Yesterday afternoon, Lionhead updated their development blog with some remarkable numbers. The studio’s latest game, Fable II, has reached the 2.6 million sales mark, cementing it as a commercial success. A startling 66,000,000 Achievements have been earned since launch, revealing to the dev team the easiest and hardest rewards to obtain.
According to the posting, the introductory Achievement “The Whippersnapper” (collect five gold pieces during childhood) was obtained by 2,800,000 people. The multiplayer oriented “The Dollcatcher” (collect all the hero dolls) has only been obtained by 61, 037 players or a scant 1.9 percent of owners.
Considering the success of the game and Xbox Live Silver’s free access, I’m surprised more people haven’t uploaded their scores. Regardless, this is an interesting lens to view a game. Too bad Lionhead didn’t make a “get called Chicken Chaser four billion times” Achievement. That one would have been off the chain popular.
[via Edge]
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12:30 PM on 03.13.2009
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Sold: 2.6 million
People who updated their achievements online: 66 million?
Or is that 6.6 million, meaning that almost 2x more people bought the game used than new?
Also, I was extremely disappointed with the game. I still haven't finished it since I just got that bored with it.
From the blog: "more than 66,000,000 achievements unlocked to date!"
So, it's 66 million achievements have been unlocked by people that have purchased the game, not "66,000,00 of those people who purchased the game have uploaded their Achievement data on Xbox Live[.]" Whatever number "66,000,00" is supposed to be anyway.
2.6 million copies sold.
2.8 million whippersnapper achievements.
huh?
I was gonna note this as a benchmark for alts, but you only get an achievment once. So that extra 200,000: what's that? Rentals and Borrowers, I guess... but that's an interesting number!
Like, for me, I could say that I've had a million response to my efforts of finding a date online and that the mass majority of those have supported me in my quest to meet women in person. Now, what I wouldn't mention is that the majority of those requests mention meeting me in person so they can kick, slap, throw drinks in my face, etc. and not to actually go out with me on a date.
It could be people with multiple profiles on one console. I have 2 of my brothers with their own profiles on my Xbox and they each have a unique gamer score.