Free weekend promos never attract me, simply because I don’t want to bother with a huge download and install… plus there’s my backlog of growing unease.
I am the opposite, i trid several, and I always thought they would raise sales significantly. I suppose that’s why publishers barely makes demos anymore: people buy games by hype or by previous games, you can offer the full game to try and not even that makes people buy your game.
Though i think the CoD is a special case, and all the potential market interested in it is already buying the CoD games since at least three or four years. It’s not exactly an unknown IP.
Here’s Valve’s self-reporting of the 10 bestselling titles on Steam for the week:
1 RAGE
2 Portal 2
3 Fable III
4 Dead Island
5 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
6 Crysis Maximum Edition
7 Portal/Portal 2 Bundle
8 The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
9 Orcs Must Die!
10 Payday: The Heist
Top games by current number of players (Sunday @ 20.00 GMT)
67,354 68,176 Counter-Strike
61,393 62,364 Counter-Strike: Source
59,580 62,958 Team Fortress 2
31,511 32,947 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer
27,139 27,619 Sid Meier’s Civilization V
20,396 21,241 Call of Duty Black Ops - Multiplayer
19,205 19,205 Football Manager 2011
17,390 18,152 RAGE
17,196 17,196 Football Manager 2012 Demo
11,724 11,854 Left 4 Dead 2
10,200 11,923 Portal 2
9,184 9,184 Fallout New Vegas
8,854 9,214 Total War SHOGUN 2
8,727 9,093 Empire: Total War
8,472 8,472 Garry’s Mod
7,951 8,272 Dead Island
7,455 7,800 Deus Ex - Human Revolution
7,345 7,380 Terraria
6,852 6,852 Fable 3
5,452 6,117 Call of Duty Black Ops
The higher positions are more or less like always except CS and CS:S that have today 6000 more players. Rage appears for the first time with 18000 players, Portal 2 appears in the top20 thanks to the new offer and DLC, BC2 drops from the list, Fable 3 is in the last spot thanks also to the weekend offer and the rest (New Vegas, Shogun 2, Empire, Garrys Mod, Terraria, Dead Island, Deus ex, etc) stays more or less the same.
Looks like Orcs Must Die is going to be a pretty good hit on Steam, especially since that’s only counting pre-orders at this point in time.
Yeah, word of mouth on what is doubtless going to be a good release is going to propel that.
I feel bad for all those Fable 3 buyers. :(
Civ V continues to have ton of active players for a game that was so derided at launch. I count myself among its many fans, even moreso that IV.
Even more ins the case of Empire TW, much criticized at first by the public (big gap between metacritic review score and user score, for example), even more in this forum, and in the end it’s one of the most played games in Steam, even if it was released at the beginning of 2009.
The New Vegas rankings continue to be crazy. Just at half the players of Rage, a new game with multiplayer modes?
Huh? What’s this about? I have Fable III. Something I should know?
Not just Steam, but lots of PC sales figures compiled here:
Civ V is more casual, and simply easier, than Civ IV. But, honestly, with the (mostly) pleasing asthetics (though i think the music kinda goes off the downtempo end in the middle ages in a way that i don’t particularly think appropriate) it’s more fun to play. I even like the scenarios, mostly because they’re (again) pretty straightforward, yet each does try something a little different from the standard game. None of them match the great achievement of the Civ III Conquests expansion which were fantastic (in fact some of the music made for those expansions lived on in Civ IV), but they’re still fun enough.
Have you played it and Fable 2? Fable 3 is considered to be the inferior game by most players of both.
I’m one of them.
- Rage doesn’t work at all on my rig, so there’s that.
- I’m only about half done with the main New Vegas quest story and I’m still playing through DLC at 70-something hours in! This is why Bethesda gamebryo RPG games will get bought by me on day one every time, despite all the launch warts.
No. There is no Fable 2 on PC and never will be.
That comment I quoted made it sound like there was some issue or drama.
Ah, gotcha. If you haven’t played the second one then the issues in Fable 3 will probably be less annoying. I think you’re going to find some of the gameplay mechanics will be questionable anyway, but without the second game as reference, it won’t be as disappointing.
Well, it’s not like the first Fable (which is on PC) is a good precedent to have. :P
1 RAGE
2 THQ Hit Collection
3 Might & Magic Heroes VI
4 Metro 2033
5 Dungeon Defenders
6 Red Faction: Armageddon
7 Fable III
8 Duke Nukem Forever
9 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
10 Orcs Must Die!
Second week for Rage in number 1.
Dead Island and Portal 2 (past no. 2 and 4) disappear.
Fable 3 holds up, incredibly.
A very decent position for Heroes 6. If the reviews are positive, it may have legs.
Strangely, MW3 goes down, instead of up as the release date closes in.
And second week with Orcs must die! in the top 10.
66,483 67,712 Counter-Strike
65,987 70,023 Team Fortress 2
57,249 57,773 Counter-Strike: Source
32,354 33,454 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer
26,071 26,071 Sid Meier’s Civilization V
20,682 21,135 Call of Duty Black Ops - Multiplayer
17,189 17,189 Football Manager 2011
12,404 12,404 Football Manager 2012 Demo
11,723 12,037 Left 4 Dead 2
10,113 10,754 RAGE
9,159 9,307 Dawn of War II - Retribution
8,989 9,047 Might and Magic Heroes VI
8,581 8,739 Empire: Total War
8,515 8,515 Garry’s Mod
8,413 8,413 Fallout New Vegas
8,008 8,008 Terraria
7,985 8,186 Total War SHOGUN 2
6,240 6,309 Deus Ex - Human Revolution
6,143 6,328 Dead Island
5,962 6,020 Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Without changes in the first seven positions.
Dead Island goes below Deus Ex, even if DX was released before.
Portal 2 fall off the top 20.
1 Football Manager 2012
2 Dungeon Defenders
3 Batman: Arkham City
4 Payday: The Heist
5 Might & Magic Heroes VI
6 Deus Ex: Human Revolution
7 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
8 Deus Ex: Human Revolution - The Missing Link
9 Call of Duty: modern Warfare 3
10 Alice: madness Returns
This is the first time since i started the thread that most of the games on the top 10 are new releases
65,454 71,912 Counter-Strike
63,469 68,762 Team Fortress 2
57,129 57,129 Football Manager 2012
56,847 60,234 Counter-Strike: Source
30,874 34,517 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer
25,532 25,551 Sid Meier’s Civilization V
21,477 21,602 Dungeon Defenders
20,550 21,982 Call of Duty Black Ops - Multiplayer
12,904 12,904 Football Manager 2011
12,011 12,011 Left 4 Dead 2
8,876 8,951 Garry’s Mod
8,387 8,768 Empire: Total War
8,005 8,008 Fallout New Vegas
7,469 7,794 Total War SHOGUN 2
7,103 7,221 Terraria
6,963 6,963 Battlefield: Bad Company 2
6,605 6,718 Might and Magic Heroes VI
6,514 6,584 Deus Ex - Human Revolution
6,473 6,522 Dawn of War II - Retribution
6,103 7,019 RAGE
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