SteamSpy - Approximate LTD sales for every game on Steam (Updated Daily)
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Fractured Space was free this weekend. The rules were different this time ("install it and keep it") so the number of owners only jumped by 700K and those are now actual owners of the game. Instead of usual 20M as it happened to every single game on a free weekend before.
I hope Valve with use this method in the future, even if it will not gift a game to everyone who cared enough to install it.
I hope Valve with use this method in the future, even if it will not gift a game to everyone who cared enough to install it.
Lords of the Fallen is just at 200k with half a year on the PC market. It's a souls-like game with a third-party DRM that's yet to be cracked. What's interesting to note is that the PC version of the game didn't sell in ratio higher than other non-DRM multiplats. It's also doing poorly compared to how the actual Souls games are selling on Steam.
Conclusion being that heavy uncrackable DRM doesn't boost your sales?
Conclusion being that heavy uncrackable DRM doesn't boost your sales?
Freedom = $1.05
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not seeing a correlation there, that assumption is a bit of a stretch.
You might want to add a note about how the players data is from just the last two weeks and not the total. It was confusing me how, for example, Cities: Skylines had 133K German owners but 149K players until I realised.
Yes, I will. I already saw a lot of confusion on Twitter
It's hard to come to a bulletproof conclusion since it's just one game, but if said game is compared to how other multiplat games are selling in ratio between platforms, then LOTF isn't enjoying higher-than-average ratio despite being DRM-protected.
Fuck yeah Austria.
I'm ashamed to not have contributed to that Finnish percentage.
Sure but LOTF is also incredibly mediocre and a new IP to boot.
Fuck yeah Austria.
How the hell there's more players than owners in some countries?
Family sharing?
Its in relationship to ALL players. For example, a higher-than-average amount of polish owners also play it, thus contributing higher on player percentage. It certainly does not mean that, in absolute numbers, more polish accounts play it then having it. I doubt that family sharing is prevalent enough to influence these numbers, but I can only guess.
It's possible. But it's hard to compare game titles with lopsided marketing campaigns/word of mouth presence.
I don't see why they would
NoCost is generally used for temporarily free things (add from page).
FreeOnDemand is used for permanently free (install from page, doesn't show in library unless DLC is owned)
AutoGrant is used for free weekends.
Has been this way long time. Don't see why they'd change and two next free weekends still use old (Grimoire: Manastorm & Skyrim)
I believe only GetOwnedGames api is used, which doesn't return family shared games, even if played.
(afaik, GetRecentlyPlayedGames api would return family shared games if played within two weeks).
It's share of total.
So if 100K own the game and 20K happen to be from US, then US share of owners is 20%.
Then only 50K played the game in the last two weeks and 15K of those happened to be from US. So US share of players in 30%.
All of this can be found through the site (or reading the thread):
http://steamspy.com/app/4500 SoC owners ~830K
http://steamspy.com/app/41700 CoP owners ~600K
http://steamspy.com/app/20510 CS owners ~450K
And for the people I've personally polled or heard from have all said that the data is usually within margin for titles that have over 10K owners, but there have also been games that aren't quite within the margin.
Yes, I just haven't added a range selection yet.
NoPiece
Member
So Broken Age (complete edition) has been out for a week and a half, and is basically showing 0 new sales from a month ago (estimate was 261k owners on 4/6 and 260k on 5/6. Did the release of part 2 totally bomb that bad, or are new sales somehow not counting in with the original SKU. The numbers look bleak for DF...
charlequin
Banned
I mean, who exactly was interested in Broken Age enough to pay full price for it but not to buy it already, in advance of Part 2?
But check out "Audience in two weeks" tab. People are playing it.
It just that Broken Age Act 1 was basically a demo bundled with preorder for a full game.
And now that we've got us a full version that we've paid for two years ago, so there is no point in buying it again.
I actually bought it again for iPad. I love classic quests on iPad and you can transfer your Steam saves there.
CecilRousso
Member
Something is a bit weird. It didn't storm the charts, but it did sell some copies.
But a problem for them is that Steam didn't treat it as a release, just an update, so it got pretty much zero exposure on the store page.
BTW, Apple put Broken Age on a front page and it gave the game a boost. It sold around 10K copies in a week on iOS, bringing it to total of 70K copies.
Still not much, compared to PC sales.
