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SteamSpy - Approximate LTD sales for every game on Steam (Updated Daily)
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So my game went on sale for 24 hours two days ago as part of the Monster Sale unlocks (from 75% to 90%), and the stats on the SteamSpy Sale Page site are about ~15,000 lower than what it actually sold, which is within the ~24,000 margin of error. Anyways thought that was interesting. I love Steam. 
alexandros
Banned
So my game went on sale for 24 hours two days ago as part of the Monster Sale unlocks (from 75% to 90%), and the stats on the SteamSpy Sale Page site are about ~15,000 lower than what it actually sold, which is within the ~24,000 margin of error. Anyways thought that was interesting. I love Steam.
Ì assume you are happy with the sales then?
Congratulations man, it's great when developers of good games achieve success.Ì assume you are happy with the sales then?
Really happy! Went way beyond expectations.
Me too! We need more C&C like RTS'es. Hell, more RTS games in general
Fantastic job Sergey, I hope this sales data can help devs in the future.
thesaucetastic
Unconfirmed Member
You could always try that Wilson score algorithm that steamDB uses. It's essentially a confidence interval for the "true" percent of favorable reviews on a binomial distribution (there are only two options, recommended or not recommended).
Teletraan1
Banned
neat
The sales for XIII -> XIII-2 are half. If they would fix the frame pacing on both I wouldn't have felt burned by XIII and picked up XIII-2.
Yeah, I thought about that. But my sorting now relies on DataTables.js and a lot of stuff there is hardcoded. I can't change sorting algorithm without changing the source
It's all there
http://steamspy.com/app/221560When Steam removes a game I remove it from the search, but all collected stats are still there.
PoweredByHentai
Member
So my game went on sale for 24 hours two days ago as part of the Monster Sale unlocks (from 75% to 90%), and the stats on the SteamSpy Sale Page site are about ~15,000 lower than what it actually sold, which is within the ~24,000 margin of error. Anyways thought that was interesting. I love Steam.
Dood, you made "Cook, Serve, Delicious!"? Awesome!
CecilRousso
Member
Interesting to see that the owners of Massive Chalice have jumped with almost 50%, despite the game not being a daily or flash sale yet.
So my game went on sale for 24 hours two days ago as part of the Monster Sale unlocks (from 75% to 90%), and the stats on the SteamSpy Sale Page site are about ~15,000 lower than what it actually sold, which is within the ~24,000 margin of error. Anyways thought that was interesting. I love Steam.
Congrats on the sales, I was one of the people who bought the game but I haven't gotten a chance to try it yet.
There seems to be a trend of more ambitious sequels to popular indie games releasing to an increased price point and seeing poor sales as a result. Look at the drop for Defense Grid 2, Audiosurf 2, Legend of Grimlock, etc. Even if you discount bundling the drops are large.
Indie devs are counting on a brand loyalty that doesn't seem to exist.
I bought Cook, Serve, Delicious to support you, even though my backlog is immense.
Indie devs are counting on a brand loyalty that doesn't seem to exist.
So my game went on sale for 24 hours two days ago as part of the Monster Sale unlocks (from 75% to 90%), and the stats on the SteamSpy Sale Page site are about ~15,000 lower than what it actually sold, which is within the ~24,000 margin of error. Anyways thought that was interesting. I love Steam.
I bought Cook, Serve, Delicious to support you, even though my backlog is immense.
Prototype Viktor
Member
now where is my PS4 version!?! hehe
alexandros
Banned
More than 30 million copies of games sold so far. Jesus Christ.
Interfectum
Member
Total copies sold: 30,414,692
Total revenue: $222,101,564
Total revenue: $222,101,564
OnionPowder
Member
I'm glad. I'm one of the people who bought it.
That's a cool ~66 million USD for Valve just on game sales, never mind cards and all the other market crap.Total copies sold: 30,414,692
Total revenue: $222,101,564
Maybe it's just me, but I feel like the summer sale is only a fraction of the size of the Winter sale as well.
Hellsing321
Member
Absolutely insane how much Steam sales take in. If NPD tracked digital quite a few of the sales biggest sellers would crack the top 10 quite regularly.
So my game went on sale for 24 hours two days ago as part of the Monster Sale unlocks (from 75% to 90%), and the stats on the SteamSpy Sale Page site are about ~15,000 lower than what it actually sold, which is within the ~24,000 margin of error. Anyways thought that was interesting. I love Steam.
I always wonder how they determine the games that are featured in the monstergame.
Was that an opt-in thing? is it random where and how you are placed? There was allready 2 o3 games we didnt unlock, the dev of those games must be pissed.
(If you can talk about that)
Turin Turambar
Member
Yep, I think the winter sale is the "big one".
