By the way, after 3 weeks, the spamming is happening again.  DF had 30,000 hits yesterday, and has over 24,000 hits so far today (so it's on pace for ~50,000 today).

As I said, it happens to other games as well, but with Darkfall, it happens frequently.

Really makes you wonder if it's Aventurine botting those hits or a 3rd party.

Originally posted by MadnessRealm

Really makes you wonder if it's Aventurine botting those hits or a 3rd party.

Only the admins here would be able to tell, but it's clearly a false number.  Over 25,000 hits for a game with such little activity is obviously manufactured.

By comparison, SWTOR is the next highest at 5,000.  SWTOR is one of the most hyped game currently in the world.  Its release date was announced yesterday, it's had a number of feature and news articles about it on this site recently, and its forums activity has active threads going to the second page.  Yet, Darkfall supposedly has 5 times the number of unique hits?

Granted, it seems a pretty silly thing to do, but there plenty of people that exaggerate the importance of forum ratings, numbers, and stats.  This seems to be a pretty clear-cut case - someone is manipulating the number.

Originally posted by Zooce

I was in the process of creating a thread in the pub and saw this one when I went to refresh the counter.  Figure I'll just use this one instead.

I don't get it.  Topics in the Darkfall forum are barely active, the general feeling surrounding the game is dissapointment and the face of the Dev team is associated with deception. Yet, for the past month Darkfall has produced 2x more hits than any other game. 

I was thinking it might be due to asian interest or DF2.0 curiosity.  But hit spam seems more likely. 

This is not the first time this has happened on this site, it's happened a few times way before the Asian interest was announced.

Originally posted by IAmMMO

Originally posted by Zooce

I was in the process of creating a thread in the pub and saw this one when I went to refresh the counter.  Figure I'll just use this one instead.

I don't get it.  Topics in the Darkfall forum are barely active, the general feeling surrounding the game is dissapointment and the face of the Dev team is associated with deception. Yet, for the past month Darkfall has produced 2x more hits than any other game. 

I was thinking it might be due to asian interest or DF2.0 curiosity.  But hit spam seems more likely. 

This is not the first time this has happened on this site, it's happened a few times way before the Asian interest was announced.

To begin with, I don't think Asia would use MMORPG.com as reference, not because MMORPG.com is bad, but because MMORPG.com doesn't cover MMOs in Asia (only when they hit the north american/european market).

I'm amazed that people can think that these could be legit numbers

Covert viral marketing is a terrible thing isn't it.

StarVault and Mortal Online are a prime example of this too. A terrible game kept barely alive by a covert viral marketing scheme, as plainly admitted by the CEO in his financial reports. It too gets high hit rates on this site, yet has barely a couple of hundred people playing. You have to wonder why.

Perhaps the OP should investigate this too?

How does a hit get counted ?

I would say maybe it's the recent success of Skyrim. I know watching some Skyrim gameplay I had to check Darkfall out again.. only to be sadly disappointed of course.

I bet its Asian IP's.  Specifically China.  I know the Chineese loved Shadowbane and games like it (super hardcore open world open loot).  Knowing the developers have been in talks with Asian developers the past few months that would spike the intrest in the game WAY up.  Over there 50k players is a drop in the bucket.  Also 1000 CN players vs 30 NA players is not fun...

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