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Interview With Turbulent Reveals 500,000 Paid Backers
ZettaBytes
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in Star Citizen
Honestly surprised with these numbers as the website shows 1.4 million accounts.
Means an average of $234 per backer but perhaps more realistically, if 66% of backers bought a $45 base package it means that the remaining 33% (167,000 backers) have spent almost $112,000,000 between them, an average of $672 per person!!
Translation: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/4sifhi/interview_with_turbulent_and_some_backers_figures/
Source: http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/07/12/jeu-video-star-citizen_n_10941920.html
Means an average of $234 per backer but perhaps more realistically, if 66% of backers bought a $45 base package it means that the remaining 33% (167,000 backers) have spent almost $112,000,000 between them, an average of $672 per person!!
Translation: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/4sifhi/interview_with_turbulent_and_some_backers_figures/
Source: http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/07/12/jeu-video-star-citizen_n_10941920.html
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Example:
sakimichan on patreon gets around $27k per month for drawing a few nude pinups of overwatch and stuff.
Jim sterling on youtube gets over $10k a month from patreon ontop of his youtube ad revenue.
People just have way too much money and nothing to spend it on.
http://forums.mmorpg.com/discussion/439325/star-citizen-the-community-hub/p13
this number is approx. the same number predicted by long term SC project observers here on this subforum (including me). Half a million has often been named as a realistic "guestimate" number.
It is interesting to note that the english translation of the French turbulent article is missing the number of 500.000 people. So it is possible that the number is not an official number (hence it has been removed in the english translation) but an educated guess by Benjamin Fardel.
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There is no 5 $ pledge package in the RSI store (and never was). Lowest one these days is 54 $. Lowest one they ever offered was a 20$ X-mas Aurora special.
If you are referring to the 5$ Alpha access offer they had going for a time (before they made Alpha access free for everyone) .... you needed an existing pledge package for that (and these cost a minimum of 20/54$ as mentioned above).
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You're forgetting the whales!!
In mobile, they account for 0.15% of the population, so in the case of SC that would be 750 people. They also say Whales account for 50% of all revenue in F2P games. That would mean each whale spending $78k, but I don't think that's possible, is it?
I did find something that seems to make the number jive, actually. We see here that they break down users into minnows, dolphins, and whales at respective percentages of 50%, 40%, 10%. This If we use the previous statistic of whales accounting for 50% of game revenue, this means that the top 50k users would have spent, on average, $1170. Minnows, you already mentioned, spent the minimum of $45. That leaves the dolphins somewhere in the $235 range for average spend. What's more interesting is the stat seems to align with the later article, too, where they say they typically say dolphins will spend 5x as much as minnows and whales will spend an average of 4 times that of dolphins.
Obviously this is still speculative, but I think that your numbers are a bit inflated due to not considering the whales.
Crazkanuk
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If some are spending thousands monthly on cash shop purchases, I doubt they'd even blink at laying down $5K for a KS pledge. That's a once-off spend, it's peanuts in those budgets.
Difficult to say. I meant the first study notes that 0.15% of your user base accounts for 50% of your revenue, and that was more recent. If we were to take those numbers at face value, then we'd be saying that like 60 million revenue is distributed among 499000 people. So we're talking about $120 average over 99.85% of the user base. So there is definitely a swing in numbers, for sure. I actually do like the lowering of the bar on "whales" slightly, though, to have it account for the top 10%. I think that it leaves more room for error. Saying that 50% of revenue comes from 0.15% of users is maybe applicable some places, but in a crowdfunding project where everyone is paying, I think that the 10% is probably more realistic. Or somewhere in between. Or not, lol.
The real question is whether you believe that 1 in 3 backers spend nearly $700. I would say that's highly unlikely.
Crazkanuk
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Azarelos - 90 Hunter - Emerald
Durnzig - 90 Paladin - Emerald
Demonicron - 90 Death Knight - Emerald Dream - US
Tankinpain - 90 Monk - Azjol-Nerub - US
Brindell - 90 Warrior - Emerald Dream - US
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When it's done - THEN it becomes relevant how many copies are sold. But whether they're bought by one person or a billion - it really doesn't matter.
So long as there are enough people willing to play the game, I don't see how a million is better than half a million.