Disappointing sales. The Elder Scrolls Online outsells Heavensward.

Ok, so Heavensward makes it to top 10 as a subscription based MMO and you say it is disappointing? Sorry, but I feel no disappointment here.. actually I am pretty satisfied.
Plus I know maybe like 2 guys in my FC who bought HW from retailers lol.

are you people seriously discussing this, its retauil statistics, like 10% of pc sales are retail anymore.

So... an English originated game sold better RETAIL than a Japanese originated game (that does most stuff digital).

You probably be hard pressed to find that many stores with many physical copies in stock of FFXIV or HW, just saying.

You know, if you check Steam, it's also around that area, ranked 7th, just above Fallout 4 (which isn't even released yet, congratulations Yoshi, your game beat a pre-order!)

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Originally Posted by jazo

hum... Iorel, are you ignoring all the post that points the irrelevance and biased criteria of the link you posted and just picking on unrelated stuff??

Have some decency and edit your OP saying it was just a joke or you posted it ironically or something.

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My post wasn't a joke. A market as big as the UK is a ample sample size to see how the game is selling in other markets worldwide.

The only difference will be Japan as there game market is very different from the rest of the world.

A good example would be this. The X box one only sold 100 units last week in Japan yes you read that right ONLY 100 http://kotaku.com/xbox-one-reaches-a...ium=Socialflow

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Originally Posted by Naraku_Diabolos

You are forgetting digital sales, too.

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this, I work at gamestop and we barely had anyone show me, the customers I know that played it, myself, and a co-worker all bought it online.

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My post wasn't a joke. A market as big as the UK is a ample sample size to see how the game is selling in other markets worldwide.

The only difference will be Japan as there game market is very different from the rest of the world.

A good example would be this. The X box one only sold 100 units last week in Japan yes you read that right ONLY 100 http://kotaku.com/xbox-one-reaches-a...ium=Socialflow

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thing is, in general this game isn't as popular in europe compared to other areas for several reasons. It's really not the best comparison

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Originally Posted by Lexxuk

You know, if you check Steam, it's also around that area, ranked 7th, just above Fallout 4 (which isn't even released yet, congratulations Yoshi, your game beat a pre-order!)

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That's insanely good, considering how many limitations the Steam version is causing, and thus how few people actually use it for FFXIV.

This doesn't include digital sales. Probably doesn't include anything bought before Early Access, and I only know a few people who bought HW on/after the June 23rd release.

Who the heck cares about steam in case of an mmo???
Srsly <.<
Guys stop bitching about irrelevant numbers Ô.o
MMORPG is a very specific genre after. Stop comparing it to things that don't matter at all.
The only thing that counts is how many subscribers wow will lose to it in the end.

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Originally Posted by lorel

My post wasn't a joke. A market as big as the UK is a ample sample size to see how the game is selling in other markets worldwide.

The only difference will be Japan as there game market is very different from the rest of the world.

A good example would be this. The X box one only sold 100 units last week in Japan yes you read that right ONLY 100 http://kotaku.com/xbox-one-reaches-a...ium=Socialflow

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Time to stop replying only to things you can prove wrong and realise that most players bought the game in digital state. Especially the collectors.
If you wanted to troll, congratulations, you were succesfull.