Neverwinter and Star Trek Online - Players and Numbers
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Embracer Group AB, a Swedish video game holding company, recently purchased the North American branch of Perfect World Entertainment. The buyout was accompanied by various investor presentations, and as a result, thanks to this MassivelyOP article that sifted through that stuff, we can see some real numbers behind PWE's properties that include Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, and as of recently, even the Torchlight series.
Here's an excerpt with the main numbers, but there's more in the article itself:
Neverwinter is PWE’s biggest game by a whole lot. Neverwinter is marked as having accrued $400M from 20M lifetime players, compared to $240M and 6M players from Star Trek Online and $200M and 4M players from Perfect World International (doesn’t this seem way too high?). The Torchlight franchise is bundled together to get to $64M revenue and 5M units sold. Given how poorly Torchlight III did, we presume most of that belongs to the earlier titles. Remnant from the Ashes isn’t an MMORPG, but it apparently racked up $70M in revenue with 3M sales – not shabby for a game that’s basically finished now.
