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Re:After 20 years the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used t... by TacticalCoder on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @05:31PM (#33977050)
That's 300 000 units in 7 days since launch if I understand it correctly. Even if we consider (I don't know if that's true or not), that theses 7 days are going to be the best ever for them that's still only 7 days.
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Re:After 20 years the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used t... by datalopers on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @05:34PM (#33977099)
Week1 sales is a decent predictor [1] of Year1 revenue. They'll probably do about 1M unit sales by Christmas 2023.

[1] https://newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/steam-the-state-of-long...

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Re:After 20 years the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used t... by glandium on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @04:56AM (#33981707)
DF is quite special though. It has existed for two decades before being for sale on Steam. It's also a very niche-y game. I don't think normal rules apply to it. I'm afraid sales are going to drop much quicker than predictions say.
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Re:After 20 years the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used t... by cableshaft on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @09:47PM (#33979418)
They'll get a sale from me here before too long. I just know I don't have time for another addiction right now, at least not until the new year. Probably quite a few people being more frugal now because of the holidays that will buy it shortly after. Wouldn't be surprised if it's 500k+ sales by the end of January.
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