WAR (Warhammer Online)

www.xfire.com/

It's currently at #5 on xfire. None of the other MMOs (other than WoW, of course) even come close. I think the next MMO is at rank 30 something. Now it's just a matter of continuing to work its way up over time.

God another Xfire thread -_-

I know what Xfire is, and I don't have it...but are these threads some kind of code you give to another or something? 

How can something only a portion of the playerbase have realistically gauge a game's popularity? Seriously...

Here we go again!

I'm going to sit this one out.

Originally posted by whisperwynd

I know what Xfire is, and I don't have it...but are these threads some kind of code you give to another or something? 

How can something only a portion of the playerbase have realistically gauge a game's popularity? Seriously...

People don't realize that gathering data by using an relatively unknown and invasive program that is more likely to be used by a certain type of gamer is not a scientific sample.

Originally posted by Satarious

www.xfire.com/

It's currently at #5 on xfire. None of the other MMOs (other than WoW, of course) even come close. I think the next MMO is at rank 30 something. Now it's just a matter of continuing to work its way up over time.

Working it's way UP ?.... hehe.. I think you're dreaming a bit :)

Originally posted by sgel

Originally posted by Satarious

www.xfire.com/

It's currently at #5 on xfire. None of the other MMOs (other than WoW, of course) even come close. I think the next MMO is at rank 30 something. Now it's just a matter of continuing to work its way up over time.

 

Working it's way UP ?.... hehe.. I think you're dreaming a bit :)

Well no he is not, if you look at the graph it is rapidly increasing.  Whether xfire means anything or not is something else.  But he isn't dreaming about it working its way up xfire.

Whereas WoW is basically a sine wave.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/videogames/ref=pd_dp_ts_vg_1

ya, I have to say. I hate xfire.

Originally posted by whisperwynd

I know what Xfire is, and I don't have it...but are these threads some kind of code you give to another or something? 

How can something only a portion of the playerbase have realistically gauge a game's popularity? Seriously...

In the same way that opinion polls don't have to interview the entire population to get a fairly accurate snapshot of what they think or intend to do.   X-Fire is used by a huge number of the online  gameplaying public and usage patterns can give a good indication of  what games are currently popular,

However, games tend to score highly in the first month of release, AoC was right at the top a few months ago but has slipped away now , so I'd agree, you can't really use it to make long term projections.