Steam

[arijitsinha]

At first I thought it would be impossible for a game to have more owners in India than USA since US has huge no. of Steam users compared to India. For every copy bought by an Indian there would be at-least 10 American idiots that would buy it without the intention of ever playing it. After all games like Goat Simulator can become popular. Even games like 'Unrest' that was made by an Indian indie team has more US owners than Indian. I believed Americans would buy just about anything. But not too surprisingly such a game exists. It is also one of the things I hate about India so much. One can finally say Americans don't buy just about anything. They avoid boring stuff like this:

Spoiler

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Nice find I guess that is because very few knows what is a cricket in USA, and this game have not went on sale so far. So only cricket enthusiast will buy it. And this game was on sale on Flipkart like 500-600 bucks with a free controller, that boosted the sale too.

 

[Desmond]

There are even more buyers in Australia. But then again, it's Australia's national sport.

 

[chimera201]

There are even more buyers in Australia. But then again, it's Australia's national sport.

If you count the number of pirated copies India will be #1

 

[aniketdawn.89]

If you count the number of pirated copies India will be #1

Piracy is still more in other 3rd world countries compared to India my friend. That is one of the reasons why games are so cheap in the CIS region - even cheaper than games with regional pricing for IN.

 

[chimera201]

Piracy is still more in other 3rd world countries compared to India my friend. That is one of the reasons why games are so cheap in the CIS region - even cheaper than games with regional pricing for IN.

I know. Australia and UK aren't third world countries.

 

[tkin]

The biggest misconception about piracy is that every pirated copy equals to a lost sale. People would not download 'XXX Simulator' if they had to pay for it, so it wouldn't have generated any money for the developer either way.

Taking this into account piracy level in India should not be that high, I know lots of friend who would download games like ACU on their i3, gt610m, 2GB laptops and would not get the chance to play. This is not piracy.

 

[chimera201]

The biggest misconception about piracy is that every pirated copy equals to a lost sale. People would not download 'XXX Simulator' if they had to pay for it, so it wouldn't have generated any money for the developer either way.

Taking this into account piracy level in India should not be that high, I know lots of friend who would download games like ACU on their i3, gt610m, 2GB laptops and would not get the chance to play. This is not piracy.

We are talking about Don Bradman Cricket 14 that can run on integrated graphics and not AC:U that doesn't even run on mid range gaming rigs properly Ignoring my original post completely.

 

[Cyberghost]

At first I thought it would be impossible for a game to have more owners in India than USA since US has huge no. of Steam users compared to India. For every copy bought by an Indian there would be at-least 10 American idiots that would buy it without the intention of ever playing it. After all games like Goat Simulator can become popular. Even games like 'Unrest' that was made by an Indian indie team has more US owners than Indian. I believed Americans would buy just about anything. But not too surprisingly such a game exists. It is also one of the things I hate about India so much. One can finally say Americans don't buy just about anything. They avoid boring stuff like this:

Spoiler

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Flipkart ₹199 sale

 

[Desmond]

Piracy is still more in other 3rd world countries compared to India my friend. That is one of the reasons why games are so cheap in the CIS region - even cheaper than games with regional pricing for IN.

But CIS countries are also larger markets. That is why they still sell games over there even if they have to sell cheap. India's market is not as large.

 

[aniketdawn.89]

But CIS countries are also larger markets. That is why they still sell games over there even if they have to sell cheap. India's market is not as large.

IMHO still has more potential. It's just how the mentality of the people has grown over the years. You tell me if there were a way, that games were placed as cheap as RU/CIS and steam provided India specific payment options, college kids wouldn't buy games? I know I would have. They just don't want to invest here. And hence the same mentality continues in the majority of the Indian market.

 

[thetechfreak]

^^ I'm a college kid and I buy games on Steam once a while. Have racked up quite a few over the past years

 

[Desmond]

Dude, see how many people play Dota 2 in CIS countries: Player Activity

Compare that to India.

