torchlight gets my award for "most curiously overrated by professional reviewers" in 2009.
kxmode wrote on Jan 11, 2010, 04:35:The mostmiserablepassionate andunhappyuncompromised gamers on the planet are at Bluesnews
As for the percentages, there's no way to really know what the ratio is but I'm sure it fluctuates between about 5-15% maybe? Which is the ratio that COD4 got as well... about 2 million PC copies sold out of a total of 15 million. But since we're throwing out numbers based on assumptions, I'm going to say that I think their lost sales due to no dedicated servers is a small fraction of one percent of their total revenue.
theyarecomingforyou wrote on Jan 11, 2010, 01:56:
L4D2 games frequently suffer major lag because of the poor matchmaking / networking and the game is fundamentally broken on multi-GPU setups (requiring you to alt-tab at the start of each level). So while the core game might be very enjoyable when everything works right that's very different to calling them great games. Personally I think L4D2 is a shadow of the original - it lost all the atmosphere the first game had and spams more special infected at you.
Hoop wrote on Jan 11, 2010, 03:51:
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spindoctor your signature could read "Some of the most....." as it stands its an insult to those of us, and there are many, that for the most part contribute positively to this fine site.
As it stands you just come off sounding like a little pompous ar$e hole.
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The GEICO Cavemen wrote on Jan 10, 2010, 16:36:God I'm sick of this fucking myth. 3/4's of that front and single page were playing CoD4:MW2. That's far from 3/4 of the group. The front pages are players currently playing games and considering that screenshot was taken at launch it would be easy to see a large percentage playing a game that was just launched.
I know, huh? When screenshots surface with 3/4 of the Steam "Boycott Modern Warfare 2" group showing ingame in Modern Warfare 2 that doesn't exactly strengthen your cause. That level of hypocracy is legendary...almost Dagok-like.
Yup. Both MW2 and L4D2 are great games, and it's good to see them selling well, despite the whining and bitching and boycotts and petitions and what not. Both games have sold millions of copies on the PC, and it proves that the platform is still viable for AAA games despite the irrelevant minority crying like babies.Both games demonstrate a clear misstep in the future of PC gaming. L4D2 games frequently suffer major lag because of the poor matchmaking / networking and the game is fundamentally broken on multi-GPU setups (requiring you to alt-tab at the start of each level). So while the core game might be very enjoyable when everything works right that's very different to calling them great games. Personally I think L4D2 is a shadow of the original - it lost all the atmosphere the first game had and spams more special infected at you.
Unless, of course, you wish to believe that the Steam top sellers list and concurrent players list is a marketing conspiracy and that Bowling has to be lying... In which case, yea, it can't be proved.
That's probably the comparative ratio of console to PC revenues for all multiplatform releases. Having 10% of the total revenue share is why the PC gets less focus than consoles.
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Dr. D. Schreber wrote on Jan 10, 2010, 22:02:
What this game gets is the kind of negative feedback you give to bad games, followed up by "I'm still playing it."
OK, I'm going to go pretend this matters to me. Because what you do or don't do means the difference between whether or not I can sleep at night.
Congratulations, you have missed the joke.
Jerykk wrote on Jan 10, 2010, 21:34:
Has Activision released any sales figures? The last NPD figure for MW2 showed that it only sold 170k. http://kotaku.com/5426474/report-modern-warfare-2-pc-us-retail-sales-about-170000-in-november. In the UK, it only sold 53,400. http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/51467/Modern-Warfare-2-U-K-PC-Sales-Lagging-Way-Behind. On Amazon, it's only sold 8% of total sales. http://news.bigdownload.com/2009/11/01/pc-modern-warfare-2-sells-less-than-a-tenth-of-total-on-amazon-c/.
It's possible that Steam sales have fared much better but until they release actual numbers, it's hard to tell. In retail, MW2 PC looks to be a failure.