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SteamSpy is now sharing specific numbers again (experimental)
- Thread starter Nirolak
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For three months it's definitely not a bomb lol. This means the game is edging on 8 million total, which would make it top three best selling game in the franchise.
Maybe the more sophisticated mod tools with the level and quest editor coming in Fall could give it a push too. Right now there are only simple model and weapon swap tools. Some examples so far, lmao:
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Noctis' old outfit from Versus pre-2010:
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Oh my god bahaha, s'beautiful :'D
Yep.
Devs that think they can just wait a year and people won't gravitate to a different version.
I argue that it is kind of worth pointing out because it's both less than when it originally released, and has a $20 season pass of content added to it
Now, it wasn't going to sell gangbusters anyway after two years and mixed word of mouth.
Not everyone knows the extra content and if it's worth it. Some just see the game on the store and the price tag and that's all that matters. Btw, other games like Witcher 3 also sell the base game without the Season Pass for cheaper. For newcomers who only now got interested in FFXV the only option is at full price, outside of sales obviously (as there is currently).
Exactly, selling only "dlc edition" is honestly a bad move for a 2 years game. I doubt it's worth losing all the buyers that would have just wanted a base game sale. Like me, I would have bought the base game at launch if it wasnt a full price and i'm still debating if buying it at 50% sale, especially cause i know there's another season pass coming :/
Valve has the data but there's zero chance they would reveal it to us. There's no way pubs would sign off on that.
My guess is that it will be a feature geared towards devs that looks at multiple games and all the available data points, genres and whatever else. One might be thinking about making a roguelike metroidlike, and with some magical algorithm Valve will provide some estimates for how well that could potentially do. Something that would be useful for devs, but not really for us.
Or something.
For less than one month a release that doesn't seem too awful for a new IP. That's assuming it isn't particularly big budget.
its was at 900k before shutdown, its been on slae and its been months since steamspy shutdown. i am pretty sure they are pretty accurate, it only makes sesnse with the game being on 50 percent off twice i believe now since then.
It's been shutdown for a little over two months, and the last sale was in march.
https://steamcommunity.com/games/524220/announcements/
So I'm guessing the numbers are grossly inaccurate for lower selling games going from the example Dusk Golem just gave.
I wouldn't be too worried from some of these games with low numbers.
I wouldn't be too worried from some of these games with low numbers.
Will they port those games to ps4 or continue to ignore the PlayStation fan base
Presumably they don't need to use SteamSpy to check their own sales numbers...
I don't think XSEED'll ever port anything to PlayStation platforms themselves, just to PC/Steam.
Not that I want them to check their sales, but I wanted to check their sales.
Not really. It's a well done game in a popular franchise and in a genre that sells a lot on PC. It also stayed in the top 1/2 a looooot of time.
I think it's above that, actually. :P
500k sales would pay the development costs, according to Focus Home/Dontnod.
That's definitely a more than reasonable budget. It probably won't be there after a month but they will definitely hit that mark with console sales included.
500k for FFXV is great for what it's doing. It's a game that pushes PC hardware which is a niche in itself. It doesn't run well on anything that isn't a mid-high PC or better.
They are billions was around 750k before Steamspy numbers went down. Vermintide 2 devs already confirmed the game has sold 1 million copies. And Frostpunk hit 250k in it's first 3 days.
So these numbers are at least close. Hopefully though Valve commits to it's own alternative to Steamspy.
So these numbers are at least close. Hopefully though Valve commits to it's own alternative to Steamspy.
Yeah, if we count the consoles + PC i don't doubt it already hit that. Especially considering these numbers are the "minimum" sales target.
I think so. I could be wrong, though.
No, those numbers are actually quite incredible for a port of an older game. It is also not exclusive to Steam on PC.
Checking SteamSpy now, and comparing it with some of the old game numbers I remembered, I think this players number shown a lot less than the actual unit sold. Like Valkyria Chronicles it was around 800k before SteamSpy went down and now it shows only 768k players. It probably doesn't take owners who never installed or played the game into account. Regardless, a number is better than no number at all. It still stings that Valve kills SteamSpy just like that.
