Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"
schmidtster@lemmy.world 9 months agoDo you mind not sensationalizing the quote?
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“With only 10 reviews on Steam, saying a 400% sales increase is an eye-catcher for sure but not necessarily as huge a financial payoff in context as that percent shouts at us,” he explained. “Others can correct me if I’m wrong, but Steam reviews usually hover around roughly 2% to 5% of copies sold, so if we go off of 5% and it has 10 reviews, that’s around 200 copies sold. If a 400% increase occurred, then they’ve now sold close to 1,000 copies. That’s really awesome for an indie dev; a few thousand bucks is nothing to shy away from and can get them going on their next project. I do believe it gave them a boost, but this is very much a PR headline rather than an exponential overnight success.”
Patches@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
schmidtster@lemmy.world 9 months ago
So where did the one sale to four come from?
Patches@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
schmidtster@lemmy.world 9 months ago
There was no need for a demonstration, the article covered.
It’s based off of somewhat viable statistics, some games release sales data and you can extrapolate and get a decent sample size. So not a wild guess in the slightest.
And it’s moot, I can provide dozen more similar claims, there’s even been studies done.