650k sold in first week?

[AranWade]

I saw this, 424k copies sold on ps3, 152k on PC (numbers are based at 31 august)
remember Vgcharts dont Count Digital Copies (70k? maybe)

http://www.vgchartz.com/

ps3
http://www.vgchartz.com/game/35098/f...-realm-reborn/

PC
http://www.vgchartz.com/game/35106/f...-realm-reborn/

Im not an expert, is good or bad?

Edit:i guess we should wait the Number of Subs lol,
Edit2: the general opinion seems it sold well, the game sold more, Vgchart is bad

[Jynx]

I'll just break it to you easy first.

VGcharts is known to be notoriously bad at getting their numbers right. If it did sell this much with all the bad press it's been getting then colour me very suprised to say the least. The developers would have to put a astronomical ammount of work into the server structure then because the game could originally hold what like 250K Yoshi said? He then added a few worlds and increased the cap and still having alot of issues (Not as bad but still there)

Good sales are good for the game though, but like alot of MMO's it's really about who can stay beyond the honeymoon phase and when you reach the endgame so fast it will be interesting to see if we ever get solid numbers out of SE (I doubt it) How quickly they drop or how well they sustain over the next 6 months.

[cloverkitty]

Most people I know that were not 1.0 bought digital copies.
All Legacy and 1.0 (there were a lot) got their 2.0 copy free.
To top that of their numbers from VGchart have notoriously been inaccurate. You also have to look at when those chart numbers were put together.
If that is just pre-order than that is very good.
My guess is after subs start the total will settle to around a million which is about what FFXI had before things shrank after 8 years.

regardless of the number SE was expecting to make a profit just on the numbers they had, They exceeded that by multiple times to the point they had to halt sales.

After about a year look at the number of subscribers that will tell you if it is a success or not. As long as SE continues to make a profit causing them to put out more content regularly then I consider it a success regardless of the number of people.

[MeowyWowie]

My guess is after subs start the total will settle to around a million which is about what FFXI had before things shrank after 8 years.

You, ma'am, just made me squirt milk out my nose from laughing so hard and now owe me a new keyboard.

[parkerjones]

envisioning you squirt milk outta your nose... was enough to make me smile! the game rocks. Ezorea is not for the faint of heart - fans will stay - everyone else may leave if they choose. peace.

[Raijin]

250k contious connections is not 250k players who paid for the game

[HoroBoro]

That's good news! I'm leveling a DPS right now, but I have a 20ish CONJ and hoping to level a Marauder after that. There will be more random people to do dungeons with :3

[Verlande_Darquandier]

In 3 month 60% of the actual players will be gone.

[Ashgarth]

You, ma'am, just made me squirt milk out my nose from laughing so hard and now owe me a new keyboard.

Why? That is completely accurate. You should check the numbers before you waste any more milk.

[Duuude007]

Currently 1.29 million per this (not counting digital)

The question I have is: are these new box sales, do they include returning players who don't need to pay for the software again?