The pie chart is quite scary. Each continent hold around 20~30% of the paying customers. If certain continents hold majority of the pie, it’s a lot easier to decide which one would bring more money via local server.
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As a SEA player, I know this ‘free’ game would attract a lot of players. This doesn’t translate to a paying nor staying customers, however.
Let’s do some science/math
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Looking from the pie graph and SteamDB, there are 150k owner. Let’s be lazily optimistic and say they all bought tier 3 early access.
- 30% are NA = 45k | $10 * 45k = $450k
- 26% are LA = 39k | ~$6 * 39k = $234k
- 16% are SEA = 24k| ~$6 * 24k = $144k
- 12% are RU = 18k | ~$4 * 18k = $72k
- 12% are EU = 18k | ~$8 * 18k = $144k
The prices are lazily converted, but I guess it gives some idea and shows which regions IMC is more likely to open - or rather, not open. I wish technology can help us here.
What likely to happen is IMC wait for 2+ months, see how the numbers above change, then decide on next local server. My bet is on EU.