CecilRousso
Member
I think that all sales combined for them will turn up quite nicely in the long run, with Steam sales, iOS, Android and PS4/Vita giving them some revenue, even though it will not have set the charts on fire.
It's going to be interesting to see what numbers Steamspy gives it after the summer sale, if they can get a good spot there.
NumberThree
Member
The owner figures for crowdfunded games are interesting, if for nothing else than seeing how much more sales on top of the initial funding can be expected. Broken Age had 88k backers and is owned by 260k (3x), Pillars of Eternity had 74k backers and is owned by 330k (4,5x). Considering Broken Age is also available on other platforms (galyonkin said above it's around 70k sales on iOS), it should be well above the 4x total owners/backers ratio too.
Well, I did some digging and it seems to me that Broken Age made less than $2M outside Kickstarter.
While it's still impressive, it means that Double Fine was right to go Kickstarter, because Broken Age makes no financial sense without backers support. So if it weren't for Kickstarter, Broken Age wouldn't exist, because it wouldn't look profitable enough for publishers to fund it.
Pellegri Testament
Member
Just wondering what happened to Ys VI? It seems to have dropped 2k+ over the last day and has the "free weekend/old game"(it came out a week ago) label attached to it now, which it hasn't had either of which.
There was always a curiosity in Early Access games fully releasing and seeing what impact it has on sales. Do people wait for the 1.0 version? Does the majority already buy it in EA?
With Broken Age you also have the split to 2 parts. Will people wait for the whole thing before buying or get it for Act 1 and then wait for the continuation? So it should be interesting to at Broken Age, Broken Sword 5, Dreamfall Chapters and generally at Early Access -> full release transitions.
With Broken Age you also have the split to 2 parts. Will people wait for the whole thing before buying or get it for Act 1 and then wait for the continuation? So it should be interesting to at Broken Age, Broken Sword 5, Dreamfall Chapters and generally at Early Access -> full release transitions.
timetokill
Banned
Very cool tool! Glad this was bumped, I didn't see it the original time around (I think).
NumberThree
Member
Volgarr the Viking had 1,608 backers and is 185,782 ± 11,059 owners.
Yeah I'm sure there are a few games like that. Every now and then there's an interesting looking game I haven't even heard about before that turns out having been crowdfunded.
Volgarr the Viking had 1,608 backers and is at 185,782 ± 11,059 owners.
To be fair, Volgarr was in the AGDQ humble bundle early January this year.
I can't find detailed numbers on the active users, or is it not possible?
To see that 90% of our account is made for Dota 2 is kinda disheartening to be honest.
That's pretty crazy. Sounds like Valve putting that requirement in was pretty effective!
Boombox On
Member
"cut into" meaning decrease? No, it will just increase at a much slower rate.
That's what I meant. I cant see the numbers going down really.
NoPiece
Member
Well, unfortunately for Double FIne, you are totally right. I thought there would have been some people who wanted to wait for the whole game before they bought it, plus a group that may have missed it the first time, but heard about it with the recent round of press and reviews. I was guessing Broken Age was going to do another 50k in sales, but looks like they will be extremely lucky if they can do 5k. Maybe there is some pent up demand at $5 during the steam summer sale.
Not necessarily, and, frankly, I don't see Valve applying "A retail key or gift activation does not count as a purchase" to its active account definition as any change for the sake of accuracy would give the impression that Steam's growth is slowing since the current definition is misleadingly broad: at least one purchase or been online in the past 90 days. Case in point: my original account, which hasn't been used in about a decade, is now considered "active" even though it's inactive in every reasonable sense of the word.
The reason Valve changed the definition of an active account is so it would include people who just play F2P games, but what Valve should have done is dropped the "At least one purchase" component entirely and left it at "Been online in the past 90 days".
Well, there are roughly 2.66M users from Indonesia, it's #20 in the list of countries by number of users on Steam.
But as it's #102 country in the world by GDP per capita, people aren't exactly buying a lot of games for obvious reasons.
It was, because the number of spam I get on Steam has gone down by at least a factor of 10.
Wait a second, how do we know about 10,000 copies being sold. Geniune curiosity.
charlequin
Banned
Oh snapplecakes, when did Steamspy get added to EnhancedSteam? I'm probably going to follow the store link rather than search directly on SteamSpy now, heh.