I seem to recall reading that the Sultans Ascend was the best selling DLC in Age of Empires history.
I’ve seen comments that the Knights of Cross and Rose is selling ‘like hotcakes’.
Anyone have any info on that? As a big fan of 4 I’d like to know how it’s doing commercially.
All comments welcome.
We got that information from an official post before.
There are some ways to understand how many copies were sold, such as the Boxleiter method (basically, on steam the median sales:review ratio is approximately 35%… this is very innaccurate so you would combine this statistic with conjecture made from its sales chart position and avg playercount).
Using that information we can get a very rough estimate, approx 39000 sold (steam only). Doesn’t sound right to me!
If you want accurate information, especially for DLC, you need the internal data. This is available only to the developer. So we would need to hear from them directly, like last time.
Like MedicMaaan says, unlike movies, Generally, video game sales aren’t public, and must be inferred based on other counts, or announced by the company itself if they know they sold very well.
Is more difficult for DLC: If a game is new, you can infer the number based on the number of players playing it on the first days. But with DLC, you don’t know whether those who play it actually bought it or not. In general, an increase in players due to DLC is synonymous with good sales.
From what we know by inference:
At least when it came out, April 8, Knights of Cross and Ross was the 55th best-selling game that week. And the week before, based on pre-shipments, it was among the top 83. It’s been selling quite well.
Overall, player numbers of AoE IV have increased in the last month:
From what I understand, our expansion is competing in sales with the AoE2 DLC, Three Kingdoms, so they’re currently advertising the latter more than ours.
Well, we’ve had a whole month of hype with Twitter posts every 2 days before the AoE4 DLC release, so it’s fair that AoE2 has its time in twitter, especially to counter the DLC controversy, which curiously isn’t affecting its sales: Is the 71th game of the Top 100 selling this week on Steam.
