Eternity PoE II: Deadfire Sales Analysis Thread

[ArchAngel]

Players (experimental) is now showing over 200k players.

Still terrible. Anything below 500k is bad.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I'm not saying if it's good or bad. I'm pretty sure it will reach and pass 500k just no explosion in sales.

 

[aweigh]

PoE2 is officially included in 2018's "top sellers".

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/2018_so_far_top_sellers/

 

[DalekFlay]

"I want this to fail so badly I will ignore all evidence to the contrary!"

 

[ArchAngel]

PoE2 is officially included in 2018's "top sellers".

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/2018_so_far_top_sellers/

It is in the bottom of the list, in same group as Xcom 2 and that game is not even from 2018 lol.

 

[Mexi]

Sold well, it's over edgy phaggots. Stop speculating.

 

[frajaq]

Oh my god both Skyrim and Skyrim VR are still selling well

 

[Fairfax]

Numbers from the Steam API achievement stats:

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire 203,867

 

[fantadomat]

PoE2 is officially included in 2018's "top sellers".

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/2018_so_far_top_sellers/

It got outsold by two different iteration of skyrim, and one of them is VR......Also got outsold by niche old games like rimworld and stardew valle. Oh well at least outsold the nu vampire,nu total war game and Battletech.


EDIT: I am amazed that witcher 3 still push such number of copies to be in lead gold.

 

[imweasel]

Most of the games in the bronze category aren't new releases. Nothing to call home about for a game that was released two months ago IMO.

BTW, PoE 2 is already #98 on Steam.

 

[fantadomat]

Numbers from the Steam API achievement stats:

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire 203,867

There is a lot of good info on that site....if true that is. Still thanks mate . It is interesting to see that Wolfy sjw edition sold a third of the prequel,or how asscreed sold only a million on pc,less than the crypt of the necrodancer(great game ).

 

[The Avatar]

200k is decent enough, and that number will only grow. I don't know why people are expecting Obsidian to compete with AAA games. You can tell that the production values are not comparable to Bethsoft or CD Projekt Red.

 

[Nuclear Explosion]

200k is decent enough, and that number will only grow. I don't know why people are expecting Obsidian to compete with AAA games. You can tell that the production values are not comparable to Bethsoft or CD Projekt Red.

The point is that it is not selling as well as the first game did despite its budget being larger. Obsidian were probably hoping that POE 2 would be as successful as DOS 2 has proven to be.

 

[LizardWizard]

Obsidian were probably hoping that POE 2 would be as successful as DOS 2 has proven to be.

Doubtful they would think that without adding multiplayer and degenerative Diabloesque loot

 

[LESS T_T]

PoE 1 sales two months after the release, estimated by Steamspy: 437k

I don't think they were that naive to expect D:OS 1/2 sales for PoE 2, but 200k sales is very underwhelming to say the least.

 

[Nuclear Explosion]

Obsidian were probably hoping that POE 2 would be as successful as DOS 2 has proven to be.

Doubtful they would think that without adding multiplayer and degenerative Diabloesque loot

Well, they did add full voice acting.

 

[Lacrymas]

Full VA did more financial damage than anything else. That's what you get for not knowing your audience and thrash about in a futile attempt to get a bigger piece of the pie.

 

[J_C]

Full VA did more financial damage than anything else. That's what you get for not knowing your audience and thrash about in a futile attempt to get a bigger piece of the pie.

This. Full VO didn't improve the game's quality by 0.0001%, but it took away precious time and money from other areas. It baffles me how clueless Feargus is about their market. He is just chasing the trends again which Larian set up for indie games, not realizing that it is not applicable for every game.

 

[Bester]

Came here to gloat about the pathetic 203,867 sales.

 

[Lacrymas]

At least this debacle will drive the point home for devs that full VA is not the answer and is a waste of money.

 

[LESS T_T]

Even Tyranny sold better.

Nah, Tyranny sales two months after the release (also Steamspy): 124k.

Also PoE 2 is a bit more expensive. (Though if you count Fig backer copies [for Steam] the difference is not THAT big. Something to think about.)

(Speaking of Fig, it's funny that the sales numbers and the numbers of backers of two games are almost proportional!

Backers (initial campaigns): 73,986 / 33,614 = 2.20
Sales: 437k / 203k = 2.15

I wonder being on Fig gave them delusion that the backers are fewer because it's on Fig, the new platform, instead of KS, not because people now have less interest in PoE-style game.)

 

[Ellef]

Good to see obshitian being obshitian

 

[The Great ThunThun*]

At least this debacle will drive the point home for devs that full VA is not the answer and is a waste of money.

I doubt this. Full VA is just an excuse for bad game world design. The real reason this game is failing because it's fracking boring.

 

[unfairlight]

ELEX 254,457
PoE2 203,867
Germany wins again, sawyerists.

 

[Lacrymas]

Deutschland über alles. I'd say ELEX is a much more popular genre and should've sold even more, but eh, I don't care. The question of why PoE2 doesn't seem to be selling great is still relevant. Is it because the nostalgia wore off in PoE1? Is it because of marketing? Is it because PoE1 was a bit garbage-y and was only tolerable in specific circumstances? The general public thinking the gameplay is antiquated? Those are interesting questions to ask, too bad we have no-one to ask.