Troubled Spore Still Dominates PC Chart
EA may be facing legal fallout from its use of SecuROM with Spore, as well as continuing negative press from the draconian restrictions on user accounts (which it has relaxed to some degree), but none of that seems to be impacting sales.
Spore and Spore Galactic Edition took the top two spots for sales in the second week of September (ending Sep 13), and the Spore Creature Creator sat pretty at #4. Here's the whole chart, which isn't exactly brimming with diversity:
- Spore
- Spore Galactic Edition
- The Sims 2 Apartment Life
- Spore Creature Creator
- World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest
- The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
- World Of Warcraft
- World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade
- Warcraft III Battle Chest
- Crysis
Three Spores, three WoWs (four if you count all Warcraft games) and two Sims 2s: that's not exactly a subtle trend. I'll confess, the PC gamer in me made a little "eep" noise when I saw this list.
Spore dominates US PC chart [GamesIndustry.biz]
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Posted to Miscellany on 24 September 2008
· Comments (5)
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i giggled a little when i saw this top 10 list for some reason....maybe it's because i'm bored out of my mind..
I still can't believe WoW is taking up so much of the chart after... years?! Is there anyone left on the planet who doesn't have a copy by now?
And I wonder if Spore being at the No.1 spot will be even more reason for EA to carry on with their DRM policies. All the people allegedly boycotting the game because of it doesn't seem to have hurt it any.
True Poltergasm, but the fact that it was available in Torrents a full week before it was out in the US also doesn't seem to have hurt it any.
The DRM might have cost them some in the long-run, but clearly didn't make a dent either way.
The difference in sales will be a massive amount, the difference between it been number one, and number one for 4 months.
It's sold truckloads, more since they lowered the price, but I and tons of others have refrained from buying it, these are all actual lost sales, as we're all prepared to pay for it, just lose the DRM and we'll walk out the next day.
Alternatively, wait a few weeks until it slips down the charts then drop it and it'll fly back up.
Thank god neither of you run business figures, enough to get to the top doesn't necessarily mean piracy isn't a massive problem, Spore is the biggest PC release for a very long time.
*chuckles*
..."draconian"...