Mass Effect: Andromeda DLC - WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?! *Clearing Up Misconceptions* [BioFan Video

Now now, that's no way to talk about Croatsky - he seems nice, if a little bit biased.  You wouldn't want to get banned.

Huh? Its common practice to ignore NPD and VGChartz when considering digital sales. They haven't been 'doing them for years'.

Do you think a 3-day sample of 113k users is more accurate?  And NPD does track some digital sales - not Origin though.
www.polygon.com/2016/7/12/12158862/npds-tracking-reports-to-include-digital-sales-for-the-first-time

VGChartz isn't perfect and had made mistakes in past, especially today when they lack digital sales numbers. Physical copies are not as "hot" as they used to be.

And NPD has NO reliable method to reveal digital sales numbers, they are quite frankly shooting in the dark. And the fact they can't replicate that for PC digital sales, just shows how their method for counting digital sales is flawed.

Also if in case you are correct, somehow NPD has very accurate digital sales numbers, then why the hell EA doesn't admit ME:A sales are poor and disappointing? Instead EA says the opposite, that they are happy with BioWare with ME:A. Lying to investors about poor sales is a way to lose investors, as well it goes strongly against EA's historic precedent where they always publicly admit when a game is a failure or disappointment. Yet they don't do that, while apparently there are public numbers that "prove" ME:A sold badly.

You are putting way too much faith on those sites, whom no longer have reliable methods to count sales numbers years ago, and making up conspiracy theory that EA is lying to public and investors for no real good reasons and which will backfire hard on them if they did lied.

suikoden because I'm quite frankly disinterested to explain to you how surveying methods work, with your continuous condescending response.

You should actually read the Ars article. ME:A is ranked 145th by their metrics... Right behind Pneuma: Breath of Life and Super Mega Baseball... Do you think those games outsold Andromeda? Because that's what you're implying.

It gets better, Titanfall is ranked 8th. Based on the Reddit articles reasoning, that means it must have sold 8.5m.... And that means Black Ops 3 sold over 20m on Xbox alone...

Maybe I just need you to explain to me how surveying methods work?

Hi Jason.

All attempts to downplay a positive EA earnings report using unverifiable and incomplete data have failed.

Some people love other's misery, that's Suko. That's all I see in his posts. Just ignore.

Trolls that's what going on.

You need to learn how statistics works. If someone did a survey with a sample size of 113 thousand people it would actually be representative enough to allow for a margin of error +/- 5%. Now I haven't seen the survey in question but I know that surveying 113 thousand people is some serious work being put in.

That being said, where's the survey so I can read it?

Heyo! Thank you

I don't think we're ever going to get a final number, so it pretty speculative. Weird how the games industry is kinda reclusive with those types of figures, whereas the film industry is immediately forthcoming.