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Re: Share your sales numbers

Nostic111 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:38:59 GMT

Dark Flow Studios:
Nostic111:
^why do you say that? What other big games are coming out? Left 4 Dead, Dragon Age, and Assassin's Creed are already out. What's left?

Bioshock 2 in Jen/Feb. Final Fantasy (likely both PS3 & 360) in March. That's just off the top of my head. I know there are more too. But for the holidays, I'd say it's all MW2 (especially) and L4D2 that will be eating up sales.

yea, but I was talking about the rest of this year. December seems pretty clear to me. No tripe A's.

Re: Share your sales numbers

Ork Priestess Games — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:17:22 GMT

Slingstar has been selling moderately. I was on the top selling and best rated and new releases at one point, but fell off new and seem stuck right around position 29 in terms of best rated. However I have been on the IGN.com top picks for about a month so I can say how that helps, since it is the only place my game is listed (other than the black hole of "All-alphabetical") I have been consistantly getting about 7-12 puchases a day for the month I have been on there (except last weekend, which was about 2 a day) and about 50 trials a day.

Today is a big milestone: 1000 copies sold.

Anyway when I fall off the IGN.com picks I'll tell you guys how that changes things.

Benjie

Trials: 6827

Purchases: 1001

Purchase/Trial Ratio: 14.66 %

Re: Share your sales numbers

GloryHornetEmmo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:55:53 GMT

Kris Steele:
I'm hoping to finish my Abudction Action! game this December... but for these reasons just mentioned, I don't plan to release until at least a week or two into January. Some extra time to polish the game won't hurt either.

I would try to aim for a release the week after Xmas, obviously it is not really in your hand with peer review, but by the middle of Jan all those points people got for Xmas will be spent

Re: Share your sales numbers

Kris Steele — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:27:56 GMT

I'm hoping to finish my Abudction Action! game this December... but for these reasons just mentioned, I don't plan to release until at least a week or two into January. Some extra time to polish the game won't hurt either.

Re: Share your sales numbers

Dark Flow Studios — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:42:37 GMT

GloryHornetEmmo:
I would think that Indie games sales will have a big jump for the couple of weeks after Xmas, that is what happens to XBLA, it is because of all the MS points given as Xmas presents

True true. I completely forgot about that.

Re: Share your sales numbers

GloryHornetEmmo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:06:45 GMT

Dark Flow Studios:
Nostic111:
^why do you say that? What other big games are coming out? Left 4 Dead, Dragon Age, and Assassin's Creed are already out. What's left?

Bioshock 2 in Jen/Feb. Final Fantasy (likely both PS3 & 360) in March. That's just off the top of my head. I know there are more too. But for the holidays, I'd say it's all MW2 (especially) and L4D2 that will be eating up sales.

I would think that Indie games sales will have a big jump for the couple of weeks after Xmas, that is what happens to XBLA, it is because of all the MS points given as Xmas presents

Re: Share your sales numbers

Dark Flow Studios — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:58:51 GMT

Nostic111:
^why do you say that? What other big games are coming out? Left 4 Dead, Dragon Age, and Assassin's Creed are already out. What's left?

Bioshock 2 in Jen/Feb. Final Fantasy (likely both PS3 & 360) in March. That's just off the top of my head. I know there are more too. But for the holidays, I'd say it's all MW2 (especially) and L4D2 that will be eating up sales.

Re: Share your sales numbers

Nostic111 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:35:52 GMT

^why do you say that? What other big games are coming out? Left 4 Dead, Dragon Age, and Assassin's Creed are already out. What's left?

Re: Share your sales numbers

DeadlyEvilRyu — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:20:38 GMT

So with the holidays coming up and all I'm thinking my game won't get bought until maybe after Christmas or at least a few weeks before.

Re: Share your sales numbers

Barkers Crest — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:05:44 GMT

http://www.gamerbytes.com/2009/11/the_impact_of_modern_warfare_2.php

Pretty sure it affected Avatar Golf too.

Re: Share your sales numbers

MatthewM — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:51:59 GMT

Looks like Pumpkin Chop is pretty much done selling now, 1-2/day with < 10 trials at this point. Had a fairly good run though:

Trials: 34822

Purchases: 3828

Purchase/Trial Ratio: 10.99 %

Most sales in one day: 483

Somewhat surprisingly, 700 of those sales were after Halloween. Oh, and it was 80 points, so net to me should be around $2600.

Re: Share your sales numbers

hamsteralliance — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:43:59 GMT

ezmuze+:

Trials: 83757
Sales: 11989
Conversion Rate: 14.31%

and some other random numbers:

Most sales in a day: 234
Least sales in a day: 12

The original ezmuze has done around 4000 sales.

The ZMan:
Kissy Poo has had just under 200 sales in 3 days... 8% conversion. Its a niche audience so 2400 trials is not bad. It'll buy George and me some dinner and a beer ;-)

We've had several reports of kids asking to play the game so making the kids happy seems to have worked.

Kissy Poo!! Wheeeeeee! I've always wanted to make a kids game.

Re: Share your sales numbers

The ZMan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:01:08 GMT

Kissy Poo has had just under 200 sales in 3 days... 8% conversion. Its a niche audience so 2400 trials is not bad. It'll buy George and me some dinner and a beer ;-)

We've had several reports of kids asking to play the game so making the kids happy seems to have worked.

Re: Share your sales numbers

MommysBest — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:19:00 GMT

WoC's sales dropped by about 50% two days a go as well, but are back up to relative normalcy. I also figure it was probably MW2 (at least as it effects action games and the gamers that buy and play them.)

Re: Share your sales numbers

Harald Maassen — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:20:34 GMT

Kris Steele:
MommysBest:
Kris Steele:
Thanks for the info! Looks like your trial downloads stayed pretty similar (I wish mine were half that good) while you doubled up on your conversions. Since you're selling at a little more than half the previous price (240 instead of 200), you've made some increase in overall profits though not by a huge measure. That's good news to hear and something that hasn't been the case for others I've seen posting here.

I had really hoped trial downloads would go up with a price change, but for you at least that doesn't seem to be the case. Perhaps longterm they will though as more people realize the lower price. There isn't really a good mechanic now for notifying people of a price drop though (through the Xbox interface) so my hopes of that is really more wishful thinking.

You're welcome! I hope it's useful.
I think there's a little misunderstanding (or I'm confused by what you're saying). Either way I added a little more analysis to the sales on the devlog again. http://mommysbest.blogspot.com/2009/11/october-09-numbers.html
We saw about 1.4 times the trial downloads after the price change so, the trial downloads definitely increased. And we saw about 1.38 times the revenue.

Thanks for the further clarrification... that's good news that your download numbers went up in addition to a higher conversion rate. I'll probably be changing the price of my game too when I can... just not sure if I want to go down to 240 like you or all the way down to 80... even if I make less money, I almost want to just go with 80 so I can maximize the number of sales I get and get more people playing my game.

So far for me 80 points is working out better than 200. It's not a big difference income-wise, but it's nice to see a really high conversion rate :)