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    KaosAngel

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    #1  Edited By KaosAngel
    Here's the link! 
     
    Top 10 of 2010 List 
    • Call of Duty: Black Ops (Activision) – $98.2 Million USD 
    • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision) – $39.4 Million USD 
    • Left 4 Dead 2 (Valve) – $36.0 Million USD 
    • Battlefield: Bad Company 2 ( Electronic  Arts) – $25.4 Million USD 
    • Sid Meier’s Civilization V (2K Games) – $21.9 Million USD 
    • Portal (Valve) – $20.0 Million USD 
    • Fallout: New Vegas (Bethesda Softworks) – $17.0 Million USD 
    • Metro 2033 (THQ) – $13.4 Million USD 
    • Mafia II (2K Games) – $11.9 Million USD 
    • Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising (THQ) – $10.8 Million US 

    What we can take from this information, a lot of you idiots bitch about BLOPS and then buy it regardless.  This includes MW2.  Good job, can't wait to see how you guys bitch about MW3 this year.    
     
    Despite selling BC2 for 7 fucking bucks, EA did a great job on PC.  Someone get the average price of BC2 and divide it by 25 million so we get a rough total of how many copies it sold for PC.  For COD games just divide it by 60.   
     
    Warhammer is up there, so that's good.  As I enjoy SC2, I am glad that another RTS is there...even if I don't like the competitive online.  But to each their own.   
     
    Also, Portal is strong. 
     
    Discuss.   
     
    PS.  PC gaming dead, obviously.  
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    #2  Edited By No0b0rAmA

    You have put a smile on my face. I salute you sir.

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    #3  Edited By Jeffsekai

    Can people stop saying PC gaming is dead everytime something PC gaming related happens...

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    #4  Edited By danimal_furry

    Who said PC gaming is dead? I have plenty of games for the PC. That is crazy talk.

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    #5  Edited By fwylo

    I didn't bitch about MW2, and I also didn't buy it on PC.  I DID on the other hand bitch about Black Ops, which I didn't buy.
     
    I didn't buy any of those games actually.  Portal... that shit was free and it still sold 20 mil.  

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    #6  Edited By endless_void

    Fuck the whole ''pc gaming is dead'' bullshit

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    #7  Edited By borodin

    Really awesome to see Metro did well, love that game!

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    #8  Edited By flannelbeard

    damn. thats great to hear. i love steam and i am glad that it proves a great service (with constant sales on good titles) can be super successful.  
     
    i keep saying that if they just reduce the price of games they would likely sell more. i often buy things on sale on steam with no regret. but when $60 is on the table i get really picky.
     
    Value does a lot of things right by us and I am glad it is working out well for them.

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    #9  Edited By shivermetimbers

    I wonder how well Call of Duty would sell on PC if it had no multiplayer and the game's single player campaign freezes as soon you you start it.

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    #10  Edited By BrainSpecialist

    I'm surprised to see to Mafia II on this list, I was under the impression it had sold really badly.

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    #11  Edited By KittenMitten

    I am, and hopefully will always be, glad to see Valve doing well.

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    #12  Edited By Geno

    Nice to see that Metro did relatively well. 

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    #13  Edited By Pie

    The only pc games there are civ 5 and warhammer. Just saying

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    #14  Edited By TheHT
    @endless_void said:
    " Fuck the whole ''pc gaming is dead'' bullshit "
    The only times I hear it is when information like this is released and it's said ironically.
     
    It's probably time to stop saying it. Good new in any case! Steam's a beast!!
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    #15  Edited By ProfessorEss

    It would be nice if we could use this billion dollar report to put the whole "Valve just does this because they love gamers" thing to bed as well?
     
    Two beds with one stone.

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    #16  Edited By ZombieSpace

    WoW.

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    #17  Edited By SSully

    I am surprised by portals sales because If it was like 5 bucks on different sales, it also was given away for free multiple times. 

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    #18  Edited By MegaGoat

    PC gaming is not dead!
    It's console ports instead

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    #19  Edited By Giraffeking

    how can portal make that much money when they gave it away for free?

