Some interesting statistics about player activity.

Steam Graph:

http://steamgraph.net/index.php?action=graph&appid=218230&from=0

Planetside 2 X-fire Graph

http://beta.xfire.com/games/ps2

check this: http://steamgraph.net/index.php?action=graph&appid=218230&from=1354593975

It's almost EXACTLY the same as the xfire graph. And some people dare to question xfire's validity... 

Originally posted by sanshi44
Games usualy always have a high pop at release and it will drop down and lvl off after a month or so once the newness wares off.

Not just usually, but so consistently that you can bank on it. There's always some guy new to games that spots it for each game and goes all Chicken Little, thougfh.

There is one big thread about this on the PS2 forum

http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/why-is-planetside-2-losing-so-many-players.74954/

Check the info for BLOPS 2 and put them together, look nearly identical.

Not defending it though, population seems crap in game most of the time of the day.

The biggest disapoinment of PS2 is each faction goes to a map where they meet the least resistance.
Defending a base is worthless and none ven bothers to do it.

+ hackers live streaming their hacks for hours and hours and hours on end....PS2 is filled with hackers / cheaters
Game has horrible optimazation, in 1 patch i have 60+ fps 1 patch later its 20 fps.

I realy had high hopes for PS2 but they released a bad beta build as a final release and people just doesnt swallow that shit anymore these days.

Update after 3 months about player activities on Steam and X-Fire.

Steam Graph - OVERALL

Steam Graph - Month

X-Fire - Month

I only play roughly an hour a day and not everyday and I'm on one of the highest populated server Matherson, I can sense the amount of players is shrinking by the day though I have been seeing new names since the Soltech merge, I've been running with the same players since then. My previous outfit pretty much died and went off to play Chavalry so I left it and joined another and now half those guys are back to playing SWG*cough* which is what I should be doing too, I've been putting off with that game for a couple months now.

Sad that I can't get enough satisfaction to keep me playing for longer than 30-60 minutes anymore, not even the new SimCity which keeps resetting my city or preventing me from logging in, I regret even buying that game and I'm a long time huge SimCity fan... so sad.

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Originally posted by Agoden
Check the info for BLOPS 2 and put them together, look nearly identical.

Not defending it though, population seems crap in game most of the time of the day.

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Originally posted by ShakyMo
Well its dropped, like most new mmos.

But let's put it in context, its not a swtor style "everyone jump off this sinking ship" drop off.

Because many new mmos suck in the meanwhile, good ones are growing steadily. I dont agree that the dropping numbers have nothing to do with dissatisfaciton of the current game, you see this watching the graph. There is a huge interest in Planetside 2 but the game has just too many issues and missing features, they released a shiny bubble.