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Steam Top 10

[Sep 17, 2012, 10:09 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Here's Valve's list of the 10 bestselling games on Steam for the week:

Borderlands 2
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Arma 2: Combined Operations
FTL: Faster Than Light
Torchlight II
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dawnguard
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Collection 3 Chaos Pack
Borderlands 2 Season Pass

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Re: Steam Top 10

Sep 17, 2012, 16:06

Matshock

Prez wrote on Sep 17, 2012, 15:41: Verno wrote on Sep 17, 2012, 11:45: Valve has usually said that the Steam list is ordered by raw revenue, I assume its just whatever is passing through the payment processor. That's interesting if true, because it means a game like FTL would have to sell 5 times as many units to beat a $50 game like XCOM. That's been Gabe's contention all along- good, relatively inexpensive games outsell good expensive ones. That's in-line with microeconomics . I think he's partially right- on the other hand the "shelf life" of an expensive AAA title may be a bit longer- i.e. when everyone has moved on from FTL people will still be buying XCOM at progressively lower price points. PS micro was the only economics course I took that didn't turn out to be horseshit- almost everything I was taught in macro and banking has been thrown on its ear over the last several years. Good old price-demand curves still seem to work though.

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Comment [quote="Matshock"Sep 17, 2012, 16:06][quote="Prez"Sep 17, 2012, 15:41][quote="Verno"Sep 17, 2012, 11:45]Valve has usually said that the Steam list is ordered by raw revenue, I assume its just whatever is passing through the payment processor. [/quote] That's interesting if true, because it means a game like FTL would have to sell 5 times as many units to beat a $50 game like XCOM. [/quote] That's been Gabe's contention all along- good, relatively inexpensive games outsell good expensive ones. That's in-line with microeconomics . I think he's partially right- on the other hand the "shelf life" of an expensive AAA title may be a bit longer- i.e. when everyone has moved on from FTL people will still be buying XCOM at progressively lower price points. PS micro was the only economics course I took that didn't turn out to be horseshit- almost everything I was taught in macro and banking has been thrown on its ear over the last several years. Good old price-demand curves still seem to work though. [/quote]

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