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    #20  Edited By KaosAngel
    @SSully said:
    " I am surprised by portals sales because If it was like 5 bucks on different sales, it also was given away for free multiple times.  "
    ...yeah that's what got me.  I can't figure out who didn't pick it up for free.  It was free when OSX got Steam, free during the summer, and once before the holidays.  Then if you owned HL2 it was only 2 bucks during the sale.  
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    #21  Edited By HaltIamReptar

    That's some hardcore playing around with numbers if you seriously think that by dividing by sales price you get units sold.

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    #22  Edited By ryanwho

    Kinda thought New Vegas would sell better than that on account of all the fucking mods. 

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    #23  Edited By KaosAngel
    @HaltIamReptar: It's easier with BLOPS cause it's been a flat 60 bucks, but MW2 was on sale for 30 bucks for a weekend.  BLOPS is the only one that can be fully known, the rest had sales.
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    #24  Edited By deactivated-5afdd08777389

    PC gaming is dead! Pssh...billions of dollars. Whatever man...haha.

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    #25  Edited By Skytylz

    I like PC gaming, but it is nowhere as big as consoles and never will be.  That's why people say pc gaming is dead, but it isn't it's just in second place.

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    #26  Edited By ryanwho
    @Skytylz said:
    " I like PC gaming, but it is nowhere as big as consoles and never will be.  That's why people say pc gaming is dead, but it isn't it's just in second place. "
    You mean the combined efforts of 3 console platforms outsells the single PC platform? Wow that's amazing and surprising.
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    #27  Edited By Scooper

    And who said PC gaming was dead?
     
     
    Ps. If anyone wants to take that sentence and use it for the next 30 years go ahead.

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    #28  Edited By dagas

    How could Portal make $20m during 2010!?!?! Not only do I expect that most people bought it in 2008 or 2009, but they also gave it away for free at one point. Anyone who wants it should have had it and there should have been no need to buy it in 2010. 
     
    Not saying they don't deserve t, they do. I love that game, but that so many people payed money for it during 2010...very unexpected.

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    #29  Edited By Jimbo

    That's billion bucks!

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    #30  Edited By Skytylz
    @ryanwho said:
    " @Skytylz said:
    " I like PC gaming, but it is nowhere as big as consoles and never will be.  That's why people say pc gaming is dead, but it isn't it's just in second place. "
    You mean the combined efforts of 3 console platforms outsells the single PC platform? Wow that's amazing and surprising. "
    What's even more surprising is that they probably outsell the PC individually.  
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    #31  Edited By time allen
    @dagas said:
    " How could Portal make $20m during 2010!?!?! Not only do I expect that most people bought it in 2008 or 2009, but they also gave it away for free at one point. Anyone who wants it should have had it and there should have been no need to buy it in 2010.  Not saying they don't deserve t, they do. I love that game, but that so many people payed money for it during 2010...very unexpected. "
    gabe newell has to do something with all that money
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    #32  Edited By loganwtf

    Good for Valve, I had kind of forgotten about PC gaming for a long time and then when they released Steam for Mac I jumped back in. Now steam is the only reason that I have a Windows partition on my MacBook Pro. 

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    #33  Edited By haggis

    PC gaming was never dying, but there was the threat that it might die if something didn't come along to make it safe for developers again. And Steam has done that. I have to admit that until I picked up Steam, I hadn't bought a game for the PC in years. I mean, where do you even go to buy PC games? Hardly anyone carries a decent selection. Steam makes it easy to access games, and unites the PC gaming community. It's been an amazing success.
     
    As for the Portal thing ... I'm with everyone else. I picked it up for free. Obviously some people still got it when it wasn't. Strange that it's still doing so well so long after its release.

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    #34  Edited By Cincaid
    @KittenMitten said:
    " I am, and hopefully will always be, glad to see Valve doing well. "

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    #35  Edited By Bollard
    @fwylo said:
    " I didn't bitch about MW2, and I also didn't buy it on PC.  I DID on the other hand bitch about Black Ops, which I didn't buy. "
    I get the impression those Portal statistics are false... Didn't they give it away for FREE last year? Maybe they counted those as sales? 
     
