【蓝贴】D3是否会成为销售量最高的游戏？ [复制链接]

狂暴的右手

帖子: 513
精华: 0
积分: 257
金钱: 737
荣誉: 0
人气: 0
评议: 0

电梯直达

楼主

发表于 2009-7-19 04:19:04 |只看该作者 |正序浏览

原帖地址：http://bbs.blizzard.cn/read.php?tid=3637

问：
你认D3能不能成为销售量最高的PC游戏呢？是不是已经初见成效？
我感觉游戏爱好者数量达到了从没有过的高度，至少我认为这是超越D1和D2销售先兆。
答：
历代游戏的比较是评介成功与否的重要指标，但是单纯的销量统计是不真实的。得到真正的结论需要大量的统计与调查。
很多排行都试图把不同的游戏作比较，但事实上你并不能完全正确的作出评论或者比较。
用我们现成的例子——魔兽争霸来说明。并不是所有地方的玩家都会买正版游戏（在说我们）。所以对我们最有意义的指标可能是那些活跃的玩家（不清楚他指的是什么，不过我想可能是像moon或者sky之类的人物在一个地区的数量）。当然，我们不会完全不参考销售量，毕竟考虑销售量是很合乎逻辑的。
只评价销售量只会得到不真实的结果——那只是不完全的统计。当然，这不是统计者的错误——那只是商业性的统计。

原文：
问：
Do you think D3 can hit the highest sold pc game ever? Or is it not even going to make a dent?
It feels like the fanbase is as big as its ever been and i think it will ATLEAST beat out D1 and D2 sales by a longshot.
答：
I know that comparing one number to another seems to be a good idea for how to gauge popularity or success of something, but statistics can be shaped and formed to fit any outcome desired. It sometimes takes a lot of research and information to find an actual common ground to compare one number to another.
A lot of these lists do their best to post numbers released by the different companies, but if you look at what the numbers are actually saying you couldn't accurately compare all of them.
In our case not every region that plays World of Warcraft purchases a boxed product, so that coupled with the nature of the game, possibly the "best" number for us to gauge worldwide popularity is through active subscription numbers. For every release we also include a piece of text that explains exactly what we count as an active subscriber, and it's a very logical, no-pulled-punches way of describing them.
To take that number of subscribers though and compare it to total boxes sold of other games would be inaccurate. These types of lists just don't wholly exist with an actual baseline to compare them accurately, and that's not the list maker's fault, it's just the nature of business to release a statistic that is favorable to your product.