't know how big Alienware is (aside from the absurdly expensive PCs, I know nothing about them), but Steam will now be bundled with some of their PCs: http://store.steampowered.com/hardware/alienware/
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Kasz216 said:
No. A monopoly is when you hold a bunch of land next to each other, build really expensive rental properties and then force anyone who stands still outside of them for a few minutes to rent the house for a day at gunpoint.
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No. Monopoly is like matador. Only with some weird guy with a beard.
Matador
Monopoly.
damn. Just look at that crasy beard.
On topic. That's a pretty big percentage.
Check out my game about moles ^
Alienware is generally reviled - their pricing is almost as bad as Apple's.
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Should we be trusting this guy's word on the subject? It seems he's just guessing, and the article writer is calling him out that Impulse is the second biggest DD site out there. I too would think D2D would be the second biggest.
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I have no idea, but I wouldn't doubt that Steam has at least the majority of it, I suppose.
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I don't buy it. 70% of tracked DD through DD publishers like Steam, Impulse.... but 70% of all DD unlikely. It's impossible to track all the small companies who's games line up that don't use DD Distributors. For example http://www.taleworlds.com/index.html make Mount & Blade which download the game from file servers not DDD. How do games like this ever figure into the equation? they don't. Actually games like M&B don't ever figure into any equations of gaming sales. PC is strength is in Independent Digital Download, bot Distributor Digital Download.
So this figure is off.
Heres another game
http://tribaltrouble.com/
http://ghook.speedrungames.com/
http://www.waterstorm-game.com/portal/index.php
theres more, but i'm not going to spent that amount of time looking.
as I said else where monitoring all the games that come out on the PC is a massive undertaking since most of the smallers companies don't go through publishers.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
in the report:
"Based on discussions with publishers along with the numbers we are aware of, it is our belief that Impulse has become the second most popular digital distribution platform worldwide in terms of dollars generated per month."
while it's obvioulsy their own estimation, which they also have no reason to be "guessing", I don't really see why D2D must be bigger than Impulse, especially because you can't find Galactic Civilizations, Demigod and Sins of a Solar Empire anywhere else...
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| Onyxmeth said: Should we be trusting this guy's word on the subject? It seems he's just guessing, and the article writer is calling him out that Impulse is the second biggest DD site out there. I too would think D2D would be the second biggest. |
My guess is... he's estimating based off the sales of his products.
Kasz216 said:
My guess is... he's estimating based off the sales of his products. |
Aren't his products exclusive to his own site though?
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| .jayderyu said: I don't buy it. 70% of tracked DD through DD publishers like Steam, Impulse.... but 70% of all DD unlikely. It's impossible to track all the small companies who's games line up that don't use DD Distributors. For example http://www.taleworlds.com/index.html make Mount & Blade which download the game from file servers not DDD. How do games like this ever figure into the equation? they don't. Actually games like M&B don't ever figure into any equations of gaming sales. PC is strength is in Independent Digital Download, bot Distributor Digital Download. So this figure is off. Heres another game http://tribaltrouble.com/ http://ghook.speedrungames.com/ http://www.waterstorm-game.com/portal/index.php theres more, but i'm not going to spent that amount of time looking. as I said else where monitoring all the games that come out on the PC is a massive undertaking since most of the smallers companies don't go through publishers. |
That's true, there's literally thousands of sites where you can buy games.
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