That's interesting to know :)

What I'm really curious about is how many copies of different games sell on Gog, but as that's harder to work out from the data available I'll make do with a rough idea of how much they're turning over :)


It's ok, I wasn't offended. I was just saying that my very rough estimate was way off your much more considered one :)

I think in this case as well the high points (the top 10) are probably far above the actual average spend. If you dropped out of the top 100 or 200 you're probably getting closer to a more normal spend.

At a guess (based on how much I'd imagine people are spending) I would say the average is likely to be maybe $30 per person, which isn't far off what you'd calculated

Ah, OK. Nah, if I had taken fictional values, I would have found a much higher value at the end. ;)

I think the XP intervals are right. Users around rank 26,000 should have a final XP of at least 14,000 (what adaliabooks said in the first post); and users around rank 22,000 should have a final XP of at least 21,000 (what Maxvorstadt said in the second post). Just add 5,000 XP to everything and you should get the final amount.

Edit. Maybe you got confused because of yet another simple mistake? I wrote "26,000 - 22,000 users who amassed more than 9,000 XP but less than 97,000 XP," but it obviously should be 16,000 XP. I hate copy-pasting, but it's so convenient!

And I'm glad I'm not the only one not really understanding English math stuff . . . or, rather, sad for both of us. :P

Oh. Well, here's another misunderstanding of mine. I thought you meant that my answer was ten times as worse as yours. I read it in a totally wrong setting, kind of like "Dare speak to me again. You're nothing to me." Sorry! :\

I didn't even calculate the average, but yeah, $30 seems like a reasonable one. The top values often weigh far more heavily than the rest. You can go as high as you want, but you can't go below zero, so they can't really be nulled.

You forgot to take into account any money GOG may have paid to the developers of Spelunky, Gabriel 20th and Dreamfall Chapters. These kind of freebies are typically not given away out of the goodness of the devs' hearts.

Coming up with a remotely accurate number is near impossible with all the factors combined.

CD Projekt is publicly traded so just wait until the next quarter and read their financials if you want a general idea.

GOG makes money? Those greedy bastards!

Ask Desura about that. :) I love math and like your way of thinking about this. :)

Just as a reference, Age of Decadence roughly doubled its number of copies sold here during this sale according to its dev.

I was amused to see that there were a couple people who spent like $2500 on the sale. That's... quite a bit.

I dropped $100 or so. Not that much, but probably on the high end of the spectrum.

This thread piqued my interest so here is my info if it helps.
I earned all badges, spent $221.64 which got me 227570 XP and my current rank is #353.

I spent $230 and got 231870xp (without any badges nor anything like that but the automatic one) and ended up #335.

(With that same xp I was #258 on tuesday, so that was quite a drop for the last day of the sale)

is there a way to check where one was. i spent 13 aud on bloodlines. but i don't i was opt in.

Hard to measure. So the dude who got the throphy spent what? Probably a ton! ;D

I've added a level of data, thanks to some previous posts.

Oh, I agree. I'm just providing a minimal estimate of what was spent during this sale (by users who opted-in). Getting a really accurate number of what they've made during this sale would require factors that are not available to simple users: refunds, Fair Price packages, deals with the publishers and even taxes, probably. It's simply beyond our scope.