Latest Steam Weekly Sales Rankings

Post by trog @ 12:15pm 12/04/10 | 40 Comments

Steam have published their latest weekly list of best sellers, offering an interesting insight into what is happening in the world of PC game sales. Here's the list:

Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Mount & Blade: Warband
Just Cause 2
The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom
The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom - Gold Edition
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Chaos Rising
Plain Sight
Counter-Strike: Source
Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West

It's particularly noteworthy to see that Bad Company 2 is outselling Modern Warfare 2, though it would be fascinating to see by exactly how much and to what degree the issue of dedicated servers plays into that purchase decision.

Also of note is that despite the well-publicised issues of the DRM impacting the ability to play the game, the Steam version of Settlers 7 continues to sell well. Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West is another game that reportedly has dedicated servers (though we haven't seen the software yet - in discussion with the publisher about it now), so one that might be worth keeping an eye on; our game page has info, screenshots and videos.

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TiT
Posted 12:25pm 12/4/10

I do like Lead and Gold... Run a few servers myself and with basic adsl 2 connection i have around 6-8 ppl on the server no issues

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greazy
Posted 12:28pm 12/4/10

So I'm probably going to come off as a d*** (but that's normal right?) but I don't really care. When posting a news article say the death of Polish president, it's good etiquette to post the source of the article. Similarly, you should be doing the same.

I think you should be doing this for every single news post you guys do. It adds credibility.

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Hogfather
Posted 12:33pm 12/4/10

greazy: Its entirely possible that Ausgamers get this s*** from an email press release rather than from an interweb article.

Do you want "Source: My Inbox" ?

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greazy
Posted 12:39pm 12/4/10

To be honest I never thought about that and if that were the case then it's all good but I've noticed a lot of the time a source is missing when it would be mighty helpful.

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ctd
Posted 12:41pm 12/4/10

Valve doesn't release any figures for this type of s*** unfortunately.

This is the best you can get from http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

Peak Today Game

113,163 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer
87,519 Counter-Strike: Source
22,439 Team Fortress 2
75,123 Counter-Strike
16,876 Battlefield: Bad Company 2
14,192 Left 4 Dead 2

Which is a pointless comparison anyway because cod6 requires steam running whereas most people would be buying bc2 from other retailers.

Got to lol @ cs (Release date: June 12, 1999) and cs:s (Release date(s) October 7, 2004). Still going strong.

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Hogfather
Posted 12:41pm 12/4/10

Not saying its the case here though ... and any press release should probably be accompanied by a web page as a reference anyway.

Rant maybe valid. Just playing devil's advocate for my man trog. Remember me for Blizzcon trog.

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Scooter
Posted 12:42pm 12/4/10

Ausgamers is the News site, for this type of news. So that would say;
Source: http://qgl.ausforums.com/index.php/439207/?agn=thread&id=2883440

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Lynx
Posted 01:02pm 12/4/10

I just can't believe Counter-Strike: Source, is still selling as well as it is.

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trog
Posted 01:11pm 12/4/10

To be honest I never thought about that and if that were the case then it's all good but I've noticed a lot of the time a source is missing when it would be mighty helpful.

its funny you say that, I was going to post the source like we do in basically every single news post that we do, ever, but I figured, no, I'm sure people will figure out that it comes from the Steam best sellers list

Surely by now you realise we're not in the habit of just making s*** up or publishing rumours as facts, unlike every other jerk blog out there for whom that is bread and butter stuff

I just can't believe Counter-Strike: Source, is still selling as well as it is.

no! I meant to mention that but it was already getting a bit long. Just amazing to see the staying power of this game

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Tetsuo
Posted 02:13pm 12/4/10

[quote] I just can't believe Counter-Strike: Source, is still selling as well as it is.

no! I meant to mention that but it was already getting a bit long. Just amazing to see the staying power of this game[/quote]

Koreans are funny like that....

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`ViPER`
Posted 02:26pm 12/4/10

Remeber those stats for todays online players includes "113,163 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer" which is the demo MP.

2,361 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Thats what the paid version gets

About a quarter of what BC2 is getting.

Not that the COD people realy care how much people keep playing the game after they buy it, as long as they can build enough hype to sell the next version in the same or higher numbers they did with the latest version.

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greazy
Posted 02:36pm 12/4/10

Surely by now you realise we're not in the habit of just making s*** up or publishing rumours as facts, unlike every other jerk blog out there for whom that is bread and butter stuff

I'm not saying you guys make s*** up or even are lax on which sources you use (quite the opposite actually) but a lot of the times I want to checkout the source for more detail.

It's a habit that's been instilled in me because of my profession.

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trog
Posted 02:39pm 12/4/10

Remeber those stats for todays online players includes "113,163 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer" which is the demo MP.

2,361 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Thats what the paid version gets

Where is that data from? I've been looking for that for a while

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`ViPER`
Posted 02:50pm 12/4/10

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

Then click the "View Steam players per game" link down the bottom, expands the page, theres no direct link to it.

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Strik3r
Posted 02:51pm 12/4/10

no thats incorrect. 2361 are playing co-op type stuff

the 113163 is not the demo - thats people playing the multiplayer game.

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iFraktuRe
Posted 02:54pm 12/4/10

But that number still includes people playing on the free weekend.

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ctd
Posted 02:55pm 12/4/10

Yeah cod6 has been consistently performing, just before the free weekend I noticed it dipped below CS:S for the first time (just) since release but now it is way above again.

