How much revenue did WildStar make?

WildStar is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did WildStar sell?

Q: How many copies did WildStar sell?

213k to 346k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 213k–346k; from 5k reviews (Mostly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid WildStar and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including WildStar's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 701k–2.7M

best case 25.0M (Destiny 2)

Games like WildStar

A typical game among these

≈ 701k–2.7M copies

from ~23k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Destiny 2 at ≈ 19.1M–31.0M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (7 of 8) and MMORPG (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Looter Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2022, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M 3.3x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	76k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayMultiplayer
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EVE Online 2010	Est. copies ≈ 2.5M–4.1M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	40k reviews Mostly Positive	SpaceFree to Play
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