But what would be really interesting is to know what % of sales are done in these special days vs the rest of the year. Are Steam sales too concentrated in the special sales? The impression is that a fair number of people wait until the sales to buy lots of games.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
True, but the tail coming off sales I would guess makes up for that.
alexandros
Banned
The great thing is that those sales are spread out over a huge variety of games. Steam Spy shows more than 700 games that achieved 10,000 sales or more.
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The Everyman
I finally bought it. The price was too good man.So my game went on sale for 24 hours two days ago as part of the Monster Sale unlocks (from 75% to 90%), and the stats on the SteamSpy Sale Page site are about ~15,000 lower than what it actually sold, which is within the ~24,000 margin of error. Anyways thought that was interesting. I love Steam.
Obliterator
Member
Total copies sold: 30,414,692
Total revenue: $222,101,564
Holy damn. Steam is a MONSTER
It would be cool if there was an info about every game if it steamworks enabled or if other versions exist, that are sold in retail or in other stores whithout mandatory steam registration.
And a minor thing: Textboxes should have a small border, it's really hard to find the search for example.
And a minor thing: Textboxes should have a small border, it's really hard to find the search for example.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I'd be interesting to know if coming out of Early Access does anything for the sales of a game. I feel like a lot of EA games botch their actual launch.
For example I bought Vertiginous Golf a couple of months ago and thought it was pretty sweet, heard a couple of people talking about it etc. Fast forward to today, I completely forgot about the game until today, learned it came out of early access over a month ago and haven't heard anybody talking about it.
Might be cause it's probably a fairly unknown game though.
For example I bought Vertiginous Golf a couple of months ago and thought it was pretty sweet, heard a couple of people talking about it etc. Fast forward to today, I completely forgot about the game until today, learned it came out of early access over a month ago and haven't heard anybody talking about it.
Might be cause it's probably a fairly unknown game though.
So my game went on sale for 24 hours two days ago as part of the Monster Sale unlocks (from 75% to 90%), and the stats on the SteamSpy Sale Page site are about ~15,000 lower than what it actually sold, which is within the ~24,000 margin of error. Anyways thought that was interesting. I love Steam.
I bought it!
Will be playing this week
PandaPedinte
Member
Galyonkin wrote an article that touches a bit of it. Seems like the games sells more during the first period of EA than when they release the complete version. https://medium.com/@galyonkin/some-things-you-should-know-about-steam-5eaffcf33218
That first request doesn't sound like it can be automated so I really doubt it'll happen.
And search does have a small border.
Thanks everyone!
It was an opt-in thing, in that I opted into the 90% discount. However I didn't know if I was selected ahead of time, nor did I know which category I'd be in if I did. So it's always a fun/stressful time for me during the sales, hah.
It was an opt-in thing, in that I opted into the 90% discount. However I didn't know if I was selected ahead of time, nor did I know which category I'd be in if I did. So it's always a fun/stressful time for me during the sales, hah.
Speaking of the article and the somewhat low number of average total sales per game...
How does the situation change if you disregard the 2015 (and last few months of 2014) games? It's not like some of them had a lot of time to catch up to Half-Life 2/etc sales...
Galyonkin, any idea why some games have had reasonably drastic drop in sales/owners on the Summer Sale page? For example, Project CARS used to show a bit over 191K yesterday and is now showing 175K, cutting the sales amount in over half. It's also still showing 185K on the normal steamspy page with the multiple day sample. I don't have the numbers anymore, but I noticed the same thing on some games by my friends.
The sales page uses 1 day samples, so a higher degree of variance day-to-day should be expected.
The sales amount is a first order differentiation of a value with higher variance, so it's even less reliable
Yeah naturally, though it still seemed unusually large of a deviation to me. I should probably ask around to see how accurate the data might've been and just generally see how well people have done this Summer Sale.The sales page uses 1 day samples, so a higher degree of variance day-to-day should be expected.
The sales amount is a first order differentiation of a value with higher variance, so it's even less reliable
ashecitism
Member
That's median btw, the mean excluding f2p is 210k
PsychoSoldier
Banned
Now that the sale has ended, it'll be interesting to see how the numbers shake out.
https://twitter.com/Steam_Spy/status/613041142591025156
Should have some numbers in a few days, though what's there now is already interesting.
https://twitter.com/Steam_Spy/status/613041142591025156
Should have some numbers in a few days, though what's there now is already interesting.
I'm afraid, not - I've only started to gather information in the late March this year;
So we have a quarter to pull data from :>
Another note on that, since it's the first day of data, you will only see starting ownership; the result of which refunds have already begun. It'll be tough to extrapolate unless there is a delay in the refunds processing.