Around 15% of respondents said they had not yet purchased any game for the Steam Deck primarily.”
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18% said they purchased 10-50 games to play on the portable PC. People do buy games ‘just’ to play on Deck: “63% indicated they had bought at least one game to play specifically on the Steam Deck. But there’s still some super interesting conclusions in the survey. Of course, these are likely to be more hardcore fans - largely recruited via Reddit. The catchily named Overkill.wtf recently did ‘ a state of Steam Deck survey ’, quizzing over 1,200 early adopters of Valve’s portable Steam hardware, which may have shipped >1 million units already. So here it is - via top payments from each platform - for all Snail Games titles (of which ARK is 80-90%, depending on the year) for 2019 through mid-2022: We got some rare Steam DAU data, too : “In the six months ended June 30, 2022, ARK: Survival Evolved averaged a total of 395,150 daily active users (“DAUs”) on the Steam and Epic platforms, and we experienced a peak of approximately 755,000 DAUs in June 2020.” If we look at Steam CCU data and presume that Steam is 80-90% of the DAUs, perhaps ARK’s DAU is 7-8x its CCU? (We’ve seen ranges from 7x to 15x in limited exploration so far - the lower the multiplier, the ‘stickier’ the game.)įinally, it’s relatively rare to see revenue split per platform.
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(And there was a ‘get it for free on Steam’ deal in June 2022 too.)ĪRK is a pretty darn playable & replayable product: according to Steam data showcased in the S-1, it’s “been played for more than 2.8 billion hours, with an average playing time per user of more than 158 hours and with the top 20% of all players spending over 100 hours in the game.” Not bad!
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The game is happy to give away units to sell DLC: According to Snail, ARK has “76.5 million console and PC installs, which include 38.4 million installs from free promotions, through June 30, 2022.” According to the above graph from the S-1, around 17.7 million of those downloads were from an Epic Games Store ‘free week’ in 2020. (We’d guess that $ number is on the higher end compared to some indies - but great to have one out there!)ĪRK’s Xbox Game Pass deal extension paid out $2.5 million : there was an initial agreement from November 2018 to December 2021, and “the agreement was subsequently amended in June 2020 to extend the ARK 1 Game Pass perpetually effective January 1, 2022 and to put ARK 2 on Game Pass for three years upon release.” Looks like MS paid $2.5 million for the perpetual ARK 1 license, with $2.3 million for ARK 2 deferred for later. And here’s some of the most notable info we could find, deeper in the document, that we think you’ll dig:ĪRK’s PlayStation Plus deal was worth $3.5 million: This was a straightforward ‘PS+ Essentials’ deal signed in November 2021, and ARK became available for ‘free’ in March 2022 for all PS+ subscribers for 5 weeks. Anyhow, we’ve trawled Snail Games’ S-1 more deeply.
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