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1/02/13 11:45:37 PM#181
Originally posted by gamesrfun You did NOT give a formula. What is the regression formula? I know how to do a linear regression. But you have failed to give the results, or the numbers even used in the regression. Anyone can say their friend did a study. But thats worthless without the actual details of said study. |
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1/02/13 11:59:16 PM#182
This thread happened to pop up on the front page so I clicked into it. Do people still use Xfire anymore? Everyone I know uses Raptr if you want that sort of thing. Still tracks everything and you can import anything you need. It really is way better.
Xfire has one game left over 100k hours this week Raptr has 10 games with 100k hours this week; 4 of them with 250k +.
Don't know why anyone would use Xfire for trends with such a small sampling.
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1/03/13 1:08:40 AM#183
Originally posted by Letsinod Raptr shows Rift with nearly double the traffic of Guild Wars 2 this past month. GW2 may have flopped hard but I seriously doubt Rift is anywhere near as popular as GW2 right now. You might as well throw Raptr out of the discussion. The only thing(assuming it hasn't been promoted by certain games and thus skewing the numbers) it's good for is showing that sampling isn't always as accurate as one source(xfire) might suggest. I did a head count on SWTOR Monday and came up with about 50,000 concurrent users between US and Europe. xfire said Monday was a relatively light day for SWTOR. Made me kinda doubt xfire's findings. |
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1/03/13 1:27:25 AM#184
Originally posted by Camaro68 Rift just did a huge promotion with Raptr |
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1/03/13 6:04:48 AM#185
You have not shown anything. You have typed up a lot of words, but you have provided no information. Yamota started this thread with good intent, and in the guise of 'helping', you are pushing it away from anyone following through with Yamota's goal. But since you're asking about meritocracy, let's get into your post. You did not show that XFire is valid, you showed that XFire requires additional information to point to a valid number. The second problem is that there is a host of public information showing that XFire does not correlate to game populations consistently. Which makes sense, since if it correlated with anything it would be concurrent players. Except it doesn't even do that (look at Eve's concurrent players for reference). There's no point in going over the math in your original post because there isn't any math. ** edit ** Did you even read your post? "Top 20 MMOs"? Really? You determined the actual population of 20 MMOs separate from XFire? This I would love to see. Join the League For Gamers. |
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1/03/13 5:53:59 PM#186
I contacted my friend in WoW: he is going to send me the excel sheet tonight. I will then repost the data and you will quickly see how reliable XFire is when it comes to population estimation within a game (not between games).
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VengeSunsoar
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Joined: 3/10/04
GRIND DOES NOT EXIST. IT IS ENTIRELY YOUR PERCEPTION. |
1/03/13 8:51:16 PM#187
Originally posted by gamesrfun The data will be interesting to be sure, however how will it verify an ingame's population? What is the comparison? We will allready need to know the ingame population over several time periods in order to compare the data. You know, in ancient Egypt. One of the hieroglyphics on the walls of the pyramids actually says 'I am upset as my heir will ruin my kingdom' or something to that affect. This is 5000BC stuff and you know what? Nothing has changed. :P |
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1/04/13 10:37:00 AM#188
Originally posted by VengeSunsoar The data was pulled from various sources: From what I have at home this is what I saw (I'm at work atm) AoC (pulled from investor relations information) DaoC (pulled from the server statistics on the camelotherald) EVE: (freely available) Warhammer (upon its release, various server parses) Rift (server parses) WoW: (server parsing) SWTOR: (server parsing, investor relations information) The Secret World (investor relations (new!) Darkfall (I have no clue, no information provided, I can leave this one out of people wish) D&D online (server parse, f2p+) LoTR (server parse, f2p+) Aion (server parse) Allods Online (server parse) Runes of Magic (server parse) Tera (server parse) That's all I can remember, but there were 20 data points, so I'm missing a few.
