Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Quick Links
SWTOR Pre-orders jump 62k in a week
Xondar123
Member CommonPosts: 2,543
{mod edit- removed link. Info may be found via VGChartz.com}
Comments
Ya and that just in the americas, It will easily sell 2-3 million copies.
GJ
Due to the weekend beta testers and their 3 friends who watched them play? Mass beta invites started on the 7th...coincidence?
"LOL"
Almost 600k then for America then.
I am curious if that includes digital preorders through Origin. As digital downloads on pc games have been increasing over the years up to around 50% of total game sales according to some researches. Here's one from last year.
It's still around 9 weeks to launch so with a conservative average of 40k additional preorders each week = around 900k preorders in the America's + around the same number in digital preorders = 1.8 million America's only. Double that for the rest of the world and we are at 3.6 million people wanting to jump in at launch 0_0
That is ... if the info in the OP excludes digital preorders. If it includes them the grand total would be around 2 million.
My brand new bloggity blog.
That chart is from vgchartz website. And no it does not include any digital orders or European pre orders. Only american stores and sites like amazon (i am not sure about the online orders).
Currently Playing: SSFIV AE, SFxTekken, SWTOR, WoW. Waiting for: GW2, Resident Evil 6.
That website redirected me to a porn site which attempted to install a fake Adobe Flash Player (almost certaintly a virus).
Sarcasm is not a crime!
Well, I can certainly say after the beta last weekend, that you can count me among those preorders just as soon as I can pull the money together.
Are you sure thats not a virus on your computer? I clicked the site and viewed what the OP was talking about without being redirected anywhere just fine.
On-topic: In other words, the game will make up its investment costs regardless of its quality, not counting box sales after the game releases. I find it sad that games no longer have to stand up on their own merits, but instead can take advantage of how easily people will throw money at things.
Sarcasm is not a crime!
I just finished scanning, and no viruses found. I have adblock plus and a hosts file list to prevent ads, but noscript was disabled.
No harm done, but just be wary. Maybe post the screenshot instead of the website?
Sarcasm is not a crime!
A game-dev has certain 'trusts' if they produce things a person likes on a consistant basis, just like all labels.
e.g I buy an Intel CPU because I liked the performance I got the last time I bought it.
A 'Made by Bioware' label = 'Buy' for the millions of people out there, including myself.
Those who grew up playing Baldurs Gate series or bought Mass Effect/Dragon Age series recently etc.
Gdemami -
Informing people about your thoughts and impressions is not a review, it's a blog.
It was more a comment on the genre, not this specific case. Pretty much all MMORPGs are successes, failure or not, simply because people throw money at them like crazy.
Sarcasm is not a crime!
"reported as an attack page", please mods delete the OP link, it is a .ru scam or virus infection page. If your link have valid content OP please find an other none infected link.
That link redirected me to some page promising naked videos of celebrities. Remove the link and find an alternative please OP.
http://www.vgchartz.com/preorders.php
Link to to actual site where the list is from.
Currently Playing: SSFIV AE, SFxTekken, SWTOR, WoW. Waiting for: GW2, Resident Evil 6.
Hype dont make good games, and who cares about preorders (AoC anyone) ? wait for reviews and then decide. In first few weeks there will be lags, queues and bugs anyway.
Thanks for the info and i also got some popup from some add so seems like theirs add /spyware when trying to go to site.
I just clicked the link, page showed up, then avast Antivirus went mental, flashing red, trojan detected. Careful
edited to add...
The second link is fine.
So, ignore VGChartz for a moment.
Battlefield 3 preorders are over 1.25 million globally.
SWTOR, by EA's own words, is their biggest preorder title ever.
Therefore, SWTOR already has more than 1.25 million preorders globally.
I'd rather trust EA's own statements than VGChartz.
I can think up an awesome way to make an absolute boatload of money.
Step 1. Create a new corporation.
Step 2. Get a bunch of buddies together and make a basic MMOG.
Step 3. Market it with awesome feature lists and a gameplay video or five (modified to look good).
Step 4. Start a closed beta with an NDA, and have your buddies go to various forums to hype it up.
Step 5. Make millions of dollars.
That may sound like an exaggeration, but I don't doubt it's possible. The point is, if even the failures are successful, then what incentive is there for developers to make better games?
That is why I care about pre-orders.
Sarcasm is not a crime!
When NDP used to publish numbers that were somewhat questionable,Ea was asked about the numbers and they said they had no clue.Ea in that article i read acted like NDP knew better abvout their sales than anyone,including EA themselves.
EA actually would have almost no clue whatsoever on pre order sales,because they will supply outlets by the millions.Of those millions of boxes they sell outlets they have no clue how many are preorders,only the outlets would know that.The Npd group used to have the most diverse coverage of sales as they covered about 75% of possible sales,but nobody has a complete resource to give any kind of accurate numbers.
If that link/site somehow had access to the Npd,who btw no longer publish publicly their numbers,then i would say it is 75% accurate.However that site posted no source at all,so i doubt it is anything more than a fanbois at that site trying to gather more fanbois hype.
I made my own prediction of easily a couple million games will be sold,prolly 3-5 million,what does that matter to me?I buy a game I want to play ,nothing anyone could say or any numbers posted will ever change that.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
I'm getting sick of people posting VGCharts numbers as factual information. Most of their numbers are guesses at best, downright lies at worst.
The few that are factual are only obtained by company financial releases which are generally not avaliable for pre-orders due to the company not having actually made any money from the product yet.
PS: For those that didn't read the whole thread, do not click the link in the OP, you may possibly be redirected to a pornographic website where you computer may become infected.
"There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
Hmmm . . . proof please. Any link to a known reliable source that agrees with you will do. Otherwise YOU are the one that is "guessing at best, downright lying at worst".
"If half of what you tell me is a lie, how can I believe any of it?"
Don't get too excited, these pre-orders are from people in the honeymoon phase levels 1-20.
It's kinda funny its kinda like conan in that respect, levels 1-20 you are like ooooh ahhhh and then it hits you..
Can't really get into the details but just know that right now the field is split 50-50 with long term testers.
Hopefully the NDA is lifted soon so the testers that have been at it awhile can give you a complete picture of the game,
its positives and negatives so that you can have a honest and complete knowledge to base a decision.
This whole marketing scheme, the sooner you pre-order the sooner you get into the headstart is really kinda of assinine for a game that has an NDA still in place. 2 million people X $5, even if half of them cancel thier pre-orders they still pocket 5 million dollars off those that walk away.