Jump in sales?

[taco241 393]

Couldn't help notice the unique player count jumping considerably from 1,333,xxx, close to where it's been for quite a few weeks, up to 1,363,xxx.

Is this due to the patch and possibly banned player who were thinking"Fuck it, I'm gonna script and if I get banned, Standalone is around the corner anyway" coming back with new CD keys? Just my quick thought.

Maybe there was a special offer or sales initiative I'm not aware of.

30,000 is a lot of extra sales all of a sudden. And if legit buys, grosses close to $900,000 for BI. (based on steam price).

...pure speculation

Happy dayZ

Edited November 1, 2012 by taco241

[inch 40]

  On 11/1/2012 at 11:49 AM, taco241 said:

...pure speculation

[taco241 393]

Yes. I said that.

Thanks,

[SmashT 10907]

I think it's an error. It jumped from 1,341,396 to 1,368,994 in 3 hours (almost 30k players). To put that into perspective, over the last couple of weeks it's usually increased by about 2 - 2.5k players per day on average.

Edited November 1, 2012 by smasht_AU

[liamcz@hotmail.com 98]

There would be no way of paying any less that about $25 for the key as all the cheap $4 are all keys which have already been in use due to them being stolen so the cd-key is already registered as a unique DayZ player. So yeah. Looks like a lot of money would have been made. Not sure why there's a sudden increase in buys.

And yes, there was a large banning wave as a few hacks for DayZ have just been patched and with that comes many GB's. But 30k is probably pushing it a little :P

[Mr Nasty 1023]

I had 30k of my closest friends buy them game the other day. BI should pay me 10% of the earnings. Ok maybe im lying. :)

[rocket 16567]

We noticed this too. We have known about under reporting of DayZ numbers for some time, I believe the updated release of 1.7.3 means more servers are reporting users numbers now so that 30k was a difference of those users who's server was not previously reporting.

[liamcz@hotmail.com 98]

  On 11/1/2012 at 12:25 PM, rocket said:

We noticed this too. We have known about under reporting of DayZ numbers for some time, I believe the updated release of 1.7.3 means more servers are reporting users numbers now so that 30k was a difference of those users who's server was not previously reporting.

To have Rocket reply on your post. You should feel honoured, Taco241.

I am legitimately jealous.

[Magzire866 8]

looks legit, just the vast amount of hackers rebuying

[liamcz@hotmail.com 98]

  On 11/1/2012 at 12:43 PM, Magzire866 said:

looks legit, just the vast amount of hackers rebuying

You should probably read Rocket's post first :P

  On 11/1/2012 at 12:25 PM, rocket said:

We noticed this too. We have known about under reporting of DayZ numbers for some time, I believe the updated release of 1.7.3 means more servers are reporting users numbers now so that 30k was a difference of those users who's server was not previously reporting.

[SmashT 10907]

Now it's gone up to 1,429,328 :/

[osiris 44]

1,496,727 unique players right now....

come on 1.5 million ;)

[Caine Hollow 5]

1.539.441 now :D keepin it alive :rolleyes:

[SurviveTomorrow 1]

But check active players in past 24h,its dropping down quite fast,last week was at 58k,now its 38k.

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

Either way exciting news lots of speculation around the circumstances I see some peoples insights but numbers are numbers cheers

Edited November 1, 2012 by Steak and Potatoes

[liamcz@hotmail.com 98]

  On 11/1/2012 at 11:25 PM, Steak and Potatoes said:

Either way exciting news lots of speculation around the circumstances I see some peoples insights but numbers are numbers cheers

Or there's just a lot of determined hackers ;)

[xx_fr0st-w0lf_xx 53]

Wow, well the more people that play dayz the better, I want this game to be as successful as it could get.

[Hetstaine 10852]

  On 11/1/2012 at 12:27 PM, Rammfisch said:

To have Rocket reply on your post. You should feel honoured, Taco241.

I am legitimately jealous.

I love's me some Rocket, but don't get your panties all bunched ;)

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

  On 11/2/2012 at 3:11 AM, Hetstaine said:

I love's me some Rocket, but don't get your panties all bunched ;)

Now that your back my panties aint bunched there on the floor

[liamcz@hotmail.com 98]

  On 11/2/2012 at 3:47 AM, Steak and Potatoes said:

Now that your back my panties aint bunched there on the floor

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[DanielTy88 133]

  On 11/1/2012 at 11:25 PM, Steak and Potatoes said:

Either way exciting news lots of speculation around the circumstances I see some peoples insights but numbers are numbers cheers

Didn't Derpy also say it would be a struggle to reach 1.5mill when we hit the 1.3mill mark not to long ago? lol Edited November 2, 2012 by DanielTy88

[SmashT 10907]

2 million by standalone?

[LawsOfFire 21]

  On 11/2/2012 at 5:32 AM, smasht_AU said:

2 million by standalone?

and then we all have to buy it again when standalone is ready. Bohemia is making money here

Edited November 2, 2012 by LawsOfFire

[OrLoK 16191]

Hello there

We don't *have* to buy it. I'm sure there'll be those who stick with the mod version. Regardless, I hate to say it, but Dayz mod was free.

Rgds

LoK

[teppo 13]

  On 11/2/2012 at 6:40 AM, orlok said:

Hello there

We don't *have* to buy it. I'm sure there'll be those who stick with the mod version. Regardless, I hate to say it, but Dayz mod was free.

Rgds

LoK

ffs, everyone knows what cost what. If you didnt have Arma you had to buy it to play DayZ. DayZ is free for those with Arma. Everyone knows this.. And my understanding is that theres been significant increase of sales of Arma since DayZ came about.