Prey (2017) Sales

[BlackRayPlayer]

Lots of complaints about poor sales. Well, I may have to agree in a way.

There are an estimated 12,700 owners within Steam, but it might be that the game sold less than $500,000 amongst those owners. Don't know how many bought it at full $59.99, along those who got it free or less than the original price.

to sell $1,000,000 worth, you need at least 17,000 users, and to be profitable, I would say about 20,000 ~ 25,000+. Sales after that ad to that.

Am I wrong?

[Zekiran]

Steam doesn't list its sales numbers. The only ones that are available officially are from retail sources, so I'm not sure where you're getting the numbers from?

[Cyanity]

Steamspy has this game's sales estimates hovering around 500-600k owners. That's far higher than the numbers you seem to have pulled out of thin air.

[Zekiran]

lol my post was removed even though it was literally and directly on topic.

I'll reiterate: this set of numbers has no basis in reality. If you've got some kind of link or proof of this 12000 number I'd love to see it.

[BlackRayPlayer]

The end of the post should read 'I Am Wrong.' because I made a mistake with the information. I tried to think of a way to find the amount of owners of this game to assess the success of the game. I got the number based on reviews, but I didn't think that through, there are many people that probably didn't bother reviewing the game.

I made a mistake and learned something from it.

Originally posted by Cyanity:

Steamspy has this game's sales estimates hovering around 500-600k owners. That's far higher than the numbers you seem to have pulled out of thin air.

Now if there are 500~600k owners, they seem to have been a little more successful than I thought they were so the question would be, that I would like answered. What would keep them from continueing from the franchise? Support and DLC.

[Zekiran]

Nothing - those things are both still available at least the potential of DLC as the ending of this game is certainly open. They've patched recently and there is another in the works so I've heard right here on the forum.

A lot of people seem to be saying "oh noes there's no dlc already therefore it must be dead in the water" when what they ought to be saying is "wow a full game that needed only minor patching that's been put in already? terrific!"

This game is a niche market though - either way you slice it. It's not as "Active shooter" as, say, Aliens Isolation is, and it's apparently too pretty and bright to be a "real horror" game, and crucially, it makes the player THINK. And sadly that's been a problem lately... Dont' get me wrong, I love shooting things. A lot. But I much more deeply appreciate the effort that's gone into this game, because I can look below the surface and shiny, and see the plot and all the messy human story under it. Folks just... want shooters for the most part. So it's not getting the massive word of mouth push that some other games get. It's certainly under-represented in my opinion. But it - like Dishonored 2 and Death of the Outsider - is an extremely good game that lots of people seem to think hasn't sold well. They have, and I'm honestly baffled at why people keep saying it even though it's patently untrue.

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And the reason I wanted to reply again and forgot with that wall of text:

Yeah if you're going only by the quantity of reviews here on steam? Multiply that by AT LEAST a margin of 10x to 20x because literally 9 out of 10 people dont even realize there ARE reviews or a forum. We squeaky folks do a lot of talking, but most people just say nothing, play the game, and move on.