As revealed by market analyst Matt Piscatella, the sales Of Helldivers 2 in the USA they are increased for the third week in a row. This is a real anomaly within the videogame market, given that in most cases even the most commercially successful titles record a physiological decline after the week of debut. What can I say, a great victory for the “controlled democracy” of Super Earth.
As we can see in the posts below, sales usually have a more or less steep decay curve in the weeks following launch. In this sense, according to Piscatella, the inverse and constant trend of Helldivers 2 represents a rare and fascinating case.
“Helldivers 2 sales in the United States increased once again during its third week of release,” Piscatella said. “So far, it's about an inverse decay curve. I feel like Steve Irwin spotted a rare bird or something. Rare and surprising.”
Piscatella added that Helldivers 2 cannot simply be defined as “growth”.
“Normally, sales are highest for a new release during week 1 and decline over time. With an “inverse decay curve” the trend reverses. This is rare, especially for larger games. Simply saying “growth” does not explain its natureas the “growth” may be temporary, for example resulting from discounts.”
Is it all thanks to word of mouth?
With hindsight, it is clear that neither Sony nor Arrowhead Game Studios expected such a huge success for Helldivers 2 and even looking at the data recorded on Steam it is possible to see how the maximum peak of connected users was only reached several years after launch of the game, a sign that after a relatively quiet start, the game has won over more and more players thanks to extremely positive word of mouth from the community and the consequent media coverage.
No doubt the developers will now have every intention of capitalizing on this success by convincing players to stay on the game servers through constant updates with new content. Among these, we already know that there will be pilotable mechs, but some dataminers have also discovered the new enemy faction of the Illuminati and ready-made Stratagems that deploy ground vehicles.
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