Re: Are *any* games as popular as World of Warcraft?

2007-10-02 Thread Stefan Dösinger
Am Montag, 1. Oktober 2007 21:36:26 schrieb Roderick Colenbrander: Call of Duty is popular but I would say that CounterStrike (+ CounsterStrike Source, the port to the Source engine) are way more popular. More and more games these days are distributed using Steam. That's something to watch

Re: Are *any* games as popular as World of Warcraft?

2007-10-02 Thread Kai Blin
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 11:12:41 Stefan Dösinger wrote: I think the main blockers for Wine as a gaming Platform isn't D3D any more. A few months back sound used to be a blocker, but Maarten has done a great job on that. Most issues seem to be located in the copy protection area, and in

Re: Are *any* games as popular as World of Warcraft?

2007-10-02 Thread Reece Dunn
On 01/10/2007, Jesse Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/1/07, Daniel Remenak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No other single game has the market penetration and staying power of WoW as things stand. I think starcraft has it beat for penetration and staying power, actually. But WoW is the

Re: Are *any* games as popular as World of Warcraft?

2007-10-02 Thread Reece Dunn
On 01/10/2007, Dan Kegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/1/07, Reece Dunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Searching Google is only really useful around the time of release (with a suitable time window either side). If that were true, I would expect World of Warcraft's google search curve to have

Are *any* games as popular as World of Warcraft?

2007-10-01 Thread Dan Kegel
I spent some time noodling around looking at what games are really popular (I wouldn't know firsthand, I don't play much). There's some data at http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/videogames (click on PC Games). I tried to cross-check titles with Google Trends to see which ones seem enduringly

Re: Are *any* games as popular as World of Warcraft?

2007-10-01 Thread Daniel Remenak
No other single game has the market penetration and staying power of WoW as things stand. XFire collects statistics[1] from their (large) network, if you're interested in minutes played as opposed to copies sold.Be aware that it's not a random sample, though; some game communities (like Call

Re: Are *any* games as popular as World of Warcraft?

2007-10-01 Thread Jesse Allen
On 10/1/07, Daniel Remenak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No other single game has the market penetration and staying power of WoW as things stand. I think starcraft has it beat for penetration and staying power, actually. But WoW is the current money maker.

Re: Are *any* games as popular as World of Warcraft?

2007-10-01 Thread Dan Kegel
On 10/1/07, Jesse Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/1/07, Daniel Remenak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No other single game has the market penetration and staying power of WoW as things stand. I think starcraft has it beat for penetration and staying power, actually. But WoW is the current

Re: Are *any* games as popular as World of Warcraft?

2007-10-01 Thread Roderick Colenbrander
On 10/1/07, Jesse Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/1/07, Daniel Remenak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No other single game has the market penetration and staying power of WoW as things stand. I think starcraft has it beat for penetration and staying power, actually. But WoW is the

Re: Are *any* games as popular as World of Warcraft?

2007-10-01 Thread Dan Kegel
On 10/1/07, Reece Dunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Searching Google is only really useful around the time of release (with a suitable time window either side). If that were true, I would expect World of Warcraft's google search curve to have flatlined long ago, but instead it's still going strong.

Re: Are *any* games as popular as World of Warcraft?

2007-10-01 Thread Vincent Povirk
Because this is my solution to everything, here's a wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games#PC The Sims belongs on that list based on google trends. On 10/1/07, Dan Kegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/1/07, Jesse Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On