Kubi – a runaway hit in “the land of the 7 seas”
January 31st, 2006Judging by downloads of Kubi demo we are sailing straight towards sunny days, aint that right Captain? ….. “Well… let me see, boy.”
Downloads of Kubi for Windows per month
| month | downloads | |
| Nov 2005 | 126 |
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| Dec 2005 | 694 |
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| Jan 2006 | 5465 |
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This week few things finaly clicked in my brain… I was noticing some strange number at logs for kubi download (win) hits… but I thougth it was mistake and didn’t bother much. Kubi for Windows was finally getting some buy-page views (as I saw on plimus monitor) too, but in 95% the currency was PLN and CNY. I didn’t think of it much but my brain concluded by itself… ok, game is getting popular in Polland and Canada. Referrers showed me allmost the same number of hits from some pirate pages as I got downloads…..
Then one day I was looking at Plimus monitor… thinking something like ( I just will citate my thougths) … “What the hell is wrong with you canadians.. I get 50 buy-now pageviews a day and noone buys it in whole week!?!…… And what is that Y doing in that CNY…. don’t they have canadian dollars or something…………………Jackie Chan is cool…. uh, I have to stop thinking about him……….Jackie Chan……. China Yen…… Uh……….this is China?!”
So I realized 95% of my buy-now (for windows) version are from Polland and China. And coincidence coincidence… those pirate websites that I get tons of referers from are Polland and China too. And Kubi was downloaded 10 times more this month than the last – and I didn’t get even 1 sale more.
March 4th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
[...] You can see how many downloads can pirate users produce here and number continued to february (5714 downloads) and still not even 1 sale more than other months with 10x less downloads. On the other hand downloads do me no harm other than 6GB of transfers which is still survivable. But if one has a much more popular and bigger game this can be very expensive joke. It happened to Motorama which recieved 60GB/day transfer after it got cracked. [...]