As of August 2017, the game has sold over 2.75 million copies.
It's been over a year, so what are the current total sales?
It's been over a year, so what are the current total sales?
What are the Total Sales of Elite Dangerous?
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All of them.
They should make a Nintendo Switch version. It would work with lower graphics settings.
Really, who cares! If someone did produce a figure, someone else would counter it and say it isn't realistic, someone else will counter that NMS/X4/SC sold more copies in the same period so that means ED is doomed.
All I know is that I enjoy the game, especially after the 3.3 update, and as long as the servers are still running I will be playing (finger's crossed) - to me that is the only criteria I need.
All I know is that I enjoy the game, especially after the 3.3 update, and as long as the servers are still running I will be playing (finger's crossed) - to me that is the only criteria I need.
Its not very well marketed . I was a early backer on kickstarter because I remember the original. If I was a teen I doubt I would have heard of it and would be playing some random game on the console.
Hardly any women play. South Korea is a big
I would have thought all those Star citizens player would have jumped on it. But because Its a British product that may be a reason. What happened to the release in China. The game is so fragmented with private groups thats why u don't see any players
They should have made CQC a Battle royale . Esports.
Hardly any women play. South Korea is a big
I would have thought all those Star citizens player would have jumped on it. But because Its a British product that may be a reason. What happened to the release in China. The game is so fragmented with private groups thats why u don't see any players
They should have made CQC a Battle royale . Esports.
The total sale number is important because basically the number of Horizon players is the TAM (Total Addressable Market) for the future DLC. I don't think that, at this point in the life of the game, will still be able to attract completely new players when the next paid update will be launch. Therefore, Frontier will invest only a certain amount of effort: you cannot spend 20 million $$$ for a potential sale of 1 million SKUs costing 20 $$$ each.
Most pc owner bought the life time pass in advance.
Damn, Monty ninja'd!
If there were no sales any more we'd probably see less development. IMO Elite is doing fine.
Perhaps 500000 more ?
And the full game is currently on sale for £ 9.60 in the store. Will add new Cmdrs for Christmas.
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Considering past trends, I will take a guess it has added about 250 - 300k new commanders. FD however concentrated their efforts to make sure they stay and return if they leave game.
Only Frontier can answer that question.
I certainly don't see it reaching enough to pay 100+ devs and others to continue any major development. Bear in mind also, that they have new title coming-out. The best way to 'guesstimate' viability is to go this way;
100 on team, each on say £45000 = £4.5 million. If they price the next update £20 and 225000 players buy it, they still will not have broken even. I highly doubt there are Amy more 'active' players than that, and in fact think it's much, much lower. Now add in server rentals, business overheads, marketing, over-time and it doesn't look amazing.
Now add in that the 3.3 drop has been a disaster, and I think you'll find a lot of players will hold back a bit on a paid expansion to see how it looks, and how it is deployed.
But on the good side, we can also add in the shop sales. If we assume a player base of 100k spending £50 a year on colours for their ships, then we can add on 5m. That brings it back into viability, but not great. I do think they make more than 5m on the shop tho. They have forced a situation, whereby to compete, you really do need Horizons so that would be extra sales. Also add in their junk sales of everything for £11 and you get a lot of sales, not necessarily equating to a lot of players actually staying.
Right now the servers are creaking at the seams, and judging by the recent graphics overhaul, the engine is starting to creak a little.
Bottom line in my opinion, is all good, they'll continue to develop, but nothing like previous. For the coming year I expect to see a rewrite of something and something new, possibly lush planets or a limited boots on the ground.
I certainly don't see it reaching enough to pay 100+ devs and others to continue any major development. Bear in mind also, that they have new title coming-out. The best way to 'guesstimate' viability is to go this way;
100 on team, each on say £45000 = £4.5 million. If they price the next update £20 and 225000 players buy it, they still will not have broken even. I highly doubt there are Amy more 'active' players than that, and in fact think it's much, much lower. Now add in server rentals, business overheads, marketing, over-time and it doesn't look amazing.
Now add in that the 3.3 drop has been a disaster, and I think you'll find a lot of players will hold back a bit on a paid expansion to see how it looks, and how it is deployed.
But on the good side, we can also add in the shop sales. If we assume a player base of 100k spending £50 a year on colours for their ships, then we can add on 5m. That brings it back into viability, but not great. I do think they make more than 5m on the shop tho. They have forced a situation, whereby to compete, you really do need Horizons so that would be extra sales. Also add in their junk sales of everything for £11 and you get a lot of sales, not necessarily equating to a lot of players actually staying.
Right now the servers are creaking at the seams, and judging by the recent graphics overhaul, the engine is starting to creak a little.
Bottom line in my opinion, is all good, they'll continue to develop, but nothing like previous. For the coming year I expect to see a rewrite of something and something new, possibly lush planets or a limited boots on the ground.
Nope. If I remember correctly there have been ~45.000 Kickstarter backers who could've bought the LEP. Not all of them did. The LEP was shortly available again during Horizons preorder but only few people bought it. Steamspy used to show the owners of Elite and Horizons and I remember that Horizons didn't sell well during the first year. LEP owners probably have the biggest interest in the game though which is why you'll see lots of us on the forums.
You forget how many Commanders seem to want their own look, so then there's expensive cosmetics stuck all over that.