Posted October 12, 2012
While gog.com is as secretive with it's selling statistics as anyone else in the game selling game, sometimes they slip some indirect info for us, the crowd, to toy with.
This first happened when they made "Order by bestselling" available in the catalog browse page (and I was the first to mention it here in the forums too), allowing us to see what did and what didn't sell that well.
Later, when they revealed the approximate numbers The Witcher 2 had sold here at a specific time (around 10000, if I remember well).
And now, accidentally, through the Divinity promotion.
Though the counter on the promotion's page does not necessarily equals Divinity II's selling, it offers a reasonable approximation. By looking at DII's position on the order by bestselling page, you can imply reasonably well how much games around it sold and how well games under it haven't sold, just like when they released The Witcher 2's info.
Of course, all this is good for absolutely nothing for us gamers/consumers, but I find it fun to observe and share with you guys. :)
This first happened when they made "Order by bestselling" available in the catalog browse page (and I was the first to mention it here in the forums too), allowing us to see what did and what didn't sell that well.
Later, when they revealed the approximate numbers The Witcher 2 had sold here at a specific time (around 10000, if I remember well).
And now, accidentally, through the Divinity promotion.
Though the counter on the promotion's page does not necessarily equals Divinity II's selling, it offers a reasonable approximation. By looking at DII's position on the order by bestselling page, you can imply reasonably well how much games around it sold and how well games under it haven't sold, just like when they released The Witcher 2's info.
Of course, all this is good for absolutely nothing for us gamers/consumers, but I find it fun to observe and share with you guys. :)
