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Szark News Manager Joined: 5/02/06 Posts: 4423	9/12/07 12:09:44 PM#1 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Xfire has released their latest gaming statistics from their online gaming community, including a list of the top 10 MMOs. World of Warcraft claims the number one position, but the rest of the top ten still holds a few surprises. Xfire - 8 million strong online gaming community - released today a new installment of online game play statistics - "Xstatics." The latest update adds stats from April 2007 through August 2007, along with several brand new Bonus Stats. All told, Xfire presents a total of 21 months of data, summarizing more than 120,000 man-years of game play. The latest release of "Xstatics" is available now and can be viewed at www.xfire.com/xstatics "Xfire is continuing to provide the video game industry with up to date, authentic online game play statistics across more than 900 PC games," said Frederic Descamps, senior director of marketing for Xfire. "Xfire is the only company that can compile actual online game play data from a large sample size of more than 8 million gamers and so many games." Below is just a sample of the fascinating findings from the latest "Xstatics" report: One of the bonus stats found in the latest iteration of "Xstatics" focuses on the game play data for the top 5 FPS games over the past year, including the rise of Call of Duty 2, which over the year has experienced a 95% increase in game play activity on Xfire Free-to-play (F2P) Korean games, such as Silkroad Online and War Rock, hold six of the top 20 game rankings as well as five of the top ten MMORPGS and two of the top ten FPS games A new feature has been added to the newest "Xstatics" showing how games have changed rank from the previous month in the different genres In the RTS genre Xfire's support of the World in Conflict beta revealed anticipation for the title as it leapt straight into position three of all RTS games, just barely missing the number two spot Get all the details here.
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skywisenight MMORPG.COM Staff Joined: 10/22/04 Posts: 386	9/12/07 12:23:52 PM#2 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Good thing Solitaire is still in the stats. I think I'd loose all hope for humanity otherwise.... now back to my TPS reports.
Airspell Novice Member Joined: 3/05/07 Posts: 1400	9/12/07 12:33:23 PM#3 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Fly for Fun pretty much on the same level as EvE...finally a statistic I can agree with :P
psyconius Novice Member Joined: 1/28/04 Posts: 275 Cthulhu tells me I''m not crazy.. (and he hates the double apostrophe bug)	9/12/07 12:54:35 PM#4 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) I am an XFire stat whore and wish they would log hours on betas a lot sooner than they have been. It could be a useful tool to show your beta experience to dev teams, or just to flaunt it anyway =P -- psyconius Cthulhu Gothika Studios
METALDRAG0N Novice Member Joined: 7/11/07 Posts: 1693 I really like my Avatar Picture :)	9/12/07 1:03:35 PM#5 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Its a shame its not an accurate statistic tho as not everyone uses Xfire "Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god." -- Jean Rostand
KnivesOnly Novice Member Joined: 12/18/06 Posts: 412	9/12/07 1:15:12 PM#6 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) It backs up what SOE are saying how the F2P model is really the most popular.
soulwynd Hard Core Member Joined: 10/26/05 Posts: 45	9/12/07 1:35:42 PM#7 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Considering the games listed there, I think there might be something seriously wrong with people who use xfire.
thornton Hard Core Member Joined: 9/18/06 Posts: 60	9/13/07 7:16:29 AM#8 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by METALDRAG0N Its a shame its not an accurate statistic tho as not everyone uses Xfire That is exactly what I was thinking. It seems this is for people that need something to stroke their e-ego's. I have never used xfire in over 12 years of gaming and never will.
Kyleran Elite Member Joined: 9/13/06 Posts: 14596 A simple truth-"What people want and what is good for an mmo is not always the same thing"-mrw0lf	9/13/07 7:21:09 AM#9 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by soulwynd Considering the games listed there, I think there might be something seriously wrong with people who use xfire. Agreed...just as there is a certain "type" of person who will visit/post on a gaming forum...there's a certain type of player who will bother with Crossfire..... neither is representative of a decent cross-mix of the entire gaming population so the results tend to be a distorted in many ways. "Just because you aren't paying doesn't mean it's not PTW." - Amaranthar Bitter Vet ™ since 2006 "This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Ralsar Novice Member Joined: 8/02/03 Posts: 305	9/13/07 7:53:12 AM#10 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Most F2P games have afk shops which skew the playing time for those games. Sure I may have put in 10 hours with my afk shop open for buisness but I wasn't actually playing.
Ozmodan Hard Core Member Joined: 2/27/07 Posts: 5056	9/13/07 9:36:29 AM#11 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Why would anyone in their right mind allow this pos to operate on their computer? I don't see one positive thing from this except invasion of privacy.
kkat69 Novice Member Joined: 6/13/06 Posts: 22	9/13/07 9:45:53 AM#12 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) The biggest problem with xFire stats. They don't determine if your ACTUALLY playing! Think about it, a room full of 30 gold farmers all have xFire, they're all logged into WoW and BLAM there goes the statistics. or for that matter, log into any game, get some sort of anti idle script and viola, your hours are logged. Invalid statistic.
midwestnets Novice Member Joined: 5/25/07 Posts: 81	9/13/07 10:58:26 AM#13 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by kkat69 The biggest problem with xFire stats. They don't determine if your ACTUALLY playing! Think about it, a room full of 30 gold farmers all have xFire, they're all logged into WoW and BLAM there goes the statistics. or for that matter, log into any game, get some sort of anti idle script and viola, your hours are logged. Invalid statistic. True, but look at the piecharts again. That kind of disparity can not be explained away by gold farmers.