blind biker
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Does anybody have any current Civ V sales figures, or at least an approximate but fact-supported estimate? No 3-month old crapola, but fresh(er) info.
Current and accurate Civ V sales figures?
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Maniacal
the green Napoleon
There aren't any, as nobody tracks digital sales besides the digital retailers themselves, and they don't release those figures publicly. I don't know of any game developer/publisher which posts exactly what the sales have been.
this is insane when u think about it, all other media (that i can think of) advertise sales figures as a sign of success, movies release week 1 box office sales, music charts are based of sales figures, best seller shelves in the book stores and yet game quality is based of professional reviews and random internet polls ... what the hell is that??
some games advertise sales figures, minecraft passed the 1 mil mark a month or so ago, WOW continues to advertise the size of the subscriber base .. and im sure i have seen others, but definatly in the monority with games
best figure u can use is the people playing the game now stat in steam ... but that doesnt really compare against most of the market out there
some games advertise sales figures, minecraft passed the 1 mil mark a month or so ago, WOW continues to advertise the size of the subscriber base .. and im sure i have seen others, but definatly in the monority with games
best figure u can use is the people playing the game now stat in steam ... but that doesnt really compare against most of the market out there
wolfigor
Emperor
it really depends on the easiness of tracking sales/views and the value of such numbers for marketing.
For example, In case of TV shows, the views-count is a tool to measure the value for advertisers.
In WoW it's a way to show the richness of multiplayer environment.
For most games, especially for the likes of ciV, there is no big market value in publishing sales figures.
Looking the achievement I was really surprised by:
Last Man Standing (Win any Multiplayer Match): 1.9%
MP games are not popular at all!
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Edgecrusher
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How many users can actually play multiplayer?
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
I've seen a few people on my friend's list play a few games all the way through, but yeah multiplayer doesn't seem to be that popular. (Which isn't surprising with grand strategy games, most of them aren't multiplayer focused).
EDIT: From this article which is using information from some financial firm's ESTIMATES for 2010 Steam sales, I'd say Civ5 has done pretty well.
jtb1127
Deity
Good question. Maybe the real firaxis studio lacks in informative content too. They should probably download Info Addict.
Although it's not sales stats, Steam publishes real-time stats of who is playing what games on their service. Link here.
Civ is consistently in the top-10. People are playing this game. They play the heck out of it. As I post this on a Saturday afternoon, over 26,000 people are playing it right now. That number goes up in the evening hours.
Civ is consistently in the top-10. People are playing this game. They play the heck out of it. As I post this on a Saturday afternoon, over 26,000 people are playing it right now. That number goes up in the evening hours.
blind biker
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I wonder why is he dividing by 60. If we take the game to cost USD 50, that makes a bit more than 400.000 Steam sales. Add about 600.000 retail which I saw mentioned (but that is an old figure), and it turns out, Civ V may have sold more than 1M "copies". Yes, that is a solid number.
Zdarg
Prince
Where exactly?
Here in Russia price of legal CD (without Babelon) is $20-30, depending of shop.
Well their UA is crap.
Also:
When comparing Civ5 to COD you have to realize that COD has a much wider base and will therefore sell way more regardless of the medium so I'm not sure you can draw any conclusions from comparing the numbers presented.
FramedArchitect
Reluctant Modder
As of a few weeks ago:
http://www.vgchartz.com/game/43507/sid-meiers-civilization-v/Global/
For comparison:
There was a huge fall off very early, with a bounce when they did some advertising in Oct. 2010, and another bounce from Christmas sales. 2011 sales dropped precipitously.
Expansion 1 (GnK) provided a good lift to sales last year, but this year's Expansion 2 (BNW) has not had a similar effect.
Prediction: A poor second expansion will relegate this title to increasing obscurity. As a CiV modder, this has forced me to reconsider undertaking planned larger projects.
http://www.vgchartz.com/game/43507/sid-meiers-civilization-v/Global/
For comparison:
- CiV: 1.26 Million
- Civ IV: ~ 3.0 Million
- Civ III: ~ 2.0 Million
There was a huge fall off very early, with a bounce when they did some advertising in Oct. 2010, and another bounce from Christmas sales. 2011 sales dropped precipitously.
Expansion 1 (GnK) provided a good lift to sales last year, but this year's Expansion 2 (BNW) has not had a similar effect.
Prediction: A poor second expansion will relegate this title to increasing obscurity. As a CiV modder, this has forced me to reconsider undertaking planned larger projects.
Securion
Civ Veteran
Not really that surprising since Civ5 was pretty stupid when it was shipped.
It has gotten better with the expansions though, but many people probably just gave up on it after playing Vanilla version.
Lets hope Civ6 is better and not as dumbed down.
It has gotten better with the expansions though, but many people probably just gave up on it after playing Vanilla version.
Lets hope Civ6 is better and not as dumbed down.
anandus
Errorist
Well, the irony is that to have more sales, game developers need a bigger audience and thus dumb it down.
A lot of people find Civ5 as it is to be too complicated already (and thus don't play or buy it).
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