It's practically impossible to have 50% drop over 2 days. I think what that poster said about xfire being broken is correct. 

Originally posted by nihce

It's practically impossible to have 50% drop over 2 days. I think what that poster said about xfire being broken is correct. 

never was a 50% drop, the doubling referenced in the OP was for a Saturday and Sunday when the game went up top 3200 and 3600 hours. LAst weekend it went down to the 2000 range. I figure a lot of people were like me they went back p[layed for  a hour or two for free then deleted it after seeing that is still the same old POS

check the rating today

Originally posted by nihce

check the rating today

yeah it is popping up and down 700  hours  for no valid reason unless the servers were down Tuesday...odd

lol, look at the graph :) Nothing can vary that much

Originally posted by Jackdog

Originally posted by nihce

check the rating today

yeah it is popping up and down 700  hours  for no valid reason unless the servers were down Tuesday...odd

Servers were down for a small update, most likely what caused the drop.

Originally posted by shantideva

Originally posted by Jackdog

Originally posted by nihce

check the rating today

yeah it is popping up and down 700  hours  for no valid reason unless the servers were down Tuesday...odd

Servers were down for a small update, most likely what caused the drop.

ok a 6 - 7 hour downtime would account for it. Games just don't drop 25% and pop back up in the middle of a week for no reason' Looks like it has settled out around 2700 hours per day weekdays and most likley peak onSundays with about 3000- 3200 or so. Respectable.

Originally posted by Jackdog

Originally posted by shantideva

Originally posted by Jackdog

Originally posted by nihce

check the rating today

yeah it is popping up and down 700  hours  for no valid reason unless the servers were down Tuesday...odd

Servers were down for a small update, most likely what caused the drop.

ok a 6 - 7 hour downtime would account for it. Games just don't drop 25% and pop back up in the middle of a week for no reason' Looks like it has settled out around 2700 hours per day weekdays and most likley peak onSundays with about 3000- 3200 or so. Respectable.

it was at 3300 hrs today (saturday figures) and usually rizes on further on Sunday so we should see about 3500 hrs tomorrow. This is about a month since F2P and Blood and Glory. Seems like its stabilizing for the summer. Then soon there will be the new Conan film and probaly another influx of players. Quite nice actually for a 3 year old game that was predicted dead an buried within a year after launch. Yet again Funcom has turned a catastrophic launch to a solid MMO. 

Originally posted by Aceundor

Originally posted by Jackdog

Originally posted by shantideva

Originally posted by Jackdog

Originally posted by nihce

check the rating today

yeah it is popping up and down 700  hours  for no valid reason unless the servers were down Tuesday...odd

Servers were down for a small update, most likely what caused the drop.

ok a 6 - 7 hour downtime would account for it. Games just don't drop 25% and pop back up in the middle of a week for no reason' Looks like it has settled out around 2700 hours per day weekdays and most likley peak onSundays with about 3000- 3200 or so. Respectable.

it was at 3300 hrs today (saturday figures) and usually rizes on further on Sunday so we should see about 3500 hrs tomorrow. This is about a month since F2P and Blood and Glory. Seems like its stabilizing for the summer. Then soon there will be the new Conan film and probaly another influx of players. Quite nice actually for a 3 year old game that was predicted dead an buried within a year after launch. Yet again Funcom has turned a catastrophic launch to a solid MMO. 

depends on the retention, AOC never did have a issue attracting people, bbut has neve been goood at retaining them. Several times since release the game made it back into the 20's overall on XFire but within a month or so they would start falling again.I think it was made it back into the teens overall when the Xpac was released. for referance yesterday it was #39 overall with 11 other MMOs ahead of it. Better than a month or 2 back when it was dipping below #100

Originally posted by Jackdog

Originally posted by Aceundor

Originally posted by Jackdog

Originally posted by shantideva

Originally posted by Jackdog

Originally posted by nihce

check the rating today

yeah it is popping up and down 700  hours  for no valid reason unless the servers were down Tuesday...odd

Servers were down for a small update, most likely what caused the drop.

ok a 6 - 7 hour downtime would account for it. Games just don't drop 25% and pop back up in the middle of a week for no reason' Looks like it has settled out around 2700 hours per day weekdays and most likley peak onSundays with about 3000- 3200 or so. Respectable.

it was at 3300 hrs today (saturday figures) and usually rizes on further on Sunday so we should see about 3500 hrs tomorrow. This is about a month since F2P and Blood and Glory. Seems like its stabilizing for the summer. Then soon there will be the new Conan film and probaly another influx of players. Quite nice actually for a 3 year old game that was predicted dead an buried within a year after launch. Yet again Funcom has turned a catastrophic launch to a solid MMO. 

depends on the retention, AOC never did have a issue attracting people, bbut has neve been goood at retaining them. Several times since release the game made it back into the 20's overall on XFire but within a month or so they would start falling again.I think it was made it back into the teens overall when the Xpac was released. for referance yesterday it was #39 overall with 11 other MMOs ahead of it. Better than a month or 2 back when it was dipping below #100

Jackdog - i agree with your conclusion. It will depend on retention. However your figures are wrong. At the launch of the Godslayer xpac AoC never got above rank 26. Also the dips below 100 were due to patches and downtimes. It was down in the 80s 

Source: A norwegian group of investors has made a website that tracks statistics for Funcom games. Have a look at the xfire stats on this page: zhttp://www.funcominvestor.com/aoc_statistikk.php

Klick on "xfire rangering" (xfire rank) and move the cursor over the graph (dont think it works in IE so try another browser if it fails to load. )

Just watched this graph , thanks for providing it.

Xfire and other systems like that were not good indicator imo , but if there is not otehr stats it can at least show a trend.

Seems F2P gave AoC some small boost , like it was expected - almost all big changed/expansions bring some old players back and attract some new ones. Though in this case it seems that this increase imho is smaller than expected. Still AoC is lower atm than in may 2010 according to FuncomInvestor graph.

Still imo we'll have to wait for 2-3 months to judge it better.

I tried f2p AoC and leaved quickly but I am still interested even if just because of my personal interest in mmorpg industry as whole, how diffrent business model are succesful, etc.

So quick question: have it been announced that AoC will have some new sizeable content added? or massive revamp to old one? Havent heard personally but well it might be just me.

I for one tryed it, got level 10 and didnt like it at all.  I think the numbers you see dont necessarily mean people are enjoying or playing the full game with all of its depth.  its F2P im sure account creations and level 1-10 area is booming but that could be all.

Originally posted by Sulaa

Just watched this graph , thanks for providing it.

 

Xfire and other systems like that were not good indicator imo , but if there is not otehr stats it can at least show a trend.

Seems F2P gave AoC some small boost , like it was expected - almost all big changed/expansions bring some old players back and attract some new ones. Though in this case it seems that this increase imho is smaller than expected. Still AoC is lower atm than in may 2010 according to FuncomInvestor graph.

 

Still imo we'll have to wait for 2-3 months to judge it better.

 

I tried f2p AoC and leaved quickly but I am still interested even if just because of my personal interest in mmorpg industry as whole, how diffrent business model are succesful, etc.

So quick question: have it been announced that AoC will have some new sizeable content added? or massive revamp to old one? Havent heard personally but well it might be just me.

Xfire is a horrible trending tool. The typical xfire is extremely likely to be young and w/o funds (much better comm options exist). Funcom's quarterly results will be a much better indicator of how well they are doing.

Originally posted by catlana

Xfire is a horrible trending tool. The typical xfire is extremely likely to be young and w/o funds (much better comm options exist). Funcom's quarterly results will be a much better indicator of how well they are doing.

Yeah you're right propably.