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Where can I go to find the current subscriber populations of each game? I used to have links to a few different sites, but they are dead now. :(
Any help? Seveca "Life is tough. It's even tougher if you're stupid." |
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Originally posted by Seveca
http://www.xfire.com/genre/mmo/massively_multiplayer_online/ gives an idea of what is being played in the west. on line and with a PC. It is that accurate you could trace weekends, new patch influences, vacations etc... As a reference : WOW has the equivalent of 5 M western subs and EVE is around 300K. Now just redo the ratio between the different mmorpg's in number of players (not playing time) and you have around a 5 to 10% accurate number of players playing the things in the west. A lot of people don't like the results so they will question the validity of these huge number of samples. All I can say is Xfire showed why the directors of both FunCom and Mythic lost their jobs .... months in advance and even stock market watchers follow the trends shown by Xfire. It is a useful tool to check upon "millions and millions" of "accounts" created even for FTP games. Hereby reducing the hype every new launch is given by its publishers. Xfire always showed the true number of players months in advance (and later to be published in some financial reports).
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Xfire seems to be quite accurate for now. Of course it's easy for developers to mess with those numbers, so they won't stay accurate. |
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Originally posted by Waterlily
That's true. A big publicity campaign on the Xfire website itself could mess up temporarely relationship between games. But in the past that tended to have only a temporarley influence and only a few %. But it is the best we have and a good tool to view trends.
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