Player stats, sales, and reception speculation thread

[Kwami]

Having a shortlist suggest games kind of ruins the whole thing, doesn't it? Most people will just pick from the shortlist to get their Steam badges.

 

[Haig]

How have the player numbers been for a past week or two? Any improvement?

 

[IntelligentDisk]

Today is the first day since March where there have been more than 100 positive reviews. But, for perspective, we'd need a lot more days like yesterday (78.9% positive) and today (82.4% positive so far) to pull the Steam recent reviews up from "mixed" territory (40% - 69%) to "mostly positive" territory (70% - 79%). If the volume of reviews with a similar positivity ratio is sustained over a week of days like the last few, perhaps that will be enough to put the Steam recent reviews percentage over that threshold (currently 57% positive), but it is quite a hill to climb still. Perhaps the release of the second half of the free DLC will help.
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Highest since March 4th! This high amount of positive reviews won't last long though, only until the nomination week is done. It's quite telling though how many people who enjoy the game haven't reviewed, and what a "complete" review positive % rating might look like if everyone did.

How have the player numbers been for a past week or two? Any improvement?

Much better numbers than the past 5 updates. Week 4 has just begun.

now set the Y axes at zero...

What would that change?

 

[CanuckSoldier]

It's too bad we can't get Console stats for Civ7...I think sales in NA are fairly good in the sector. The attached stats includes Console sales and puts Civ7 at #7 they obviously aren't getting to that on the steam PC sales....

 

[tedhebert]

It's too bad we can't get Console stats for Civ7...I think sales in NA are fairly good in the sector. The attached stats includes Console sales and puts Civ7 at #7 they obviously aren't getting to that on the steam PC sales....

This dates from last april....

 

[CanuckSoldier]

This dates from last april....

True but its all that available in cyber-land, at least it speaks to early sales and you can reasonably presume that Console sales are still strong at least in NA...I know this as in multiplayer the major PC players are Euros, and a large percentage on NA players are on consoles...its a 2025 thing I guess

 

[IntelligentDisk]

We've now seen the first "mostly positive" week of Civ VII (over 70%) at 70.7% positive, as well as our first 30-day period above 60% positive at 64.1% positive. The previous week peak was 68.9% positive from October 31st to November 6th.

It's worth noting the first 70%+ positive week of Civ VII is due to the past 2 days of increased positive reviews from the Steam Award nomination week. The first 30-day period above 60% was going to happen soon regardless as it was already peaking at 59% on an upwards trajectory prior to the past 2 days.

30-Day period: October 28th to November 26th.
Week period: November 20th to November 26th.