    Anyway ignoring that, what we can deduce is Steam > Boxed PC games now. No going back I guess,
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    #36  Edited By SomeJerk

    More like TF2 Hats (Valve) - $800 million USD

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    #37  Edited By wolf_blitzer85
    @Jimbo said:

    " That's billion bucks! "

    Here I am thinking I was going to be all clever and shit until I scrolled down just a little further. 
     
    It had to be said though. 
     
    2011 Motherfuckers.
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    #38  Edited By fwylo
    @Chavtheworld: They did give it away for free. But only for a little bit. 
     
    And that shit is always on sale too.  So who knows, maybe they can count it and say that they bought it and just gave it away or something.
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    #39  Edited By deactivated-5f8ac39b52e76

    As always with steam, those figures are a pure fiction and could be wildly inaccurate, given Valves non-disclosure policy regarding sales numbers.

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    #40  Edited By teh_pwnzorer
    @Skytylz said:
    " I like PC gaming, but it is nowhere as big as consoles and never will be.  That's why people say pc gaming is dead, but it isn't it's just in second place. "
    Xbox 360 will never be as big as the Wii or PS2.  I'm not really sure you want to go down this road, xbot.
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    #41  Edited By Skald
    @Geno said:
    " Nice to see that Metro did relatively well.  "
    I agree, I quite like that game.
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    #42  Edited By Skytylz
    @teh_pwnzorer: Seriously? Xbot?  God, I haven't seen that used on GB yet.  Congrats, you made giantbomb a little worse.  
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    #43  Edited By Animasta
    @Pie said:
    " The only pc games there are civ 5 and warhammer. Just saying "
    metro 2033 is a PC ass PC game that was ported to the 360. Just saying
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    #44  Edited By kishan6

    Im incredibly glad to see that metro 2033 did that well.... 
    Hopefully this will show THQ that they really are onto something here 
     
    and im willing to bet that more people as of right now own portal than own call of duty black ops... 3 years in and it sold 20 million dollars worth and it was free multiple times during the year... AND it costs less than black ops

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    #45  Edited By KaosAngel
    @Laketown said:
    " @Pie said:
    " The only pc games there are civ 5 and warhammer. Just saying "
    metro 2033 is a PC ass PC game that was ported to the 360. Just saying "
    If you want to keep doing down this list so was L4D2, Portal, and BC2 (technically).
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    #46  Edited By AhmadMetallic
    @KaosAngel:  how much of that 1 billion dollars did Valve make for themselves ? 
     
    also, how could they make 1 billion when they sell games for 5 and 6 bucks ?
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    #47  Edited By ryanwho
    @Laketown said:

    " @Pie said:

    " The only pc games there are civ 5 and warhammer. Just saying "
    metro 2033 is a PC ass PC game that was ported to the 360. Just saying "
    Also, Starcraft and WoW are so huge that Blizzard has its own fucking distribution network. Also, 2 of those games are by Valve. Guess what Valve runs? Steam. Steam is the first outlet for all Valve games. So any other version of a Valve game is the port. Just saying.
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    #48  Edited By KaosAngel
    @Ahmad_Metallic said:

    " @KaosAngel:  how much of that 1 billion dollars did Valve make for themselves ?  also, how could they make 1 billion when they sell games for 5 and 6 bucks ? "

    I dunno, but if they do stuff like Apple and keep 30% of the sales then they made about 300 million just by assumption.   This of course doesn't include Valve games, as they keep that 100%.
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    #49  Edited By HaltIamReptar
    @KaosAngel said:
    " @HaltIamReptar: It's easier with BLOPS cause it's been a flat 60 bucks, but MW2 was on sale for 30 bucks for a weekend.  BLOPS is the only one that can be fully known, the rest had sales. "
    I don't know about that either.  Do these numbers consider money gone to distributors, etc.?
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    #50  Edited By Th3_James

    I bought 80 games on pc in the last year. So, for me it is not dead, but more alive than ever. 

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