Here's the link:

http://beta.xfire.com/games/gw2

Right now 44k hours/week, comparing to 93k hours/week in peak

its was number 2 last week i think and now 3, well they reset hours every week . did not use xfire for a while so i dont remember,

http://www.guildwarsinsider.com/guild-wars-2-is-ranked-2-on-xfire/

http://www.xfire.com/genre/mmo/massively_multiplayer_online/

first is LoL and cod 4 modern warfare is number 2 ,

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Originally posted by krakra70
Just looking at the chart at http://beta.xfire.com/games/gw2 it's easy to see that gw2's population is shrinking very quickly. And the best is yet to come (MoP).

the game has shown a steady decline on Xfire.. but.. if people are still queueing for W v W PvP, then i have to wonder how accurate that is.. although, the sample sizes are actually pretty small, so it might just indicate that Xfire users don't really stick to any one game for any length of time..

Originally posted by Phry

Originally posted by krakra70
Just looking at the chart at http://beta.xfire.com/games/gw2 it's easy to see that gw2's population is shrinking very quickly. And the best is yet to come (MoP).

the game has shown a steady decline on Xfire.. but.. if people are still queueing for W v W PvP, then i have to wonder how accurate that is.. although, the sample sizes are actually pretty small, so it might just indicate that Xfire users don't really stick to any one game for any length of time..

I tend to agree with you :)

Originally posted by krakra70
Just looking at the chart at http://beta.xfire.com/games/gw2 it's easy to see that gw2's population is shrinking very quickly. And the best is yet to come (MoP).

that's not what I see.

(not a gw2 player btw).

the decline is descelerating. the game is approaching stability. naturally stability is below the peak not above it otherwise it wouldn't be called a peak.

the final datapoint is abnormal, that does show accelerated decline but I won't make predictions out of 1 datapoint.

edit: Phry, i know the words "steady decline" sound cool and all but the quadratic curve I'm looking at is the exact opposite of 'steady'. a straight line is steady. a parabola is not steady.

Originally posted by krakra70
Just looking at the chart at http://beta.xfire.com/games/gw2 it's easy to see that gw2's population is shrinking very quickly. And the best is yet to come (MoP).

Best kid's game, maybe.

And you don't have the population statistics for GW2, the only evidence is that people are playing less than they did at launch.  That happens to every MMO.

Originally posted by Sevenstar61

Here's the link:

http://beta.xfire.com/games/gw2

 

Right now 44k hours/week, comparing to 93k hours/week in peak

You really have to compare day to day, not peak to lowest point.  The x-fire chart for nearly every game follows the same pattern.  Sunday is the peak for the given week, and usually Wed. or Thurs is the lowest.  You need to compare Sunday to Sunday, Saturday to Saturday, etc.  So comparing the peaks, sunday the 16th was at 68k compared to 93k for the peak for the week 2 weeks earlier.  This is roughly 28 or 29 percent decline.  But (there is always one) that is in hours played, not players, the players declined from about 15k on the 2nd (yes I have been following and keeping tabs on it, I really wish I had more of a life) to about 12.2k on the 16th which is a roughly 18 percent decline.  So hours played is declining more rapidly than the number of users, which is common since people tend to play most heavily in the first few weeks.  

Originally posted by Eir_S

Originally posted by krakra70
Just looking at the chart at http://beta.xfire.com/games/gw2 it's easy to see that gw2's population is shrinking very quickly. And the best is yet to come (MoP).

Best kid's game, maybe.

And you don't have the population statistics for GW2, the only evidence is that people are playing less than they did at launch.  That happens to every MMO.

Are we really gonna fgo down that path again? MOP is for kids and GW2 is for grown ups with its fluffy asura and 'my little pony' pink bows? why can't you people disagree with other people opinion without generalization or labels? seriiously? been playing GW2 for 20 days and i don't see how and what in this game puts us in a position to call MOP a kiddies game. The game is full of kids and pre teens.

