Recent content by IntelligentDisk

We're seeing the first 2-week period over 60% positive. 309 positive, 187 negative, 496 total reviews. 62.3% positive.

Numbers stagnating or declining in the first year of a game is completely normal. 6.5k on Steam, how many on other platforms? Civ VI was at 14-16k at this point only being released on Steam while being more affordable and having more sales at a higher discount.

I don't think the substandard release of Civ VII had anything to do with that. They likely were aware that Civ VII was unfinished and didn't care enough. With GTA VI, they care. That's their future breadwinner.

Despite the launch of Europa Universalis V, update 1.3 saw a higher 1st day update peak than the previous 5 updates at 10,648. Over 1,100 higher than the previous best which 1.2.2 saw (9,532). It's also: the highest midweek peak since the end of May highest number of positive reviews in a day...

Civ VI didn't go on sale for 50% until just after a year after it's released, so that would be March 2026 for Civ VII, however VI had already been on sale for 40% by this point and VII has only just gone on sale for 35% for the first time, so it might be even beyond March next year that it goes...

No, I doubt it. An increase in sales is maybe likely but impossible to gauge how big that increase would be. The one Civ "classic mode" or whatever it is would probably have a bigger impact. The biggest impact will always be discounts. I think we will be seeing the first 40% sale this month...

SteamDB is also 51% (50.8% to be specific) over the past 30 days. 897 reviews, 456 positive, 441 negative. It's the second highest 30 day period since the period of February 7th to March 8th, so a day after "early access" launch. We're now seeing 7 day periods over 60% positive for the first...

I just posted the exact percentages in my reply to you.

Only the August sale saw a big drop in the positive %. From a comment I left yesterday:

Yeah there isn't really a correlation between Steam positive review % and player numbers. If there was you'd expect Civ VII to have much worse player retention than it does now, but it actually has better player retention than some other well rated (~80%) strategy games like Age of Wonders 4...

September not getting an update isn't the only reason why the player count was much lower. The player count dropped almost immediately at levels not seen before, my theory was students going back to school, college and university. September tends to see a drop of players on Steam overall. I...

Only the August sale saw a big drop in the positive %. June 26th - July 9th sale (2 weeks) 2 weeks before sale: 32% 2 week sale period: 35% 2 weeks after sale: 41.5% August 11th - August 24th sale (2 weeks) 2 weeks before sale: 48.5% 2 week sale period: 32.3% 2 weeks after sale: 38%...

Negative reviews stay even if the user ends up refunding the game. As far as I know, any discrepancies will be because either: Steam only counts Steam purchases in their graph whereas SteamDB counts all. Time/date differences. Steams count starts on the 5th February, SteamDBs starts on the 6th...

As for players, October saw the highest peak concurrent player week for 21 weeks (9,990) but by the end dropped down to 8,071 which is the 6th lowest behind the 4 weeks in September and a week in June. Overall for the calendar month of October, it was slightly behind June to August. February -...

Reviews have gotten a lot better and are currently the best they've ever been. On October 31st we had the best reviewed day and the first "very positive" day at 94.1% positive (16 positive, 1 negative) We're currently in the best reviewed week period ever at 58% positive (109 positive, 79...