Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ships 10 million
Bethesda has updated sales figures of The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, claiming it the fastest selling game in Steam history.
Three million more have flocked to the world of Skyrim over the past month. The game's launch was met with 7 million copies shipped. In the month since release, the game has won Game of the Year at the Spike TV Video Game Awards, and has shipped three million more copies.
Across all three platforms, the game has generated approximately $650 million in retail sales since release according to figures released by Bethesda. In addition, the PC version of Skyrim "outside all other PC games by a factor of over three to one in the month of its release."
Skyrim isn't just a retail success; it's dominating the digital charts as well. Valve's Jason Holtman claims that "Skyrim is the fast selling title in Steam's history," adding "we are delighted that Bethesda chose to use Steamworks to support Skyrim both at retail and digitally."
"We are most grateful to our fans for their support," ZeniMax CEO Robert Altman said in a press release. He then teased that "2012 will be another huge year for our fans, with the release of the Creation Kit, as well as exciting DLC which will add to the richness of this epic adventure."
The Creation Kit will take advantage of Steam Workshop in order to easily enable mod authors to upload their work directly to Steam, where it can be browsed, rated, and installed for free. DLC has yet to be announced, but all add-ons will be exclusive to Xbox 360 first.
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Bethesda has updated sales figures of The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, claiming it the fastest selling game in Steam history.-
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That doesn't really make a lot of sense... So, Microsoft paid to get early DLC, not exclusive? As if anyone is going to go "ohshi I bought the wrong version! better go buy a copy for XBox and play through the whole fucking game again!!"
The only thing I can come up with is that they decided to inflict "beta testing" the DLC on the XBox users, since it will probably break something.
I really liked Skyrim btw.
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70 hours in and no end in sight. I'm not sure how much of the main story I have still to go, but I've not touched TDB or Companions questlines for example, and still plenty of areas on the map I've not explored. I'm thinking I'd rush the main story through soon and leave some exploding and questing for a second playthrough on the hardest difficulty. I'm very much a stealth / dagger / bow kind of character now and I'm really wanting to try out a good old fashioned sword/shield guy. Can someone estimate how big a part of the main story I still have remaining:
I just defeated the main dragon for the first time on top of the mountain after getting the scroll. -
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took me 121 hours from start to finish doing all the side quests i could find.
despite the terrible amount of bugs that i have no idea how they couldn't notice, this is a very very good game, probably one of the best of this generations. sits right next to portal 2 and mass effect 1 and 2 on my shelf
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