If there aren't enough players here for a F2P game, how can there be enough players for paid games?

 

[aniketdawn.89]

Dude, see how many people play Dota 2 in CIS countries: Player Activity

Compare that to India.

If there aren't enough players here for a F2P game, how can there be enough players for paid games?

Many just play SP games not giving a shite about multiplayer. And I speak from experience. A batch of 500 friends who have played every game on pc till date. And this is only my friend circle

 

[thetechfreak]

^^ Not everyone likes MMO you know. Free != game will go very famous. Dota 2 was the first game of its type for me. I used to play stuff like CSGO, Dirt 3 etc. Games like GTA V seem to have quite a few players on Steam. I think 30% people in my friend list have it on Steam(Indian players i.e). Even Witcher 3 has around 5 players in my list.

 

[aniketdawn.89]

^^ Not everyone likes MMO you know. Free != game will go very famous. Dota 2 was the first game of its type for me. I used to play stuff like CSGO, Dirt 3 etc. Games like GTA V seem to have quite a few players on Steam. I think 30% people in my friend list have it on Steam(Indian players i.e). Even Witcher 3 has around 5 players in my list.

Exactly my point. Even though steam had free games and I had a pc back in 2009, I only started playing on steam in 2014 after joining a job.

And that was the story with most of my school and college friends. Who can afford a newly release AC1 on pc back then?

 

[thetechfreak]

One last thing, the main reason because why Dota 2 is so famous is because there were already lots of Garena players. The original game itself was famous & hence people jumped. I started playing it around the time of the Ti 4 hype.

Yes market here is less but it's definitely rising every year. More and more people making steam accounts for games. Even if they don't make accounts the general awareness is growing.

 

[chimera201]

One thing that you people need to compare is that exactly how many Indians have legit games and what is the population of India. India is the second highest populated country and still India does not have enough Steam accounts (forget legit games) to even appear on the charts. Your friends circle are obviously going to consist of people like yourself. Try to look at the rest of the people which is an enormous population.

 

[thetechfreak]

^^ Well any guy I know who plays video games now are in a category below:

1. Steam & other online official services: Self explanatory really, they buy and play legit games on Steam/other platforms or DRM free GOG.

2. Xbox Live/PSN: Console gamers. They subscribe to Ps+ and play or buy directly on console marketplace

3. Mobile "gamers": Clash of Clans & similar games directly from Play Store or App store.


Original games cost very low now. CSGO was going for 299INR earlier today in Amazon freedom sale. The only pirates etc I see are either a) young kids who don't know difference b/w original b) People from really backward places where internet connectivity too is hard.

The number of "blatant" pirates are decreasing IMHO. Just about every average gamer plays on Steam. Piracy is no longer what is was say 8 - 10 years back. Yes there are quite a few guys who still say "LOL YOU BUY A GAME HAHAHA" but they're a decreasing and starting to disappear.

 

[chimera201]

Okay I have a friend that owned a PS3 from its release in India. He bought all legit PS3 games. But pirated multi-platform titles on PC. When I asked him if you can buy 2K INR PS3 games why don't you buy 999 INR PC games. He replied: "I compensate the cost of PS3 games by pirating on PC"

 

[tkin]

IMHO still has more potential. It's just how the mentality of the people has grown over the years. You tell me if there were a way, that games were placed as cheap as RU/CIS and steam provided India specific payment options, college kids wouldn't buy games? I know I would have. They just don't want to invest here. And hence the same mentality continues in the majority of the Indian market.

No, I get ridiculed by people for buying Android apps, IN MY OFFICE. People look at me as if I am literally throwing money in the wind when I mention that I have purchased Poweramp, or have purchased a wonderful live wallpaper called Minima, or have purchased a number of games like Vector. All these cost less than a meal for one at kfc, or cost less than a movie ticket, but they look at me as if I am some animal.

Imagine what would happen to college students.