Sales Numbers?

[Label07]

Steamspy will probably be a good place to roughly identify how many sales were made on Steam.
Is there any way to find the rough numbers for sales on EGS?

I'm truly curious to see the ratio of purchases when the time comes.

[Corrupt Outcast]

Borderlands 3 was estimated to have sold roughly 2 million on EGS

[Dax_B]

Originally posted by Corrupt Outcast:

Borderlands 3 was estimated to have sold roughly 2 million on EGS

It turned out to be very debatable and massaged stats.

https://www.thegamer.com/borderlands-3-sales-not-what-2k-said/

[Corrupt Outcast]

Originally posted by Dax_B:

Originally posted by Corrupt Outcast:

Borderlands 3 was estimated to have sold roughly 2 million on EGS

It turned out to be very debatable and massaged stats.

https://www.thegamer.com/borderlands-3-sales-not-what-2k-said/

Not shocked. Anything to try and justify the Epic deal in the public eye I guess

[Label07]

Originally posted by Dax_B:

Originally posted by Corrupt Outcast:

Borderlands 3 was estimated to have sold roughly 2 million on EGS

It turned out to be very debatable and massaged stats.

https://www.thegamer.com/borderlands-3-sales-not-what-2k-said/

Interesting read. I thought at the time something might be up with their bragging. Fluffing sales numbers to try to show stock holders/etc. that the exclusive deal worked. We'll see for sure in a few years once numbers "settle" to a degree. Even at Steam launch will make for an interesting comparison.

[TheRandomGuy]

Epic Store Sales Data can be roughly estimated from sources like Superdata, or the Windows 10 XBOX API.

For BL3, it's estimated it sold about 1.2M copies on EGS as of January 2020 or so, according to the XBOX API for Windows 10. So it's most likely around that point, definitely not 2M though.

WWZ sold right underneath BL3's numbers at around 800K or so.

Metro was 700K. (Steam sold 200M in the 2 days post-release in February, for comparison) EDIT : 200K, not 200M, my bad.

Most everything else was below 500K, even RDR2 for the one month it was up on EGS had lower than 500K according to Superdata (while Steam has between 1-2M sales of it).

I'd imagine BL3 would probably break 800K - 900K here on Steam after a week or two, if Metro was any indication, and assuming the game is actually good of course (I've heard mixed things).

Considering past Epic Exclusives that were high profile like Hades and Metro did very well on Steam, I'd imagine BL3 will do no different, especially if they do a discount on it's return. Hades did a discount + a free game for every Steam purchase, while Metro had a very good deal at about 23.99 for the base game and 40.00 for base game + Season pass, which certainly helped propel it's sales on Steam. The only high profile game that didn't have a release sale was RDR2, although it did get one about 1 week or so after it's release, and still sold incredibly well due to it's popularity.

The way I think these returning games are going to happen, is if they're major games like RDR2 or BL3, there may, or may not be a discount, as they probably expect it to sell well without a discount pushing people to buy, but for smaller, lesser known games like Hades and Metro, there will most likely be release sales to help propel Steam sales, which in turn gets them visibility, netting more sales.

In any case, I think BL3 will probably make 1M on Steam no problem, despite the Epic Exclusivity. That didn't stop Metro, RDR2, or Hades from doing well on Steam, and I doubt it'd stop BL3.

[Master Blaster]

Fake news

[Nakos]

PlayTracker estimates Sweeney sold about 2 million copies:

https://gameworldobserver.com/2020/01/15/epic-games-store-exclusives/

Note also, that's an estimate from January of 2020.

[Wiawyr]

Something to keep in mind that in addition to all the previous statistic-massaging action, they were also counting copies shipped to stores as "sales", even when a customer hadn't bought it. They are indeed putting out a lot of fake news.

[Master Blaster]

6+Mil

[l-xXx-l]

about 2 million on egs.

[☠Grimm1981|Twitch☠™]

Originally posted by Dax_B:

Originally posted by Corrupt Outcast:

Borderlands 3 was estimated to have sold roughly 2 million on EGS

It turned out to be very debatable and massaged stats.

https://www.thegamer.com/borderlands-3-sales-not-what-2k-said/

note that link was pest on SEP 30, 2019 I am very sure there was a lot more since then. and I don't regret buying it on Epic it is a very fun and good game. Also I did not miss out the Bloody Harvest event or the Valentines witch every one here will. but it the end I will buy it on steam as well so I can compete the collection on steam

[Dragon]

BL3 sold about 2 - 3 million on EGS.

[Wiawyr]

Originally posted by Dragon:

BL3 sold about 2 - 3 million on EGS.

And is there a source with hard numbers for that? 'Cause so far there hasn't been; you're just repeating a marketing lie that's been spread around.

[KyrenCross]

They also had multiple sales on Epic and went as low as 50% off. So impatient people just went ahead and bought in and would probably buy it again on Steam.

Steam will definitely wipe the sales of Epic, but thats not the real point. The end goal is double dipping on PC. Sell the game twice, once for the impatient people that buys on EPic and people will definitely rebuy again on the best and preferred platform on PC. Thats the sad sad truth.

[Label07]

Originally posted by KyrenCross:

They also had multiple sales on Epic and went as low as 50% off. So impatient people just went ahead and bought in and would probably buy it again on Steam.

Steam will definitely wipe the sales of Epic, but thats not the real point. The end goal is double dipping on PC. Sell the game twice, once for the impatient people that buys on EPic and people will definitely rebuy again on the best and preferred platform on PC. Thats the sad sad truth.

I have a feeling you're right, sadly ;(
I'm expecting the game to be full priced when it hits Steam too.
Hopefully people will realize when they let their impatience get the best of them and purchase a game that's 3rd party made exclusive to a platform for a limited time it hurts everyone in the long run.