@zeromous,

So in that scenario that subscriber should only ever count as one sale. Canceling and renewing is not another sale, never suggested otherwise.

Understanding the digital/retail split would be interesting, especially in the PC space but I don't think TSE has the bandwidth to add more markets or dramatically reconfigure existing ones right now. For the time being, current GLS stocks should include all sales, retail or otherwise and that's the way it should be.

Given the even greater scarcity of digital download sales information, tracking them might encourage interest in TSE again and be a possible oppourtunity for KoC. Worth thinking about, IMO.

@zeromous,

The point of TSE as a prediction market is to make up for the fact that hard information on video game sales isn't made available. It isn't a bookmaker which needs to "pay out" at a specified time. TSE is a market.

If a payout based on concrete information is made important to you then stick to just the futures. In terms of the GLS stocks, a video game can potentially sell for an infinite amount of time, especially in the digital age. No data made available will ever have any finality about it.

Sales are sales, the distribution channel is irrelevant.

Subscribers should certainly not be counted as 'sales' but in the case of WoW, at least when it was on The9, a subscriber would first have to acquire a CD-Key to allow them to buy the game. That's as good as a sale in my book.

On the other hand, as games trend towards a free-to-play / microtransaction / virtual goods model then "sales" will become even more irrelevant.