those numbers dont mean anything at all.when i checked game monitor.com a few weeks ago just 894 stalker mp players were tracked...and when the game was released it was always in the pc top 10 for several weeks so now acc to ur logic that means the game must've hardly sold 1000 copies but thats not how it works most of the ppl bought stalker for the sp...same is the case with crysis ppl were bashing the beta when it came out but they were still excited bout the sp and if u check on game monitor.com only 14000 crysis players have been tracked it means that u cannot trust any third party site...heard somewhr that ea has released the numbers to a chosen few now if only i could catch hold of one of these guys so that i cud prove u ppl wrong......
In addition my experience of games like the battlefield series is that they are slow burners. Popular online games sell well long after other games have hit the discount bins.
Now that said, I know next to nothing about Crysis and whether it will have a slow burn effect such as the Battlefield games have had and ETQW will likely have.
It doesn't state where its numbers are from, but they are clearly worldwide. It lists about 46,000 players as being tracked.
Given that this total number is worldwide, I think it gives more reason to think that our Future is still overpriced. For one thing, a decent chunk of that number would be from outside the US...plus you have the usual spectre of piracy (google "crysis pirated" and you'll find over 3 million hits, including stories about the game being on torrent already).
I don't expect this future to end up much higher than Enemy Territory, and could even end up lower.
You have to realize that the gamers who have the ginormous specs to play Crysis would most probably have the capability to take the game online. I also echo Gaara42's request for a link to your claim.
pc games do sell well.....its just that they dont sell as fast as console games i mean bf2 tool 2 months to sell a million copies...so give it time it will sell
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