Comments on: PC Game Sales: The Mysterious 14%

By: mike

mike — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:26:27 +0000

lol at piracy, piracy is stealing the game, they said ONLINE SALES idiot, its called a catalog if you’ve never heard one and yes, they are online, ever heard of amazon.com? its something similar to that so before you yell piracy why dont you get the cutlass out of your arse and think before you post.

Buying stuff online is much better, you don’t pay for gas, you don’t have to pay as much since you can buy it from the developing company. there are so many things that are better about getting your stuff online and since more and more people are finding about how much better it is for you to get it online its only natural that stores arent selling as much when people find it much cheaper/easier to get their products online.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:16:43 +0000

Thats ok, I was mainly seeking clarification – its not your grasp of language that is at fault, it is the nature of the internet.

By: Yang

Yang — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:11:19 +0000

@Nick
it was supposed to be sarcastic.. I’m sorry if my limited grasp of English language made it sound otherwise

*addition for previous post. Maybe my lack of an Internet connection made me a little paranoid (recently moved, posting via mobilephone)

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:54:47 +0000

“prosecute every WOW player etc, which I TOTALLY believe is coming”

..?

By: Yang

Yang — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:47:08 +0000

@heliocentric
IIRC no console use online DRM? You can play a console offline for lifetime if you wish.
Though seen things as it goes, the compulsory-onlineness may as well infect nextgen hardwares. Alas, the horror of not able to be a freak who plays alone..

*additional question: what qualifies as the DRM people hate? Surely having to put in a disc doesn’t count?

By: Yang

Yang — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:17:44 +0000

Well as i read the gamedaily article, NPD did not say PC gaming is dead, and keeps no secret that the figure does not include #insert whatever they left out here#, so i think the flaks NPD got is undeserved. It is not they who interprete the numbers to mean “Death of pc gaming”, it’s the fanboys and …big Ps? (why it was of their interest to kill off PC gaming anyway? Besides, claiming something is dead NEVER make it drop dead, to kill it would take some action, like stop making games for pc, prosecute every WOW player etc, which I TOTALLY believe is coming)
*it is like calling console games dumbed down doesn’t suddenly make every console gamer’s brain rot*
And why all these “pre-emptive defence” even the bomb is yet to fall? It’s a (partial) number for yesteryear people, get over it.

By: Kanakotka

Kanakotka — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:49:50 +0000

Digital distribution is probably over half of PC sales.

By: Petrushka

Petrushka — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:45:48 +0000

What rationales are there for folks like Steam and Stardock not reporting their sales? On first thought it seems to me that their reporting their sales figures would provide a substantial boost to the PC games industry, as it would provide solid evdience that the PC is not even remotely dead. Surely such a boost would be in their interest. What am I missing?

By: Erlam

Erlam — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:54:37 +0000

I bought 20 games (or more) on steam alone, this year. About about 4-5 as downloads. Bought 1 in a store.

By: tentacleraep

tentacleraep — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:53:49 +0000

I just thought I’d say that I spent about about 2,10€ per day (768€) on digitally distributed games last year, and I’m a pirate.
I bought 4 boxed games including WotLK and AoC.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:54:53 +0000

Shnyker: That’s incorrect since the pound plummeted in value. The internets put it at about 1.5 dollars now.

By: Shnyker

Shnyker — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:51:06 +0000

You crazy British types and your lb.s (yes pounds) if anyone there doesn”t know the conversion rate, its about one pound to two dollars. So double all of those prices, and put a dollar sign in front of it. Thats why we think everything there is so expensive. Of course as I learned, you pay 70 lb.s for a pair of good jeans, we pay twenty bucks. so we pay twenty and you pay, 140, yeah I don’t think sales in other areas of the world can represent others, the difference is too big.