2009 was a rough year for the game industry as a whole and very rough for the PC game industry, at least in terms of sales of game titles at brick and mortar stores in the US. Industrygamers reports that according to the NPD Group, sales of PC games at the retail level totaled only $538 million last year. That's a whopping 23 percent drop from 2008. By comparison, console game sales "only" went down eight percent in 2009. Of course these numbers do not include any sales of games via digital download services which are taking a bigger piece of the sales pie every year.
Blizzard may have accidentally revealed the release date for Wrath of the Lich King Classic with an edit to the expansion's product page.
The random dungeon finder existed in the original Wrath of the Lich King. It needs to exist in Classic Wrath as well.
BLG writes: "To celebrate the announcement of Dragonflight, the latest World of Warcraft expansion, we decided to rewatch all the game’s cinematics and rank them from worst to best. Including the latest one, of course. In fact, we purposely waited until the new expansion got announced before putting together this list because we wanted to see how the Dragonflight trailer stacked up against all the other WoW cinematics. Spoiler alert: it’s not amazing, but it's not the worst one either."
NPD numbers do not matter when you're looking at PC software sold. Why even bother posting them?
*edit* In the past 2 years I have bought 28 of my last 30 PC games on Steam or D2D.
yeah I think i'd be about time for online seller to give numbers
Just like High Definition, people will only care about Digital Distribution when its standard on console.
Pc games simply sell more copies online. Its a fact
I still buy certain ones at retail. usually MMo's or sometimes the GOTY editions with all the expansions if its on sale for 20.00 or something like that.