During the last week, some sales figures for the Civilization series, and Civ5 in particular, have come to light. During their PAX East Mega Panel, Firaxis revealed that the Civilization-series has sold 21 million copies throughout its history. It is unclear whether this number includes expansions or simply the base games. Meanwhile, an Ars Technica article has revealed that 5.84 million copies of Civ5 are owned on Steam, making it the 16th most-owned game on Steam. It is unlikely that this number includes the Gods & Kings and Brave New World expansions, as both these expansions are treated as DLC on the one Civ5 launcher. Further analysis is even more encouraging for Civ5, with many of the games higher on the list being owned by a high proportion of people who have not played at least six minutes. Whereas Portal, for example, is owned by 7.4 million people, of whom 5 million have actually played the game, 5.4 million of Civ5's 5.84 million owners have played the game. This makes Civ5 the 8th most played game on Steam by number of people. Civ5 climbs to 5th in total hours played, with 743 million. The mean number of hours per owner for Civ5 is 127.3 hours.
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