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Gabe Newell's DICE Keynote: Left 4 Dead Sales, Valve Comic Books [Dice09]
Kotaku —
... platform don't stop there. Newell also mentioned that for a particular third-party game (which goes unnamed), sales went up 36,000% following a weekend sale. Sure, that's a hand-picked statistic (it's just one game, and we don't know how low sales were beforehand), but it's also an enormous figure. - Responding to audience questions, Newell believes that it's inevitable that a service like Steam - which started on the PC - will eventually migrate to consoles. Live Blog: DICE 2009 Keynote - Gabe Newell, Valve Software [G4]
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Gabe Newell's DICE Keynote: Left 4 Dead Sales, TF2 Comic Books [Dice09]
Kotaku —
... platform don't stop there. Newell also mentioned that for a particular third-party game (which goes unnamed), sales went up 36,000% following a weekend sale. Sure, that's a hand-picked statistic (it's just one game, and we don't know how low sales were beforehand), but it's also an enormous figure. - Responding to audience questions, Newell believes that it's inevitable that a service like Steam - which started on the PC - will eventually migrate to consoles. Live Blog: DICE 2009 Keynote - Gabe Newell, Valve Software [G4]
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Newell on Piracy, TF2 Comics, and More
Blue's News —
There's a Live Blog of the DICE 2009 Keynote on the G4tv Website recapping an address by Valve's Gabe Newell on the topic of "entertainment as a service," discussing ...
Valve's Gabe Newell at DICE: Patches, Steam sales and Team Fortress 2 comics
Big Download Blog —
Filed under: FPS, Multiplayer, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2The annual DICE Summit is now underway in Las Vegas with Valve's co-founder Gabe Newell giving the high-end game conference's keynote address. Gamespot covered the event and here are just a few highlights:
Newell sees their games like Team Fortress 2 and more recently Left 4 Dead as more than stand alone products but as services and that constant updates help improve service and sales for those games. Newell ...
Left 4 Dead sees 3000% jump in sales on Steam
Opposable Thumbs —
Steam's ability to provide instant feedback to developers is one of its major selling points. This is especially helpful when it comes to pricing, as the developers can quickly see how lowering or raising the price on a particular game affects its sales. And as it turns out, it has quite a large impact, as we saw during the 50 percent off sale of Left 4 Dead last weekend.
While speaking at DICE, Valve's Gabe Newell revealed that a recent sale on the Steam version of Left 4 Dead led to an astounding sales increase ...
Gabe Newell: Valve Are Very Rich. It’s Awesome.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun —
... Well, that’s what you get reading between the lines of Gabe Newell’s keynote at this year’s DICE Summit, speaking about Valve’s experience with STEAM and how digital-download direct-sales are an enormous success. G4 liveblogged the event in loving detail while ...
Gabe Newell
Dubious Quality —
... and "revenue far eclipsed the game's sales during its launch window." Plus new Steam customers rose by 1600% over the "baseline." Each one of those new customers is increasing the size of the pie. Did retail sales drop during that period? No. This was not cannibalization, according to Newell, because retail sales held steady. Here's more. Steam also had a holiday sale, and here are the results (thanks to the G4TV liveblog, which you can read here): 10% sale = 35% increase in sales (real dollars, not units shipped) 25% sale = 245% increase in ...
Steam's Left 4 Dead sale increased purchase infection by 3000%
Joystiq —
... Left 4 Dead saw a 3000% increase in sales during its Steam sale last weekend. Valve's Gabe Newell revealed the stunning figure during his DICE keynote, in which he also announced the digital distribution service also saw its ...
'Team Fortress 2' PC Gets Scout Update, Half-Price Until Friday
G4 TV - TheFeed —
... The latest update for Team Fortress 2 has gone live with new achievements, weapons, and unlocks for the Scout class. Additionally, Valve has cut the price of TF2 by 50 percent to $9.99 through Friday. I'm guessing they hope to see a similar sales increase that came from dropping the price of Left 4 Dead. ...
Valve's Genius and the Steam Digital Distribution Model
A wall of text on mmo gaming —
... . Valve is adding quality games to its Steam repository, adding value to the platform with every acquisition. Steam allows Valve to shake things up with sales and different pricing schemes. Valve recently ran a weekend special that put its popular game Left 4 Dead at half price, offering it for $25.00 for the weekend. This experiment paid off for them hugely as reported by Valve's founder Game Newell at G4TV's live blogging of his address at DICE 2009: Drop your prices and sell a crap load of product, making even more money. This reminds me of ...
Capcom: Digital Distribution is the Future of PC Gaming
G4 TV - TheFeed —
... Steam, as you know, has been incredibly successful for Valve and I firmly believe that digital distribution will dominate PC gaming in 1-2 years. ...
The influence of the reductions in the sale of computer games: the case of Valve and Steam
My Gamer Blog —
... The data on which I base to affirm this have been revealed by proper Gabe Newell, founder and the director of Valve Software, in a conference which content gathers G4TV, it fills of interesting declarations, from that I emphasize three important points: ...
Reasons I will not be buying Modern Warfare 2 on the 12th November
Life is a Mind Bending Puzzle —
I have bought every Call of Duty game available for the PC. I think that Call of Duty Modern Warfare was a stunning achievement which raised the bar for both single and multiplayer gaming. I am very much looking forward to playing Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 2 but I will not be buying it on the release date of 12th November. These are my reasons why. ...
