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The world will now be able to sleep at night due to all this useful information that we have learned and have shared with our fellow mmorpgbbq people.
Silly people are just silly.
Oh, may be you're right ) I'm not sure, but ... What about time cards ? I dk but some American sites sales it for 25dollars, and the game was launched 4 months ago. Just I can't understand - is accounts free or isn't, couse sites sales it too (about 20 dollars). May be you're right, we'll see )
So, I tryed to listen you ))
You know that game companies only get about 10 to 20 Dollars from those 60 your were mentioning. So if we would say that NC soft gets about 15 Dollars per sold box that means they probably sold around 3 million units so far.
We dont know for sure if this graph also includes ingame store revenue so if we also take this in account i would give it a wild guess and say that they sold around 2.5 million copies of the game and the rest is digital sales.
2.5 to 3 million seems also much more realistic since Anet allready announced over a month ago that they have reached the milestone of 2 million copies.
Of cours my numbers are at the end only speculations (as all of our guesses are) but if u take Anets official statement plus these recent sales figures in account 2 to 3 million seem much more legit than 700 000 or 5 millon.
Yes MMO information on an MMO related website. How silly can poeple be
You download client for free. So there is no buying game like it is in GW2 or WoW. But you need to pay subscription to play. So that's why there are time cards. They are sold for 25$ in western shops because in order to play Korean Blade & Soul and buy suscription 'officially' you need to live in Korea and have Korean Cell Phone number to validiate.
So those shops sell Blade & Soul accounts for westerners for 10-20$ because westerners cannot make them by themself. So people in Korea made free account and validiate them with their Korean Cell Phones and resell to those westerners who want to play korean B&S. If you have friend, family or someone in Korea that will make account for you then you can get it for free.
Also korean time cards are sold by those 3rd party sites for ~25$ when official Korean price is more close to 20$ because westerners cannot buy it themself in Korea and those 3rd party sites are not charities. They have to earn money somehow right? They cannot buy for 20$ and sell for 20$
/facepalm
People say things like this purely to start fights, right?
Oh look, we're off and running on a brand new "my game sold more neener" "did not" "did so" "did not"
Must be Saturday.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
How did they manage to make so little money from Blade & Soul?
As I understand it (correct me if I'm wrong), it has no upfront fee but a 23,000 KRW monthly sub.
32,662m KRW = approx. 1.4 million player/months at 23,000 KRW per month.
Except it didn't drop below D3, a game that sold over 10 million copies.
XFire numbers again need to be read carefully and not only in number of hours played.
And of course WoW numbers, a game that boasts 9 million subscribers, after 1 month of MoP is around the same number of hours and players GW2 was after 1 month.
So if WoW boasts 3 million players in the west and GW2 has 70% of its numbers in XFire does that mean GW2 has around 2.1 million players?
Currently playing: GW2
Going cardboard starter kit: Ticket to ride, Pandemic, Carcassonne, Dominion, 7 Wonders
/headdesk
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
All you have to do is show me a link from ArenaNet or NCSoft that says GW2 has sold 5 million copies, it should not be to hard if what you say is true.
Over 1 million subs / month is small? Remember Korea has "only" 50 million people.
Mmorpg's released in USA which is 314 millions + Canada which is 34 million + EU which countries do have total of over 450 million + WITHOUT needing to verify you're from those countries (in Korean games you need KSSN or Korean Cell Phone Number) so if you're non from those counties you can play too, like from Australia, New Zelland, Russia, South America.
Still no mmoprg except WoW in west was able to hold more than 0,5 million subs for more than few months after release and no western mmorpg except WoW & Swtor had more than 1 million subs ever being released in counties with total of 700-800 millions of people, sometimes even more.
So little money? What are you even talking about?
Got that right. xFire numbers means nothing except for those that actually use it. It aint the end all be all that some like to make it out to be.
Your remark is as absolutely ridiculous as someone who says xFire is the end all be all.
If you don't believe me (I know you don't) look here :
http://bns.gameguyz.com/news/news/ncsoft-works-with-amd-to-develop-new-graphics-card-for-blade-and-soul.html
Can anyone see the error in the maths here?
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Hey no need to headdesk.
It is just a pitty people don't understand that XFire is not a valid sample of the Gaming population which allow for every type of claims, like the ones I posted, which would be accurate if XFire was a valid sample.
Currently playing: GW2
Going cardboard starter kit: Ticket to ride, Pandemic, Carcassonne, Dominion, 7 Wonders
Well to nip a little at Blade and Soul, it did sell to both Korea AND China so it had 2 markets, though at the same time we can also point out Gw2 also had a far larger potential customer base as it is sold to a larger amount of countries then Blade and Soul currently has.
The question is what is the difference in market between the 2 areas. You can have more potential customers yet still have a smaller market.
@Calerxes ;
Sadly a lot of people dont know how much revenue a company makes per box sale!
If they only made 45 million dollars on 5 million sales, they have the worst deal with the wholesalers/retailers in the history of worst deals.