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

Again, Aion has 2k.

That is 15K LESS THAN DARKFALL.

That's weird.

Not that it matters anyway, just interested to see why this is happening. :P

It's just merely word of mouth. Don't fret.

Well, that wouldn't be the first time DFO is involved in shady stuff. It is obvious manipulation, or maybe Tasos is giving away free moussakas to people who access the forums in Greece.

When the game is lacking, you gotta find some other ways to feed the monkey. And I must admit AV is pretty good at that.

Originally posted by wh0astar

It's just merely word of mouth. Don't fret.

Meh someone is jiggering the results. It makes little difference most people who wanted to play Darkfall decided long ago.

Originally posted by StrixMaxima

Well, that wouldn't be the first time DFO is involved in shady stuff. It is obvious manipulation, or maybe Tasos is giving away free moussakas to people who access the forums in Greece.

When the game is lacking, you gotta find some other ways to feed the monkey. And I must admit AV is pretty good at that.

After all the experience they have with being DDOS attacked. I guess they found a way to generate a lot of hits for their game on this site lol.

But seriously. If you are a bit of a tech guy, it's not hard to create or even download some little program that hits a sertain section of a website over and over and over again to generate hits.

We had that kind of programs in my previous job to run performance tests against our websites and web applications.

You can completely trottle and manipulate these performance programs to generate a sertain amount of hits, with random time intervals. All that kind of stuff.

Cheers

Originally posted by Guillermo197

Originally posted by StrixMaxima

Well, that wouldn't be the first time DFO is involved in shady stuff. It is obvious manipulation, or maybe Tasos is giving away free moussakas to people who access the forums in Greece.

When the game is lacking, you gotta find some other ways to feed the monkey. And I must admit AV is pretty good at that.

 

After all the experience they have with being DDOS attacked. I guess they found a way to generate a lot of hits for their game on this site.

And seriously. If you are a bit of a tech guy, it's not hard to create or even download some little program that hits a sertain section of a website over and over and over again to generate hits.

We had that kind of programs in my previous job to run performance tests against our websites and web applications.

You can completely trottle and manipulate these performance programs to generate a sertain amount of hits, with random time intervals. All that kind of stuff.

Cheers

Oh yes, I completely agree. I was being a little sarcastic to lighten up things a bit. I am just amazed as to the reasoning behind it. But desperate times call for desperate measures.

I guess a new conspiracy theory is born.

Originally posted by StrixMaxima

Originally posted by Guillermo197

Originally posted by StrixMaxima

Well, that wouldn't be the first time DFO is involved in shady stuff. It is obvious manipulation, or maybe Tasos is giving away free moussakas to people who access the forums in Greece.

When the game is lacking, you gotta find some other ways to feed the monkey. And I must admit AV is pretty good at that.

 

After all the experience they have with being DDOS attacked. I guess they found a way to generate a lot of hits for their game on this site.

And seriously. If you are a bit of a tech guy, it's not hard to create or even download some little program that hits a sertain section of a website over and over and over again to generate hits.

We had that kind of programs in my previous job to run performance tests against our websites and web applications.

You can completely trottle and manipulate these performance programs to generate a sertain amount of hits, with random time intervals. All that kind of stuff.

Cheers

 

Oh yes, I completely agree. I was being a little sarcastic to lighten up things a bit. I am just amazed as to the reasoning behind it. But desperate times call for desperate measures.

Since when has Aventurine not been desperate? They always have and always will. Up till the moment they pull the plug and sail away in their little rowboat with the little cash they have left.

So this doesn't suprise me one single bit.

Originally posted by DarthRaiden

I guess a new conspiracy theory is born.

Yes. I hear the new buzz on the streets is calling patches expansions. Anyway, I just made my tinfoil hat, and a double-layered one, at that.

It is weird!

The same thing happend to the movie "The Dark Knight". It was accused of having used forbidden and secret ways to make people go and see it. Lots of consiracy there to.

Critics the the movie shouted "its just a freaking Batman movie!, no way it can make 900 million dollars without cheating".

