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Considering the dates of the games
12:03, 25 December 2020 (UTC)190.46.238.9 (talk)
I’ve noticed that a decent chunk of the list items featured questionable and unreliable sources and I would like to help update the list to more accurate figures and have new reliable sources. I Am Hunted (talk) 16:59, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
Thanks I’ll take a look I Am Hunted (talk) 17:38, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
I’ve decided to merge cells. I moved games with the same sales figures and merged the series cells and I merged cells if the game was published and developed by the same studio. Do you this this is a good idea or not? I Am Hunted (talk) 01:39, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
(Note: Should not be confused with SteamSpy) In 2018 there was a leak with Steam's API service and someone managed to extrapolate the player numbers of over 13'000 games. As Steam is a PC only platform these numbers would be of great interest for this list.
As these numbers where calculated via achievements, they are not exact. However, they are precise. The largest error margin cannot be more than ±10'000 players, in most cases less than that, which is only a nominal matter considering we deal in millions and hundred-thousands. Plus, these are low estimates as they require any individual player to have at least 1 achievement in any particular game.
Would this list be of interest for this article? Or is there something that disqualify it? https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/07/steam-data-leak-reveals-precise-player-count-for-thousands-of-games/ --Christoffre (talk) 19:23, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
https://www.eurogamer.net/how-are-segas-video-games-selling https://www.pcgamer.com/total-war-three-kingdoms-sold-a-million-copies-in-a-week/ https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/23/civ-vi-was-a-large-contributor-to-take-twos-net-revenue-growth/ hope this helps2601:405:4A80:B950:C4BA:540B:8A30:1436 (talk) 17:13, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-i-planet-zoo-i-has-surpassed-1-million-sales-in-under-six-months 2601:405:4A80:B950:8D8A:5056:E7D6:E63B (talk) 18:20, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
So, I have a question. I played Europa Universalis IV and noticed that the numbers given for this particular title on this table is 1 million copies sold. Yet, in the Wikipedia entry for this game, the article indicated that it has two million owners as of February 2021, per the source from SteamSpy website. Should that website be trusted as a source for the information on this list?
I checked the list of sources deprecated (or blacklisted) for Wikipedia and SteamSpy is not listed, but I am uncertain about this, hence asking this question. I also searched on Wikipedia and, sure enough, there is an article on SteamSpy, which indicated that there is accuracy concerns with the data provided by the site. So... should this source be used or not? Legion (talk) 10:58, 29 September 2023 (UTC)