Originally posted by krakra70
Just looking at the chart at http://beta.xfire.com/games/gw2 it's easy to see that gw2's population is shrinking very quickly. And the best is yet to come (MoP).

LoL LoL LoL ... Are you joking?

I am a 6 years WoW player in a hardcore raider guild... and It's hard to see someone thinking MoP will be "the best". Maybe best for kids and girls who like pokemon. Also the new talent system is garbage. I think I am just tired of the game after so much time.

As for the numbers in xfire, it's showing stabilization for GW2.

Originally posted by niceguy3978

Originally posted by Sevenstar61

Here's the link:

http://beta.xfire.com/games/gw2

 

Right now 44k hours/week, comparing to 93k hours/week in peak

You really have to compare day to day, not peak to lowest point.  The x-fire chart for nearly every game follows the same pattern.  Sunday is the peak for the given week, and usually Wed. or Thurs is the lowest.  You need to compare Sunday to Sunday, Saturday to Saturday, etc.  So comparing the peaks, sunday the 16th was at 68k compared to 93k for the peak for the week 2 weeks earlier.  This is roughly 28 or 29 percent decline.  But (there is always one) that is in hours played, not players, the players declined from about 15k on the 2nd (yes I have been following and keeping tabs on it, I really wish I had more of a life) to about 12.2k on the 16th which is a roughly 18 percent decline.  So hours played is declining more rapidly than the number of users, which is common since people tend to play most heavily in the first few weeks.  

I think it's a pattern for every game, when you look at graphs for other game the pattern is the same. There is a big decline in hours played (50 000 h/week)  - that's a fact. But it happens to all games so I think it's just a normal thing these days

Xfire numbers are more of a trend then real numbers... you can't really estimate population from it. For example Rift has like 100 Xfire players... you would think that game is dead and it's not....

Edit: Rift - today 147 players - just to be accurate. GW2 - 11402 players

Originally posted by Eir_S

Originally posted by krakra70
Just looking at the chart at http://beta.xfire.com/games/gw2 it's easy to see that gw2's population is shrinking very quickly. And the best is yet to come (MoP).

Best kid's game, maybe.

And you don't have the population statistics for GW2, the only evidence is that people are playing less than they did at launch.  That happens to every MMO.

Correction: That happens to every FAILED MMO. It didn't happen to successful MMOs like WoW, EQ, DAoC etc. Their populations kept rising for the first few years (4-5 years in WoW's case)

And I never implied MoP is "the best" at anything, I just mean that GW2's population will have a huge drop at MoP release. The question is: how many of those who leave for MoP will come back to gw2? To be continued...

While I agree that XFire numbers have droppedin the last 3 weeks,the question is where did the players go to?  The #2 western MMO which would be WoW, it's numbers have been flat for the last 3 weeks, # 3 would be SWToR also flat, Aion dropped a bit, LoTRO is pretty much flat. If people are dropping GW2, where are they going ? Certainly not back to WoW, SWToR, Aion, or LoTRO although WoW did take a almost 50% hit on GW2's release date it looks like.Back on Aug 26th WoW had almost 50K hours

On the MOP thing I just have to chuckle, not sure who thought that was a billiant idea but have to wonder what demographic they are aiming for with pandas.  Will be interesting to see how much of a XFire bounce they get and how long it sustains

Originally posted by Sevenstar61

Xfire numbers are more of a trend then real numbers... you can't really estimate population from it. For example Rift has like 100 Xfire players... you would think that game is dead and it's not....

 

Edit: Rift - today 147 players - just to be accurate. GW2 - 11402 players

very very true

Originally posted by krakra70

The question is: how many of those who leave for MoP will come back to gw2? To be continued...

The real question is how many will leave GW2 to go back to WoW, so far the answer seems to be no one. WoW had almost 50K ( 48913)  in Xfire 2 days before GW2's release, it dropped by over half with GW2'sd release and as of today still is only around 20K ( 21161)