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GamesIndustry.biz: Why did so many people buy Elden Ring? (Survey conducted)
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Survey only 200 people.
70 of them say they actually bought the game
130 of them did not buy the game
Why did so many people buy Elden Ring?
70 of them say they actually bought the game
130 of them did not buy the game
Why did so many people buy Elden Ring?
Interesting to see Starfield as the most highly anticipated game of 2022!
Game is going to be huge and is going to add a ton of Game Pass subscriptions.
Game is going to be huge and is going to add a ton of Game Pass subscriptions.
I'm curious if the high sales result in the opposite effect they wanted for the Completion Rate (As the goal was to have this with the most completions)
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Just shows how much can even can more sell. When it hits 12 million in 3 weeks.
It's not that surprising to me. It's Bethesda's first big ass game from Bethesda proper since what, Fallout 4? New IP, interest piqued by many with Game Pass becoming such a big thing...and Zelda shuffled off the board. It's gonna do very well.
I'm a bit confused.
24% of those 35%? Or 24% total?
Either 1 in 4 players who bought the game were new to the series, or 2 in 3 in case it's the latter, which would be very impressive and it'd make more sense considering the huge commercial success.
This is profoundly incorrect.
You can survey ~800-1000 people in the US and end up with a very accurate predictor of Presidential election results. It is safe to say that 200 gamers are enough to gain insights into gamer sentiment around Elden Ring.
Fallout 4 shipped 12 million copies on day 1. Bethesda games have always been massive.
Not when the topic of the survey is, "why did you buy Elden Ring"
Survey 200 people that actually purchased the game.
You mean an election where you vote for 1 of two parties or abstain?
I've been impressed by the Steam achievement percentages, when I beat it I noticed the last mandatory boss in the set was at around 25% completion, which seems very high to me for such a long challenging game that even I a relative Souls veteran only finished this week after playing regularly since launch.
Not in this case. I know people love to "correct" folks and say survey results are accurate with very few people, but it's simply not true for many surveys, especially ones like this.
Yeah, really weird survey, or title maybe. Don't know.
Also they didn't ask "people". They asked Hardcore Games that attend gaming events.
This is like asking "Why do so many people vote for the Republicans" and do the survey at a republican voters party.
I think its a multi-pronged answer here. 1. It hit at the right time. Not a whole lot going on right now. 2. A fantasy game with GRRM involved is an easy sell for a lot of people. 3. Word of mouth has been extremely positive 4. Elden Ring is MUCH more accessible than a lot of previous entries. 5. People are still REALLY hungry for big new games for the new consoles.
Well I guess the responders hear BOTW2 was delayed then lol
I do think responders talking about ELDEN RING would be more in the know, and it's only 200 ppl.
I kinda doubt if it was open to more ppl that Starfield would come out above GOW just since it's a new IP. If Zelda was an option as it would've been before last week it def wouldn't be #1 imo. I hope it does well but I think the sample size and target demo (Elden ring buyers) skews it
If you read the OP, you can see that Zelda was indeed #1 most anticipated, followed by Starfield. But since it was delayed to 2023 since that poll, Starfield comes out on top for 2022.
This survey was taken before BoTW2 delay was announced and consists of both people who did and didnt buy elden ring (70 : 130). Also BoTW2 was number 1 anticipated but now since its a 2023 game that makes the 2nd highest anticipated (Starfield) the most anticipated of 2022.
The target demo is a fixed group of multi-console owners that gameindustry.biz regularly (?) surveys, not Elden Ring players.
People flabbergasted at the concept of a shit ton of people buying a video game that is *checks notes* good and *turns page* kicks industry norms and *closes notebook* had a shit ton of marketing, most of which advertised that it had the involvement of a recognizable writer.
My mistake then, read way too fast at work lol
I doubt anyone is mistaken on the potential sales of the game titled "from the creators of Skyrim."
Well to be fair it did sell better than it's other Souls peers by an order of magnitude so it's a fair question; what made this one different?
Pretty sure it's already outsold DS3's entire lifetime sales or something like that
I feel like it's commonly ignored because "bugthesda" and since it's a new IP. Might just be my bubble but everytime I've heard people talk about big games this year and potential GOTY it seems like Starfield is always an afterthought. Hope they're proven wrong.
Interesting a lot of people seem to have been drawn to the game by George R R Martin being involved. Couldn't be further from my reason.
I bought the game as a new Souls player mainly for the following reasons:
- Cross platform availability meaning I could still play a 2022 game on my PS4
- Critical reception
- Learning that its open world nature meant you can't necessarily hit a wall, as you can always go somewhere else, level up and come back later
- Watching a bunch of gameplay videos to see if it would be my kind of thing
- Even then I almost didn't get it, and had actually decided not to, but a friend then messaged me in a similar boat (hadn't played a Souls game before) and talked me into it, saying it was really good
- It was also surprisingly cheap on Amazon UK at launch, I think 45 for the deluxe pack, which certainly helped
It was a hard sell, but I'm glad I picked it up. And no, I don't have any intention of playing any other From Software games. This is probably enough to last me a lifetime.
I bought the game as a new Souls player mainly for the following reasons:
- Cross platform availability meaning I could still play a 2022 game on my PS4
- Critical reception
- Learning that its open world nature meant you can't necessarily hit a wall, as you can always go somewhere else, level up and come back later
- Watching a bunch of gameplay videos to see if it would be my kind of thing
- Even then I almost didn't get it, and had actually decided not to, but a friend then messaged me in a similar boat (hadn't played a Souls game before) and talked me into it, saying it was really good
- It was also surprisingly cheap on Amazon UK at launch, I think 45 for the deluxe pack, which certainly helped
It was a hard sell, but I'm glad I picked it up. And no, I don't have any intention of playing any other From Software games. This is probably enough to last me a lifetime.
Yeah, I worked for a large energy supplier as a analyst generally looking into issues and producing solutions. We would max out at 200 sample size most the times. Often 100 depending on time.
You are probably not wrong. Like, I'm almost one of those people. Bethesda games normally don't click for me. I could only like Skyrim, but that was it. I see no appeal at all for Starfield and I can't relate to why people are excited about it. As you said as well, the "recent" attention they got from a release with a lot of bugs doesn't help that as well.
But then I have to remember that they just sell well and are probably not for me 🤷♂️
As others have noted, 200 isn't a very small sample size and can pretty reliably be extrapolated across the larger gaming demographic
And I'm with you. The only Bethesda game that ever sat with me is Skyrim. The older TES are too old for me and don't really like the Fallout aesthetic. So that's why, as a Skyrim fan, when Todd Howard says that Starfield is "Skyrim in space" that I got so excited. I love Skyrim, I love space, and I love voiced robots (VASCO 😍).
