Quite nice overview of Steam sales in 2015

Malabooga

https://medium.com/steam-spy/preliminary-results-for-steam-sales-in-2015-43bb49a767bd#.uaan04xyu

nice to put number on sales. Not 100% accuarate but still not very inaccurate either

Pynda

That was interesting, thanks for the post. I guess the reason for a 3 year old game, Counterstrike GO, being the top seller must be esports? Although I really don't stay in touch with the first person shooter segment of gaming.

Xeno.phon

Pynda said:

That was interesting, thanks for the post. I guess the reason for a 3 year old game, Counterstrike GO, being the top seller must be esports? Although I really don't stay in touch with the first person shooter segment of gaming.

Nope it is the top selling because so many people hack in it and get banned, then they need to buy another copy on another account.

Rusque

Xeno.phon said:

Pynda said:

That was interesting, thanks for the post. I guess the reason for a 3 year old game, Counterstrike GO, being the top seller must be esports? Although I really don't stay in touch with the first person shooter segment of gaming.

Nope it is the top selling because so many people hack in it and get banned, then they need to buy another copy on another account.

Hm, while there are cheaters, it never really helped it in the past. The big boost in sales came when CS GO started their custom skin sales, it really revitalized the game. It only take something small to build a community around and this was it. Something to strive for, showing off, etc.

stevebombsquad

What is amazing is how well Ark has sold. Also, ESO selling 1.5 million copies since April on steam alone is pretty good too.

Quesa

Xeno.phon said:

Pynda said:

That was interesting, thanks for the post. I guess the reason for a 3 year old game, Counterstrike GO, being the top seller must be esports? Although I really don't stay in touch with the first person shooter segment of gaming.

Nope it is the top selling because so many people hack in it and get banned, then they need to buy another copy on another account.

Ignoring the super-cynical report.  It's a good competitive shooter being responsive and low video requirements.

Malabooga

stevebombsquad said:

What is amazing is how well Ark has sold. Also, ESO selling 1.5 million copies since April on steam alone is pretty good too.

Ummm, no, theres no ESO on any list. BUT its here

http://steamspy.com/app/306130

some over 400k owners

Theres also one nice piece of info on Skyrim here:

http://steamspy.com/app/72850

it has over 9 000 000 owners. So anyone who claims  it sold only 15% on PC can poke himself in the eye ;P

Kefo

Malabooga said:

stevebombsquad said:

What is amazing is how well Ark has sold. Also, ESO selling 1.5 million copies since April on steam alone is pretty good too.

Ummm, no, theres no ESO on any list. BUT its here

http://steamspy.com/app/306130

some over 400k owners

Theres also one nice piece of info on Skyrim here:

http://steamspy.com/app/72850

it has over 9 000 000 owners. So anyone who claims  it sold only 15% on PC can poke himself in the eye ;P

Skyrim had a free weekend so that data is not reliable.

Malabooga

Kefo said:

Malabooga said:

stevebombsquad said:

What is amazing is how well Ark has sold. Also, ESO selling 1.5 million copies since April on steam alone is pretty good too.

Ummm, no, theres no ESO on any list. BUT its here

http://steamspy.com/app/306130

some over 400k owners

Theres also one nice piece of info on Skyrim here:

http://steamspy.com/app/72850

it has over 9 000 000 owners. So anyone who claims  it sold only 15% on PC can poke himself in the eye ;P

Skyrim had a free weekend so that data is not reliable.

Thats why i said over 9m, not over 10m as it actually shows.

In any case it very large number and its not "only 15% of sales" in any stretch of imagination. And thats only on Steam.