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1/04/13 10:50:35 AM#189
What is a "server parse"? Join the League For Gamers. |
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1/04/13 11:02:38 AM#190
Originally posted by lizardbones It's where someone tried to count the ever changing number of concurrent users assuming it's constant during the count and representative of population. In short it's useless. "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice." ~Greys Law |
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1/04/13 11:02:47 AM#191
Originally posted by lizardbones Log onto the server. Check the server population. If there are two factions (or more), make a character there and pull the population at a set point in time. I can get more info on each parse, but given the fact that this guy is nearly as smart as I am, I would imagine he considered things like server merges, anon characters, parse limits within games, time consistency, etc. etc. |
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1/04/13 5:13:28 PM#192
Originally posted by lizardbones Parsing in this context refers to automatic scanning of playeractivity through search windows/tabs of games. Its a method people use mainly just in WoW to track online activity through the /who list. Basically they search for peoples levels, classes and other filter automatically and just log anyone who is online. Since its done automatically its pretty quick ranging from 1-10 minutes and can be treated as a single moment measurement. In most of the listed games this parsing however is not even possible as they do not have addons alowed like WoW, nor have almost unrestricted player search functions as those in WoW, but mostly the searchlists if any available at all, are limited to the current zone and/or have limited results and limited or no search filter at all. Its next to impossible to manually track even just one server in some games, then from every game of that list, leave alone every or several of their server to get some decent sample at least, and then repeat that over length of months. Of course these technical limitations throughout almost all those games can not stop the power of imagination and made up stories. The only limit of the story is how fast you can fabricate some numbers for a made up excel datasheet with all the results of this in practise impossible "parsing" of the top games. We are just back at the usual "Oh it got proven accurate before...according to me...proof its accurate!" "It was always accurate according to my undisclosed accuarate predictions and calculations...I can verify by me, my imaginary friend and myself! Screw your public contrary evidence" "Did I mention I have an internt degree in mathemagics? Therefore my unexplained claims are correct" "Here some arbitrary single unrelated and at best anecdotal datapoints everyone knows already, mixed into my assumptions and uneducated estimations! These facts prove my point. Do the math yourself!" Just in a more elaborated act than usual.
PS: I want a stickied thread then to "discuss" how much WoW damaged and dragged down the quality and soul of the MMORPG genre and the playercommunity as well over the last decade, without anyone permitted to "derail" it or go "off topic" by disagreeing or even doubting the premisses of the "discussion". 'Seamless world' - A world lacking visible or phys. seams, forming forced breaking points during transition and movement;
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1/04/13 5:18:35 PM#193
Statistic/Business majors would facepalm at most of this.
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1/04/13 9:08:26 PM#194
Few of my friends started using x- fire just for LoL. They use voice chat in x-fire to talk with ppl they met in game.
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1/05/13 12:36:09 AM#195
Originally posted by zymurgeist Actually server parses are more useful than xfire and probably the best tool we have. But yes, there are a ton of factors. Many games /anon and /role dont show up on a parse. Many games are flat out unparseable because of no way to break down the max level other than class. |
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1/05/13 12:37:26 AM#196
Originally posted by gamesrfun Well, no sense waiting for this "research" then |
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1/06/13 11:34:24 AM#197
You don't need any software or spreadsheets to do a head count on any SWTOR server. In the Who search bar type: 1 That will tell you how many level 1 players are in the game regardless of zone--in your faction. Just go up from there. When you get to 50, you have to type "Mercenary 50" and on down the line. I tried it and was suprised to see that at least on my server the Empire isn't much more populated. There were 2900 Empire players on vs. 2500 Republic players. The built up perception was that it was around 2:1 Empire. (For the sake of this arguement the server load was listed as Standard at the time) |
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1/06/13 1:18:05 PM#198
Originally posted by Sukiyaki While I have nothing against WoW, and I would actually be quicker to blame developers, I approve of this message! |
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1/06/13 2:03:25 PM#199
How long did this parse take you to complete? Join the League For Gamers. |
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1/06/13 3:24:20 PM#200
Originally posted by Camaro68 most games cap the who command. for instance, Rift caps it at 29. So on most servers doing a /who 60 mage wont return the full list, and there is no way to break it down from there.
Also in a game like EQ, using /role or /anon take you off a /who level search. And enough people use these to make counting accurately impossible.
Id be shocked if there really are 5400 concurrent logins in SWTOR. It would mean they told the truth about the super servers (unlike games like Rift that say they drastically increased capacity but really just bumped it by a couple hundred) |
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