So what do you guys think about the fight between Steam and EA?
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I remember reading that when you breakdown each of the platforms, DAO sold most on PC..
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actually that's probably pretty fair as i know many PC gamers (myself included) were totally turned off my the direction of DA2 compared to DAO
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Good point. It is likely my DA2 numbers are skewed far too low on PC as well then.
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Sales of Civilization series, Total War series then.
Im sure even as a console port Space Marines did well
You can't look at VG Charts for PC Sales reports, mainly because they don't account for...
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HUUUUUGERESTEST point right there...
Quick:
- What is the X360's symbol?
- What is PS3s symbol?
- What is a PC's symbol?
- What titles have you seen recently advertised for X360?
- What...
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Not to mention profit margins are significantly higher on PC as well. Publishers get 70% cut on PC whereas it's roughly 20-40% on consoles.
In regards to Crysis, the game ended up selling 3...
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10x is stretching it. Taking Dragon Age 2 as an example, the breakdown went:
XB360 - 790k
PS3 - 430k
PC - 290k
Clearly each console outsold the PC, but PC made up 20-25% of sales overall and...
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I think a lot of the reason why you don't see ridiculous PC sales numbers comes down to two things- the barrier of entry into PC gaming (not just costs but the ambiguity in hardware requirements) but...
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all the games you mentioned are purchased for multiplayer.
if you look at games that have strong single player and no multiplayer you'll see that the console version sell 10 times what the pc...
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This, and since PC doesn't have a rental market and many games don't provide a demo, d/ling a game as a trial before purchase isn't a totally unreasonable practice.
I use the method Phrozt...
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Enter Steam:
"We'll just make ridiculous sales so you end up buying shittons of games you'll never play!"
Kind of a fun turn on piracy.
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Not to mention there are actually a significant amount of people out there that'll actually buy the game and download the cracked version as well simply because they don't want to deal with DRM.
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The question isn't whether people do or don't d/l a game. The question is if the people who d/led the game would have paid for it if it wasn't freely available.
Without getting into convoluted...
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anecdotal evidence are always true :rolleye2:
How's piracy treating Starcraft II (hint: over 1.5mil sold after 48 hrs from launch)? World of Warcraft(i dont think i have to expand on this)? Black...
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they did release a bunch of the old gamertags from the early days of xbox live..
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In any case, IT IS TWO YEARS! If you don't use their service at all for 2 years...what is going to make you randomly decide you want to go and pick it up again?
I wish Xbox had some thought to...
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It's pretty confusing for user's how they it say in TOS. But your post make me little more calm
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i used to dl games and play them instead of buying them. case and point. i know i'm not the only one.
the majority of the big sellers have multiplayer that is why they sell.
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EA has already addressed that one. It's only for dupe accounts. If you own a game on Origin, you won't get your account deleted no matter how long it's been inactive..
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Is it true that Origins deletes your account or games if they are not used for 24 months? I googled it google.com] and some sites escapistmagazine.com] are saying that its in their tos:
Here is...
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