{mod edit- removed link. Info may be found via VGChartz.com}

Ya and that just in the americas, It will easily sell 2-3 million copies.

GJ :)

Due to the weekend beta testers and their 3 friends who watched them play? Mass beta invites started on the 7th...coincidence?

Almost 600k then for America then.

I am curious if that includes digital preorders through Origin. As digital downloads on pc games have been increasing over the years up to around 50% of total game sales according to some researches. Here's one from last year.

It's still around 9 weeks to launch so with a conservative average of 40k additional preorders each week = around 900k preorders in the America's + around the same number in digital preorders = 1.8 million America's only. Double that for the rest of the world and we are at 3.6 million people wanting to jump in at launch 0_0

That is ... if the info in the OP excludes digital preorders. If it includes them the grand total would be around 2 million.

Originally posted by DarkPony

Almost 600k then for America then.

I am curious if that includes digital preorders through Origin. As digital downloads on pc games have been increasing over the years up to around 50% of total game sales according to some researches. Here's one from last year.

It's still around 9 weeks to launch so with a conservative average of 40k additional preorders each week = around 900k preorders in the America's + around the same number in digital preorders = 1.8 million America's only. Double that for the rest of the world and we are at 3.6 million people wanting to jump in at launch 0_0

That is ... if the info in the OP excludes digital preorders. If it includes them the grand total would be around 2 million.

That chart is from vgchartz website. And no it does not include any digital orders or European pre orders. Only american stores and sites like amazon (i am not sure about the online orders).

That website redirected me to a porn site which attempted to install a fake Adobe Flash Player (almost certaintly a virus).

Well, I can certainly say after the beta last weekend, that you can count me among those preorders just as soon as I can pull the money together.

Originally posted by grawss

That website redirected me to a porn site which attempted to install a fake Adobe Flash Player (almost certaintly a virus).

Are you sure thats not a virus on your computer?  I clicked the site and viewed what the OP was talking about without being redirected anywhere just fine.

On-topic: In other words, the game will make up its investment costs regardless of its quality, not counting box sales after the game releases. I find it sad that games no longer have to stand up on their own merits, but instead can take advantage of how easily people will throw money at things.

Originally posted by marinrider

Originally posted by grawss

That website redirected me to a porn site which attempted to install a fake Adobe Flash Player (almost certaintly a virus).

Are you sure thats not a virus on your computer?  I clicked the site and viewed what the OP was talking about without being redirected anywhere just fine.

I just finished scanning, and no viruses found. I have adblock plus and a hosts file list to prevent ads, but noscript was disabled.

No harm done, but just be wary. Maybe post the screenshot instead of the website?

Originally posted by grawss

On-topic: In other words, the game will make up its investment costs regardless of its quality, not counting box sales after the game releases. I find it sad that games no longer have to stand up on their own merits, but instead can take advantage of how easily people will throw money at things.

A game-dev has certain 'trusts' if they produce things a person likes on a consistant basis, just like all labels.

e.g I buy an Intel CPU because I liked the performance I got the last time I bought it. 

A 'Made by Bioware' label = 'Buy' for the millions of people out there, including myself.

Those who grew up playing Baldurs Gate series or bought Mass Effect/Dragon Age series recently etc.

Originally posted by jpnz

Originally posted by grawss

On-topic: In other words, the game will make up its investment costs regardless of its quality, not counting box sales after the game releases. I find it sad that games no longer have to stand up on their own merits, but instead can take advantage of how easily people will throw money at things.

A game-dev has certain 'trusts' if they produce things a person likes on a consistant basis, just like all labels.

e.g I buy an Intel CPU because I liked the performance I got the last time I bought it. 

A 'Made by Bioware' label = 'Buy' for the millions of people out there, including myself.

Those who grew up playing Baldurs Gate series or bought Mass Effect/Dragon Age series recently etc.

 

It was more a comment on the genre, not this specific case. Pretty much all MMORPGs are successes, failure or not, simply because people throw money at them like crazy.

"reported as an attack page", please mods delete the OP link, it is a .ru scam or virus infection page. If your link have valid content OP please find an other none infected link.

That link redirected me to some page promising naked videos of celebrities. Remove the link and find an alternative please OP.

http://www.vgchartz.com/preorders.php

Link to to actual site where the list is from.

Hype dont make good games, and who cares about preorders (AoC anyone) ? wait for reviews and then decide. In first few weeks there will be lags, queues and bugs anyway.

Thanks for the info and i also got some popup from some add so seems like theirs add /spyware when trying to go to site.

I just clicked the link, page showed up, then avast Antivirus went mental, flashing red, trojan detected. Careful

edited to add...

The second link is fine.