Originally posted by TalRasha

These numbers do indeed look a bit fishy. But it's not surprising that it's listed at #1. This DF forum has always been very popular/active.

Yeah, it's been popular... but not #1 popular for quite some time now.

As I said in the previous post, it is usually in the second tier of MMOs games when it comes to it's popularity.  Back when DarkFall was at it's highest level of popularity (i.e. 50-100 new posts every day) it still only occasionally cracked #1.

Now there are only a handful of new posts and it's more than twice as popular as the next closest?

It would appear that the Admin here at MMORPG.COM are indeed perplexed by it as well since they responded in this thread.  I'm sure they will get to the bottom of it eventually.

Hopefully it will be something they feel can be shared with the community, as I for one would be interested in knowing the cause. 

Originally posted by DarthRaiden

There is some irony that amuses me if  posts being added to a forum claiming it has to be something "fishy" about activity in that forum.

Yup.

You do realize though that once you visit the forum that your "hit" no longer counts... right?

Sure, the added posts will put this thread up in the recent threads frame.   But, as I said, that hasn't changed in 6 months.  I've been doing the same thing since DarkFall was in Beta.  Your welcome. 

Suddenly (last week or so), DarkFall is getting 5-10 times as many hits as it was previously.  Surely, even you can admit Darth that does seem a bit odd.

It's not like MMORPG.COM is considered the bastion of DarkFall from it's supporters... even from your own mouth... Darth.

This considerable uptick MIGHT be real if the "expansion" had just been just been released.  On the contrary, they just announced a 2 week (or longer) delay.  That usually doesn't spell a 5-10 times increase. 

Edit: On the plus side, I am glad to see that irony at least amuses you Darth.  There is still hope afterall. 

Maybe it's because for the past 3 hours this forum has had 3 topics in most talked about.

Originally posted by daywalker27

Maybe it's because for the past 3 hours this forum has had 3 topics in most talked about.

It was at 7,911 @ 7: 47 CDT

It is now at 9,933  @ 8:32 CDT

So in less than 45 minutes it's had another 2k+ unique hits?  Heh... I think that pretty well cinches it. 

Originally posted by Admin

We base this off unique IPs to hit a games "section" on the site.  This could be faked I suppose if someone setup a bot behind a proxy server to hit our site with hits from a pile of fake IP addresses.

I will bring this up amongst the team - perhaps we could come up with a more effective way to determine which games are popular at the moment (like only counting logged in users,etc).

All this being said, this could very well be legit as well, for example, if we have a Darkfall article that is linked up heavily across the web then every hit to that article would boost the popularity for the game, regardless of forum postings, etc.

 

Magic word there IF!!!!

Originally posted by xzyax

Originally posted by daywalker27

Maybe it's because for the past 3 hours this forum has had 3 topics in most talked about.

 

It was at 7,911 @ 7: 47 CDT

It is now at 9,933  @ 8:32 CDT

 

So in less than 45 minutes it's had another 2k+ unique hits?  Heh... I think that pretty well cinches it. 

Up to 17K unique hits now.  Yeah...ocean front property in Arizona anyone?

also this

http://twitter.com/darkfall_mmorpg

 Darkfall has almost 17K hits at nearly 8AM EST. Wtf? Aion, the number 2 place has about 2k. DARKFALL HAS 17K HITS. That's weird.

Originally posted by Vexe

 Darkfall has almost 17K hits at nearly 8AM EST. Wtf? Aion, the number 2 place has about 2k. DARKFALL HAS 17K HITS. That's weird.

Darkfall belongs to be on top, nothing wrong with it.

Originally posted by DarthRaiden

Originally posted by Vexe

 Darkfall has almost 17K hits at nearly 8AM EST. Wtf? Aion, the number 2 place has about 2k. DARKFALL HAS 17K HITS. That's weird.

 

Darkfall belongs to be on top, nothing wrong with it.

