Sales numbers?

[KippenKaasBaas]

Does anyone have an idea about the current sales numbers? I can't find any info on this.
It's no longer in ea so can we see some numbers on the sales yet?

People keep referring to the positive reviews in discussions about the succes of this game. But positive reviews aside, I'm wondering how many people actually bought the game.

[Lex]

Me so at least 1

[Ballsaque]

I'm wondering as well. A lot of positive reviews come from people who followed the game from early access though, so I would take them with a grain of salt. People like that spend a lot of time with the game and feel a connection between them and the devs. They will defend even a sh-tty game (which BZ is not, it's just not that good) 'till the end so it won't feel that they wasted their lives.

In ieder geval, met wat ik nu weet koop ik voor die 30 euro liever kippen en kaas. ;-)

[KippenKaasBaas]

Originally posted by Ballsaque:

I'm wondering as well. A lot of positive reviews come from people who followed the game from early access though, so I would take them with a grain of salt. People like that spend a lot of time with the game and feel a connection between them and the devs. They will defend even a sh-tty game (which BZ is not, it's just not that good) 'till the end so it won't feel that they wasted their lives.

Exactly.
Another thing that always bothered me is that this game was the #1 selling game on Steam the minute it was dropped into early acces.
People had no Idea what to expect and they just bought this game because they loved the first one.
Now that the game is out of early acces and people know what to expect I'm wondering if it's still doing so great.
If it's as good as the original Subnautica (like so many people here claim) I'd love to see some recent sales numbers that confirm that.

Originally posted by Ballsaque:

In ieder geval, met wat ik nu weet koop ik voor die 30 euro liever kippen en kaas. ;-)

Anders ik wel ;)

[Andvari]

The fact that most people like the game doesn't mean it has good sales. After all, if 100 people buy the game and all give it a positive rating, that probably means the game is good, but 100 sales is very low.

That being said, it's high on the Steam Top Sellers page, so it appears to be selling well for the moment.

[KippenKaasBaas]

Originally posted by Andvari:

The fact that most people like the game doesn't mean it has good sales. After all, if 100 people buy the game and all give it a positive rating, that probably means the game is good, but 100 sales is very low.

That being said, it's high on the Steam Top Sellers page, so it appears to be selling well for the moment.

It's high on the Steam charts because it just left early acces and that news is spreading.

In april it had average player count of 1900.
In april the average player count of the original was 3000.

So that makes me believe the original is a WAY bigger hit.

[Ballsaque]

Originally posted by KippenKaasBaas:

Originally posted by Ballsaque:

I'm wondering as well. A lot of positive reviews come from people who followed the game from early access though, so I would take them with a grain of salt. People like that spend a lot of time with the game and feel a connection between them and the devs. They will defend even a sh-tty game (which BZ is not, it's just not that good) 'till the end so it won't feel that they wasted their lives.

Exactly.
Another thing that always bothered me is that this game was the #1 selling game on Steam the minute it was dropped into early acces.
People had no Idea what to expect and they just bought this game because they loved the first one.
Now that the game is out of early acces and people know what to expect I'm wondering if it's still doing so great.
If it's as good as the original Subnautica (like so many people here claim) I'd love to see some recent sales numbers that confirm that.

Originally posted by Ballsaque:

In ieder geval, met wat ik nu weet koop ik voor die 30 euro liever kippen en kaas. ;-)

Anders ik wel ;)

Many people are still in some form of lockdown, so there is still a demand for home entertainment, games being one of them. My guess is a lot of people just bought the game to have something to do, and ofc its link to the vastly superior Subnautica.

I think sales are solid, but many people realize they bought kind of a turd.

[smitty78749]

yea other realms preformed a sort of gambit. short term this gets them revenue, but going forward this is really going to hurt their future titles.

[Unknown Error]

Originally posted by KippenKaasBaas:

So that makes me believe the original is a WAY bigger hit.

Maybe...Or maybe because the game was released when RE8 and Mass effect re-release got released.

As I've said on here before, the management of the company should be torn a new hole for even having the gall stones to face-up to such juggernauts.

[Sanic]

first one was better anyway

[TheGraveDigger]

Well from steam stats the all time peak was 42,057
https://steamcharts.com/app/848450

[KippenKaasBaas]

Originally posted by Unknown Error:

Originally posted by KippenKaasBaas:

So that makes me believe the original is a WAY bigger hit.

Maybe...Or maybe because the game was released when RE8 and Mass effect re-release got released.

As I've said on here before, the management of the company should be torn a new hole for even having the gall stones to face-up to such juggernauts.

That does not make any sense.
RE8 and Mass Effect are completely different games. This is open world survival. Not first person shooter.

Also the original Subnautica got released into early acces, nobody knew what it was. Just an unknown game from an unknown developer.
But it grew, and grew and grew.
All up into the glory days in early 2018 when it had an average player count of 17.000.
That's what I call succes. To grow into a masterpiece.

Below Zero got released as the sequel to it's incredibly successful big brother. People jumped on the hypetrain immediately.
Who the hell cared what it was? A sequel to Subnautica? This HAS to be great!
So it was sold like crazy. Even though it was early acces and nobody knew what it would become.

Even with the path of succes laid out for them like that, the game never reached above 3.000 average players in early acces.

So if this is really such a great sequel, why are the player counts so incredibly low?

[KippenKaasBaas]

Originally posted by TheGraveDigger:

Well from steam stats the all time peak was 42,057
https://steamcharts.com/app/848450

All time peak is not average monthly players.

[Troubleshooter]

Originally posted by KippenKaasBaas:

Does anyone have an idea about the current sales numbers? I can't find any info on this.
It's no longer in ea so can we see some numbers on the sales yet?

People keep referring to the positive reviews in discussions about the succes of this game. But positive reviews aside, I'm wondering how many people actually bought the game.

Not sure why you care, but I'm probably going to end up buying 5 copies of the game (at full price mind you) in the near future.

[Jean]

Looks like this game developed a problematic "fan" base. Quite common these days.

[TheGraveDigger]

Originally posted by Jean:

Looks like this game developed a problematic "fan" base. Quite common these days.

Eh, just the loud minority complaining
Most of the reviews on the storepage is mostly the quiet majority, the ones that don’t even go on the forums