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`ViPER`
Posted 02:56pm 12/4/10

the 113163 is not the demo - thats people playing the multiplayer game.

I could be wrong, why would it show up twice on the list then? the demo is specically called "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer" unless you get 2 version of MW2 showoing up in your games list when you have the full version once being single player and the other Multiplayer, not sure I havent bought it.

Either way its still on a free weekend.

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ctd
Posted 02:59pm 12/4/10

^ Yeah it is 2 games on your steam list. One for MP and one for SP.

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`ViPER`
Posted 03:01pm 12/4/10

^ Yeah it is 2 games on your steam list. One for MP and one for SP.

Fair enough then.

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trog
Posted 03:05pm 12/4/10

Sweet, be interesting to see how far that drops when free w/e is over

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Methz
Posted 03:11pm 12/4/10

Posting to say how awesomely fun Lead & Gold is when you manage to get a game.
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be many ppl playing it ><
Also I think it got the AvP treatment and wasn't released with the dedicated servers.

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Trauma
Posted 03:13pm 12/4/10

I find it very hard to believe that CS is still selling like that.

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trog
Posted 03:17pm 12/4/10

Posting to say how awesomely fun Lead & Gold is when you manage to get a game.Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be many ppl playing it ><Also I think it got the AvP treatment and wasn't released with the dedicated servers.

I've just fired the devs another email.

I STRONGLY RECOMMEND that if you bought this game and want dedicated servers you hit up their official forums and/or support channel and ask for them mentioning that you are in Australia and good servers are hard to find or whatever!

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ctd
Posted 03:32pm 12/4/10

There are so many server side mods for CS:S it is unbelievable. I played this crazy weird mod called Prison Break where 1 or 2 people act as a Guard and the rest are prisoners and the Guards instruct prisoners tasks over the mic. It was f***en weird some of the s*** these guys were asking. Was typing exit pretty fast on that one.

Then you've got the many people who cheat and have probably gone through 10+ cs accounts after getting banned repeatedly.

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skythra
Posted 03:38pm 12/4/10

I find it very hard to believe that CS is still selling like that.

So many hackers have to buy new copies when VAC kills them.

edit: CTD beat me to saying it

Also I play gun game occasionally. Its good fun when the weapons are random and there is the deathmatch style of respawn when the person who killed you is killed, fast paced and instant gratification. About as far away as you can get from a MMO.

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`ViPER`
Posted 03:37pm 12/4/10

I dont think CS:Source is actually selling big still, I think its just active players.

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trog
Posted 03:38pm 12/4/10

I dont think CS:Source is actually selling big still, I think its just active players.

except it's #9 in Steam best sellers

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`ViPER`
Posted 03:52pm 12/4/10

except it's #9 in Steam best sellers

Huh, didnt notice that. Wonder what the all time sales are for it then?

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Methz
Posted 04:16pm 12/4/10

Trog, steam forums seem to indicate dedi servers being released in approx. two weeks,but as far as I can tell there's no official word from the dev's yet.

oh and they'll only be for Windows
Not sure if that's a big deal for server hosting type ppl but yeah :p
that's all I can find,official forum doesn't have much on it either.

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iWhoop
Posted 05:47pm 12/4/10

I just can't believe Counter-Strike: Source, is still selling as well as it is.

I can't believe people are still playing it. I like to hang on to the past and play some old commodore games & dos games at times but damn, even I don't touch CS anymore.

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euphoria
Posted 06:25pm 12/4/10

There are so many server side mods for CS:S it is unbelievable

If you own cs:s, fire it up and join a Gun Game server (GA and node both have a few) for some good fun.

A warning though, prepare to rage with the crappy hit boxes.

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Bah
Posted 06:31pm 12/4/10

Thread title is misleading, i saw "sales stats" and thought it was odd as i recalled that steam didn't release sales figures, but i clicked and it was just the steam top 10.

Also of note is that despite the well-publicised issues of the DRM impacting the ability to play the game, the Steam version of Settlers 7 continues to sell well.

How do you know, its behind mount and blade warband, i've heard of it but who cares about that, settlers 7 would surely be a bigger name than it, the numbers could be bfbc and cod selling 10000, mount and blade selling 100, and settlers 7 selling 50 copies.

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trog
Posted 06:31pm 12/4/10

sigh

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Bah
Posted 06:32pm 12/4/10

I edited to make my point better.

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iFraktuRe
Posted 07:15pm 12/4/10

But the Settlers 7 occupies both 5th and 6th place.

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plasmo
Posted 08:11pm 12/4/10

prison mod rocks both in css and cs1.6 lol
heaps of fun

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Fuzzy
Posted 09:35pm 12/4/10

I'm atcually looking for some other aussies to play Lead and Gold with.

Hit us up with IDs so I can get players together

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Hogfather
Posted 09:39pm 12/4/10

Thread title is misleading, i saw "sales stats" and thought it was odd as i recalled that steam didn't release sales figures, but i clicked and it was just the steam top 10.

Also of note is that despite the well-publicised issues of the DRM impacting the ability to play the game, the Steam version of Settlers 7 continues to sell well.
How do you know, its behind mount and blade warband, i've heard of it but who cares about that, settlers 7 would surely be a bigger name than it, the numbers could be bfbc and cod selling 10000, mount and blade selling 100, and settlers 7 selling 50 copies.

Yeh but Steam is a pretty big sales vehicle. Being on its top 10 is pretty significant.

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