It indeed does. But not exactly the "top position" you had in mind.

Really, people must be completely brainwashed to think this kind of activity is normal.

Originally posted by StrixMaxima

Originally posted by DarthRaiden

Originally posted by Vexe

 Darkfall has almost 17K hits at nearly 8AM EST. Wtf? Aion, the number 2 place has about 2k. DARKFALL HAS 17K HITS. That's weird.

 

Darkfall belongs to be on top, nothing wrong with it.

 

It indeed does. But not exactly the "top position" you had in mind.

Really, people must be completely brainwashed to think this kind of activity is normal.

Oh come on StrixMaxima, there is nothing abnormal about Darkfall having 20,559 UNIQUE hits at 11 a.m. CST on a weekday. I mean really, that only averages out to 1,869 UNIQUE hits an hour since the counter reset.

And 195,748 UNIQUE hits each and every hour for the last 155 hours or so is well within the realm of possibilities.

But I do expect the hits to taper off as soon as the "expansion" is released, or when Darkfall has the top spot for the preceding year in unique hits. Whichever comes first.

Just because Darkfall hadn't even cracked the top 10 since shortly after launch up until a week or so ago is just a testament to the hard work that Aventurine has put into the game, and people are finally realizing Darkfall for the gem it really is. The diamond in the rough has finally became a treasure.

Just because Aion only has 3,330 UNIQUE hits during the same 11 hour time frame means absolutely nothing.

Originally posted by Respit

Originally posted by StrixMaxima

Originally posted by DarthRaiden

Originally posted by Vexe

 Darkfall has almost 17K hits at nearly 8AM EST. Wtf? Aion, the number 2 place has about 2k. DARKFALL HAS 17K HITS. That's weird.

 

Darkfall belongs to be on top, nothing wrong with it.

 

It indeed does. But not exactly the "top position" you had in mind.

Really, people must be completely brainwashed to think this kind of activity is normal.

 

Oh come on StrixMaxima, there is nothing abnormal about Darkfall having 20,559 UNIQUE hits at 11 a.m. CST on a weekday. I mean really, that only averages out to 1,869 UNIQUE hits an hour since it the counter reset.

And 195,748 UNIQUE hits each and every hour for the last 155 hours or so is well within the realm of possibilities.

But I do expect the hits to taper off as soon as the "expansion" is released, or when Darkfall has the top spot for the preceding year in unique hits. Whichever comes first.

Just because Darkfall hadn't even cracked the top 10 since shortly after launch up until a week or so ago is just a testament to the hard work that Aventurine has put into the game, and people are finally realizing Darkfall for the gem it really is. The diamond in the rough has finally became a treasure.

 

Just because Aion only has 3,330 UNIQUE hits during the same 11 hour time frame means absolutely nothing.

Well it's been solved...but it wasn't because it's soooooooo popular. Not that it shouldn't be. But almost 2k hits an hour in a time span which no one else is awake with most (even the controvertial ones) games toping at around 500 or less is kind of odd. But again, we know why now...so...there...I guess...

No one talks about a train that arrives on time and without incident just the wrecks......

Originally posted by jaxsundane

No one talks about a train that arrives on time and without incident just the wrecks......

So you want us to make threads when darkfall makes average unique hit rates, then?

hmmmmm bit.ly/4nukKZ

Originally posted by Admin

We base this off unique IPs to hit a games "section" on the site.  This could be faked I suppose if someone setup a bot behind a proxy server to hit our site with hits from a pile of fake IP addresses.

I will bring this up amongst the team - perhaps we could come up with a more effective way to determine which games are popular at the moment (like only counting logged in users,etc).

All this being said, this could very well be legit as well, for example, if we have a Darkfall article that is linked up heavily across the web then every hit to that article would boost the popularity for the game, regardless of forum postings, etc.

 

If game admins were as active in their forums as you admins are in mmorpg forums, I might play their games longer.