Frontier's Annual Results have been published (June 2018 to May 2019), showing a record year and Elite passing 3 million basegame sales

[zimms]

But, won't paint sales drop if there are no more models to paint? Will Frontier stop selling the game because they make more money with paintjobs?

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

But, won't paint sales drop if there are no more models to paint? Will Frontier stop selling the game because they make more money with paintjobs?

They still have warhammer 40000 and other areas that are selling well. They still need painting. Shame really, I really like warhammer fantasy.

 

[RolloTreadway]

Once again FD confirm their commitment to adding content to ED, so that's nice. We can only hope that the 2020 update is going to be something decent and Fleet Carriers are a good feature.

Anyone got a working magic 8 ball?

SPACE BALLS CONFIRMED!

 

[Agony_Aunt]

And Powerplay.

Haha, nice joke

 

[[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos]

Besides, 3 millions units sold does not say anything about active players right now. Nobody knows that number for sure.

Spoiler

 

[Bigmaec]

Why should they - from a cold business point of view - if a steady flow of new players keeps the game growing?
btw, no one has mentioned steam charts yet in this thread. Are they broken?

3,683
playing 9 min ago

6,280
24-hour peak

18,039
all-time peak

Elite Dangerous - Steam Charts

An ongoing analysis of Steam's player numbers, seeing what's been played the most.

steamcharts.com

 

[Viajero]

Doom?

Undoubtedly. 5 years in. Any time now.

 

[don carnage1]

Just have a look at steam stats to get an idea. Or twitch streams. Or YT vids. Console most played. etc.
If it's worse than Anthem's numbers you can start worrying.

I see where you’re going, but I don’t think we can compare Anthem’s problems to Elite. Elite is a small game from a small developer targeted to a niche audience. It can’t be measured against AAA blockbuster titles designed for mass appeal, even ones that were critical failures. That’s like comparing a terrible year for Aston Martin sales to Morgan.

People have run rough number crunches in the past using publicly available info, though. What they always find is that the active PC player base appears strong. PC seems quite safe.

Active console numbers are always much, much weaker. But since we don’t know anything about what overhead costs FDev associates with console it’s impossible to say whether that’s a cause for concern.

*edited for clarity

 

[babelfisch]

Just have a look at steam stats to get an idea. Or twitch streams. Or YT vids. Console most played. etc.
If it's worse than Anthem's numbers you can start worrying.

Ok.
Takes a look at steam numbers
Oh, it appears like they are currently higher than they used to be 4 years ago in 2015.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

Ok.
Takes a look at steam numbers
Oh, it appears like they are currently higher than they used to be 4 years ago in 2015.

No doom, then I fear.

 

[Craith]

Ok.
Takes a look at steam numbers
Oh, it appears like they are currently higher than they used to be 4 years ago in 2015.

Still doomed. Also please stop debunking my unfounded fears with facts, thank you very much.

 

[VR SenseiMatty]

These aren’t good metrics. Elite is a small game from a small developer targeted to a niche audience. It can’t be compared to AAA blockbuster titles designed for mass appeal, even ones that performed worse than expectations. That’s like comparing Aston Martin sales to Morgan.

Kind of... yeah there are company that even after a huge fiasco they're still in the business and other companies that close immediately after. At the moment Frontier is the second type in my opinion.
BUT
Growing numbers are stil growing numbers so everything's good so far.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

They still have warhammer 40000 and other areas that are selling well. They still need painting. Shame really, I really like warhammer fantasy.

I think Total War and Warhammer turned out to be a near perfect match.

 

[babelfisch]

No doom, then I fear.

That's not how it works. You need to make up some other completely arbitrary and unrelated argument. That's how you do it:

https://imgur.com/rNjCBUZ

Source: https://i.imgur.com/rNjCBUZ.jpg

 

[Viajero]

These aren’t good metrics. Elite is a small game from a small developer targeted to a niche audience.

I think they are pretty reasonable metrics for a small game by a small developer targeted to a niche audience indeed.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

I think Total War and Warhammer turned out to be a near perfect match.

Except TW2:W2 brought my computer to its knees... on turn 1.

How the hell does a turn base strategy view do that? I didn't even get to the battle screen. I just quit when it was taking me 20 seconds to scroll to click on a unit.

 

[[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos]

Unless they publish these figures on Galnet so that I might peruse them whilst super-cruising around, I’m not sure how Frontier can even have the nerve to claim to be transparent.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Still doomed. Also please stop debunking my unfounded fears with facts, thank you very much.

When Star Citizen releases the game will be doomed!

So... we are safe for another 10 years or so

 

[Bigmaec]

That's not how it works. You need to make up some other completely arbitrary and unrelated argument. That's how you do it:

https://imgur.com/rNjCBUZ

Source: https://i.imgur.com/rNjCBUZ.jpg

I mean, that is totally logical.
Higher temperatures mean your router craps out more often, meaning pirates would starve because they can't get your vopals.
So climate change is directly responsible for the bad experience pirates have in Elite: Dangerous.

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

I mean, that is totally logical.
Higher temperatures mean your router craps out more often, meaning pirates would starve because they can't get your vopals.
So climate change is directly responsible for the bad experience pirates have in Elite: Dangerous.

I new it. My loogical conclusion was right all along.