Why the hight difference in platinum rate between NA and EUR ver.?

[SeBEST2099]

Like NA. is at 3% with like 5 people and EUR is at 10% with an actual list of people who obtained the plat. why tho?

[DrBloodmoney]

Almost every game with an EU and a NA version seem to have higher completion on the EU one. Not always with quite as much of a delta as this one, but still significant enough.
 

I have no idea why exactly, but it seems to pretty much always be the case - at least in the games I’ve seen 

[SeBEST2099]

is just that to me is like the first time i've seen HERE that there are only 5 platinum achievers (weird) for the NA version? is the platinum bugged or something?

[KennethMcCormick]

Like @DrBloodmoney said, it’s basically the case for almost, if not all games on this site.

 

If you look at the other game from Creative Forge, Phantom Doctrine, it’s the same thing. I don’t know if it’s because it’s a European studio or what (I mean, CDPR are also Polish and pretty major).

 

But whatever the case, as far as Hard West is concerned, the sample is far too small (155 v. 143 owners on this site) to get to any statistical conclusion. My intuition would be that there’s no bug, though, the stats from PSN being 1 % for US and 2.3 for EU, which is actually pretty high. As to why...

[Darling Baphomet]

Perhaps the EU version hasn't gotten as many good sales as the US one? I know it's easy when games get steep discounts like this to just buy a game and never / barely play it.