Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Comparison

In my last posting you were able to see how quickly the Disturbing Daughter was purchased from the Store in large part because there were two of them available for purchase at the same time. I wondered if this had happened before, and I found out that it had. Tangledcat mentioned in a Forum post that the Simosaur also had two concurrent store appearances during the first run. So I thought that it would be interesting to see what that looked like.

Looks like there were 139 purchased in the first minute.
After two minutes it started to slow down and 204 items had been purchased.

This was released about 4 months and two weeks before the Disturbing Daughter and it looks like the Daughter went about twice as fast and lasted a bit longer as well. It will be interesting to see how quickly things keep going in the future...

Friday, October 18, 2013

This was disturbing...

Holy cow. That's what I have to say after watching the purchase frenzy of the Disturbing Daughter release today.

The Dev's seemed to wait until I was in the shower to release this one, but I was lucky enough to see the text come in and grab my phone to make the purchase (a man's gotta do...). I was surprised when I went to the Ghosts and Ghouls Store and saw that there were two of the new items in there at the same time (I wonder if this has ever happened before). I got lucky, like many others, to manage to get two DD's. But I was surprised, as many others were probably as well, when they appeared in the store again a short while later that they were already into the high 200's (dang that was fast). So I figured I had to see what this looked like:

This may look like other graphs that I have put up, however, the time duration is MUCH shorter than any other graph. Here's how the numbers broke down:

It took 33 seconds to have all SD and DD's purchased.
The first 200 were gone in 51 seconds.
After 1 minute 220 of them had been purchased.
Within 2 minutes 351 of them had been purchased, when it finally started slowing down.
Then there was another quick buying from numbers 385-450 that took about another minute.

This was definitely the quickest I have ever seen items purchased, and many others have said the same thing in the Forums. However, in another year (with many more players) this may not seem so quick. We'll just have to wait and see...