NS2 sales plummet during Autumn sale
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<div class="IPBDescription">No discount seems to equal no sales</div>Steam is having their Autumn sale, where most games are on sale... and NS2 isn't. NS2 was the 10th best selling game on Steam this morning, and it's currently #46...
Seriously guys, should have at least knocked five or ten bucks off during the sale to avoid getting lost behind all the stuff that is on sale.
Seriously guys, should have at least knocked five or ten bucks off during the sale to avoid getting lost behind all the stuff that is on sale.
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I'm sure there's a point of diminishing returns if you start getting silly-low (a $50 game at $5 might produce more revenue, but it probably wouldn't at $0.05), but the point is that they've got mountains of empirical evidence showing sales don't devalue games.
Lots of other games that have been out for similar periods of time as NS2 are on sale. Torchlight 2 and Borderlands 2 came out two months ago and are both on modest discount.
This.
Lots of people wait till the Steam sales season before they purchase their games. That doesn't mean NS2 sales are dropping.
Except those 2 games did amazingly. Torchlight 2 having well over 50-70k+ concurrent players and Borderlands 2 being in the six digits.
OH NO PLUMMETING SALES
Torchlight2 is on sale, and honestly, there were a couple complaints on release about NS2 being priced too high for the class it was in. I think it was the right move at the time to price it what it was, there was a lot of hype for the game at the time as well, so the price figure met demand... However, I think in general the consensus is "I'm not sure this game was worth the money I paid for it, it was good, but it didn't live up to the hype". Personally I don't regret my purchase at all, but I was also in the minority as a GIANT fan of NS1 for YEARS before NS2 came out.
Without being able to see current sales statistics, and not looking at the potential battering the game servers may take, I would have advised UWE to put the price of the game at $15.00 for the duration of the autumn sale. It's not too soon to trial a modest price drop during a major sale.
What is that even supposed to mean
I think they're still hope for a flash deal/daily deal of NS2, I hope it doesn't kill too much the community to not have a sales.
Exactly.
An "indie" developer is simply a development house that has no external publishers, and a limited number of shareholders. However this can lead to certain (rather large) development studios being classified as indie. Out of respect, Valve doesn't play that card. Considering the money that torchlight 2 was backed by, and the amount of marketing they had, they really had no right to be called indie.
most of those steam top sellers list are singleplayer or not competitive and therefore boring to watch... if they don't go on sale then they get ignored.