The earthquake disaster that took place on February 6 and affected 10 provinces intensively caused the death of tens of thousands of people, injured hundreds of thousands of people and left thousands of families homeless.
After the earthquake, material damages occurred in many sectors. Compared to January of 2023 in game purchases 10 per cent While there was a decrease, an increase of 11 percent was observed compared to December of 2022. Game purchases, which started to increase with 2022, continued to increase in January of 2023, while in February of 2023. -due to earthquake disaster- There was a decrease in purchases.
PC game sales fell sharply in February
While most of the total game purchases were in the mobile category, PC and console game purchases decreased compared to other months.
The game that players showed the most interest in February Valorant it happened. Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0, which has the title of the game with the fastest rise in the most played games in our country, followed Valorant, and Warzone 2.0 managed to take the second place in February.
Five of the 10 games in the list of most played games were from the mobile category.
| Platform | December 2022 | January 2023 | February 2023 |
| PC | 25% | 26% | 22% |
| Console | 20% | 17% | 18% |
| mobile | 55% | 57% | 60% |
Top 10 in-game sales
- Valorant
- Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0
- PUBG Mobile
- Garena Free Fire
- Call of Duty Mobile
- League of Legends
- Arena of Valor
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
- roblox
- World of Warcraft
In game shopping, the most shopping was done in Istanbul in February. Istanbul was followed by Antalya, Ankara, Bursa and Izmir. Antalya was the province with the biggest increase in game shopping in 2023.
In October, a significant portion of the total game purchases were made by players between the ages of 21-30.