This game in the UK and most probably Europe received a fair buzz because of the popularity of the free Enemy Territory mod which is still popular online.
When you see that many people playing on line I think it is safe to assume at least a couple of them bought the game. We do possess money in Europe after all it is us who pay over the odds for most things.
The point is this game does have a lengthy life, also it is on sale via Steam. A lot of sales will of taken place via that system. Valve do not release sales figures but believe me it is a very good medium for selling games.
Lastly, looking at some of the games on that site, you notice the Chinese and other Asian countries dominate the servers. Is that because they bought more copies than the US and Europe? No, they have PC cafes and other methods of getting online. Also, using month old and years old games to show how well a game sold in each region has a very shaky foundation for as evidence. Some cultures keep playing a game online longer than other and therefore months out it will look as if one country bought many more copies when in fact they just play the game online for longer. 25DKP tops.
Also, if some did not catch the metaphor, games like Counter-Strike, Battlefield, Unreal Tournament would benefit from added sales due to being online, but that is because they already had a large player base (from day one) to spread the word. This game has not had that kind of opportunity, so being online won't boost sales.
And welshbloke, all your site proves is that Europeans play online games for a longer period after they came out, not that they bought more copies. I will try to find data to back this up, but I'm pretty sure that America bought more copies of Counter-Strike than Europe, they just don't continue playing games online for so long without moving on to something new. Due to this, while I think we will see more European ET:QW servers, I do not think that will be due to the game selling more in Europe.
Again, 18,600 copies in its first month, likely 5,000 or less its second month and continued drop off from there, European sales are not going to propel this game to over 25DKP, which it where this should be tops.
But you also have to consider that people will instead of picking up this game, will continue to play the games they already have online, and the first month sales numbers seem to confirm this. People are now overestimating the effect of online, it gives a game legs if the game had a body to start with, but this game did not register on many people's radar and was overlooked and I doubt now that new games like Crysis and UT3 are coming out that people will suddenly pick this game up in mass quantities. Do you realize that this game sold 18,600 in its first month? This should be at 25DKP tops, games can be massive flops, this is a good example of one that did.
One easy way to see how popular PC gaming is in Europe is to do a server scan by country using something like the all seeing eye or www.game-monitor.com. Select the obvious such as Counter Strike and Battlefield 2142/2 and you should begin to get a feel for the interest in online PC gaming in Europe.
Just looking at it now and we see Germany has the highest number of CS servers being tracked, even more than the entire US. Now I always knew Germany was huge on PC gaming but that has even suprised me.
This type of game has legs, the online gameplay means the game continues to sell reasonable for long period of time.
This was played at my local LAN party (UK) and was the sleeper hit. I fully expected TF2 to be the game we played out the day on.
Like the Battlefield serious and other games with strong online communities you should expect a consistent steady trickle of sales. When I looked at the price of this stock I had to take a doulbe take, based on the NPD futures we have wiped off 100dkp+ do you really think this game is only going to sell 24dkp in its lifetime? I know we are Console centric but this is almost rude.
Speaking as a Eurupean this is right up the street of our German, UK and dare I say it French cousins.
@Gaara42, I'm not saying QW will sell fantastically - it certainly won't. But this kind of games sells much more in Europe than US. Can someone find Far Cry figures for instance? I'll look for it myself.
Shouldn't this actually be below 15DKP, it has sold about 1/3 of the copies it will sell over its lifetime in America (is this even lower for PC games, especially ones geared more toward the hardcore), which would give it 55,800 total sales (5.58DKP). This game will probably do worse in PAL regions, probably around 50,000 (5DKP). Giving some room for a longer tail and 15DKP seems about right.
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This game in the UK and most probably Europe received a fair buzz because of the popularity of the free Enemy Territory mod which is still popular online.
When you see that many people playing on line I think it is safe to assume at least a couple of them bought the game. We do possess money in Europe after all it is us who pay over the odds for most things.
The point is this game does have a lengthy life, also it is on sale via Steam. A lot of sales will of taken place via that system. Valve do not release sales figures but believe me it is a very good medium for selling games.