Killing Floor outselling MW2 on Steam

[VariousNames]

[url]http://store.steampowered.com/feeds/weeklytopsellers.xml[/URL]

On Steam's weekly top sellers, Killing Floor justly outsold Modern Warfare 2, which has an insane advertising budget and is the highly anticipated sequel to a game rated 9.0+ on nearly every videogame review publication in the world.
#6 - Killing Floor
#7 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Finally, TWI getting some recognition?

 

[Nekomancer]

It seems the free weekend and the alltime low price (18€ is pretty cheap compared to other games with equal content) had an effect, but that will end soon. As with every game that had an free weekend.

 

[Man And A Half]

1 - Price. KF is $20, and MW2 is $60. That leads me to point #2:

2 - Infinity Ward is ****ting all over its PC fanbase, one point being MW2's price. A PC game should not have a price as high as an Xbox game - $20 of the Xbox game's price is a levy from Microsoft so that they can actually make a profit off their console.

 

[Phantomspiker]

2 - Infinity Ward is ****ting all over its PC fanbase, one point being MW2's price. A PC game should not have a price as high as an Xbox game - $20 of the Xbox game's price is a levy from Microsoft so that they can actually make a profit off their console.

This is probably the main culprit right now.

 

[Mr. Shoe]

Actually I think it's that combined with the fact that there isn't dedicated servers. That scared many people away from ever touching it.

 

[Man And A Half]

Actually I think it's that combined with the fact that there isn't dedicated servers. That scared many people away from ever touching it.

That's one other issue. Related is IW's decision to, like many other games in the console era, make the bad decision of forcing players to go through a back-end matchmaking system.

 

[Sinful Malice]

Yep, I heard or read somewhere that in certain countries, numbers as high as 75% of consumers had cancelled MW2 preorders.

 

[pocoyo]

$60 for a pc game with no dedicated server?

 

[BlackLabel]

hush..there is enough threads in diverse forums about MW2

 

[Fedorov]

1 - Price. KF is $20, and MW2 is $60. That leads me to point #2:

and here people complaining that TWI games don't sell BECAUSE they have low prices. well... in your face!

 

[nath2009uk]

Leads me to point 3

3)
MW2 sucks because it's basically Cod4 with new skins and weapons, and CoD4 is CoD2 with new skins and weapons, and Cod2 is CoD1 with new skins and new weapons.

 

[driftwood]

To be fair each of those games runs on different engines which is enough for me to consider them different games. And I don't know how modern warfare is at all similar to CoD1/2 which were WWII games. You'll might as well say that every shooter game is wolfenstein 3D with new skins and weapons.

 

[xjames0x]

To be fair each of those games runs on different engines which is enough for me to consider them different games. And I don't know how modern warfare is at all similar to CoD1/2 which were WWII games. You'll might as well say that every shooter game is wolfenstein 3D with new skins and weapons.

I would like to keep the topic on killing floor but I just have to say this.

The Cod 6 (MW2) engine is basically the Cod 4 engine with new graphics. And so on.

IW Have put me off call of duty for a while (till I get my new xbox @ xmas)

The whole dedicated server fiasco is a joke. There selling out the PC fanbase.

I'm not that worried about the price as GAME are offering it

 

[Fedorov]

Or maybe Mass effect 2 or AC2 or BC2 or Crackdown 2.........

So many 2s =P

 

[VariousNames]

AC2 is meh if the first game is any indication.

Mass Effect will be a good choice, but maybe I could steer you towards the already released Dragon Age Origins? Looks pretty good, another Bioware developed game.

Bad Company 2 will have dedicated servers on all platforms, so that's good.

But, yes, Killing Floor is always a good choice. If you haven't played Red Orchestra Ost Front....it's a war sim from Tripwire, very modestly priced and also happens to be the best online FPS I've ever played, if you're into realism.

Up next for me is Red Orchestra Heroes of Stalingrad

Aside from that there's always strategy games, Company of Heroes, Warhammer Dawn of War, Total War, Civilization, Warcraft....can't go wrong with that bunch.

 

[Nenjin]

Yeah...hate to say it, but this is showing the price effect more than anything. The fact S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is even on that list at all proves it. Using free or discount weekends as a barometer of a game's popularity is generally a bad idea.