2010 download statistics
Submitted by Earok on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 00:00There are the statistics for game downloads for the last nine months of 2010, unfortunately I don't have any information for January through to March because that was before I migrated back to Hole in the Wall.
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1. Derelict
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7,239
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2. The Kiwi's Tale
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4,068
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3. Blow Stuff Up
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2,542
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4. Firestart
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160
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5. WitchBlaster
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42
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6. Crap Flight Sim 2
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29
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7. Heart of ice
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19
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8. Guncat
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16
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9. TD 2192
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13
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Total
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14,128
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Not too shabby. I think the main reason why Derelict, The Kiwi's Tale and Blow Stuff Up have far higher download counts is because all of them are featured on freeware sites.
What is perhaps more interesting though, is the list of top ten countries by bandwidth downloaded:
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Country
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Bandwidth (GB)
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1. China
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64.90
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2. Poland
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50.11
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3. US
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46.84
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4. Brazil
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24.01
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5. Germany
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15.78
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6. Italy
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15.48
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7. Mexico
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15.22
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8. Argentina
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10.80
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9. Chile
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10.40
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10. Spain
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10.15
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What really shocked me was that, of the entire list, there is only one English speaking country, and it is only in third. Four are Spanish speaking. I definitely plan to offer all of my games in Polish, Spanish, Portuguese (Thanks again Gui), German and Italian, but unfortunately since I can't support Unicode yet I may not be able to do Chinese translations.
Edit - Arran inspired me to add a list of top ten referrers. Here they are.
Comments
Big in China eh? Seems Kiwi's tail is classified as a game for children aged 6 and over:
http://www.kidsdown.com/youxi/dongzuo/Kiwi-Tale.htm (Mal ware warning on the page btw.)
Haha, that's incredible. Thanks for that. I'd love to share it, shame about that link having malware.
Actually I think the bigger surprise was Poland, given their relative populations..
Maybe anonymizer proxies have something to do with it?
Anonymizer proxies? Are there a lot of them in Poland?
No idea. However it doesn't sound that farfetched. ;P I personally don't use them. (It's always an obscure European country!)
I've seen the games on Czech freeware sites (Czech language is not far removed from Polish) so I figured that's probably the main reason.
Do you have any more information regarding the source and referrer?
I've updated the article with that info. Except that there are no Chinese ones, the referrers list roughly aligns with the top countries list.
Yeah, that's quite interesting. Any ideas?
About why no Chinese sites? I figured the massive web presence of the Chinese players randomly browsing for games was the main reason. I also suspect socio/economic factors have an influence (I presume AAA Commercial titles, particularly controversial ones, aren't quite as available in the PRC as they are in the West).
That said, I think I do remember seeing Derelict reviewed on a Chinese page with a list of zombie shooters (L4D etc), but for the life of me I can't remember where it was.