Originally posted by StrixMaxima

Originally posted by DarthRaiden

I guess a new conspiracy theory is born.

 

Yes. I hear the new buzz on the streets is calling patches expansions. Anyway, I just made my tinfoil hat, and a double-layered one, at that.

Just let him. We all know DarthRaiden by now. Don't we.

Every sane person knows that Darkfall has been death in the water and has gotten pretty much ZERO attention lately.

Every sane person knows that AION has been in the spotlights the last month.

And then seeing Darkfall generating that many hits. Yeah right.

Just some desperate fanbois or even Tasos himself who figured out how to run a Website Performance Tool and run it against the DF section of this website.

Originally posted by Vexe

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

Again, Aion has 2k.

That is 15K LESS THAN DARKFALL.

That's weird.

Not that it matters anyway, just interested to see why this is happening. :P

it says :

"* Results based on unique hits over previous 24 hours"

so time of day doesn't play much role.

I think it makes perfect sense.  Since more and more people are starting to despise WoW it's logical that these people would look for a game that is its total opposite.

Originally posted by StrixMaxima

Originally posted by DarthRaiden

I guess a new conspiracy theory is born.

 

Yes. I hear the new buzz on the streets is calling patches expansions. Anyway, I just made my tinfoil hat, and a double-layered one, at that.

They provide enough new content in them that they can call them expansions especially with them being free.  This is not uncommon throughout the entire MMO industry.  People only make a big deal out of it because they want another reason to rag on this game.  There are many good reasons to rag on this game,  but trolls do not like to stick to honest criticism alone.

The hit thing is odd definitely though.

Originally posted by zymurgeist

Originally posted by wh0astar

It's just merely word of mouth. Don't fret.

 

Meh someone is jiggering the results. It makes little difference most people who wanted to play Darkfall decided long ago.

Yeah, I'll admit it was a quick jump compared to a couple of weeks/months ago. Something's fishy around here ;)

Originally posted by Guillermo197

Originally posted by StrixMaxima

Originally posted by DarthRaiden

I guess a new conspiracy theory is born.

 

Yes. I hear the new buzz on the streets is calling patches expansions. Anyway, I just made my tinfoil hat, and a double-layered one, at that.

 

Just let him. We all know DarthRaiden by now. Don't we.

Every sane person knows that Darkfall has been death in the water and has gotten pretty much ZERO attention lately.

Every sane person knows that AION has been in the spotlights the last month.

And then seeing Darkfall generating that many hits. Yeah right.

Just some desperate fanbois or even Tasos himself who figured out how to run a Website Performance Tool and run it against the DF section of this website.

You obviously overead the posts in the popularity thread saying that many lurkers just visit these part of the forum and simply don't post ? Darkfall will ALWAYS be a hotspot.

Originally posted by gotha

Originally posted by StrixMaxima

Originally posted by DarthRaiden

I guess a new conspiracy theory is born.

 

Yes. I hear the new buzz on the streets is calling patches expansions. Anyway, I just made my tinfoil hat, and a double-layered one, at that.

 

They provide enough new content in them that they can call them expansions especially with them being free.  This is not uncommon throughout the entire MMO industry.  People only make a big deal out of it because they want another reason to rag on this game.  There are many good reasons to rag on this game,  but trolls do not like to stick to honest criticism alone.

 

The hit thing is odd definitely though.

Read my posting history about this, please. If you have questions, we can talk over PMs.

Originally posted by Ruyn

I think it makes perfect sense.  Since more and more people are starting to despise WoW it's logical that these people would look for a game that is its total opposite.

  Chess?

Originally posted by Thanosxp

Originally posted by Ruyn

I think it makes perfect sense.  Since more and more people are starting to despise WoW it's logical that these people would look for a game that is its total opposite.

 

  Chess?

I guess he meant something within the genre. Has to be a MMORPG.

Originally posted by DarthRaiden 

I guess he meant something within the genre. Has to be a MMORPG.

A troll with no sense of humour. I'm amazed.