Is Steam Graphs Real

[palker4]

The site list gathers data from steam top 100 played games. If COD did not make it on the list in a give day it will show 0.

[III/JG53_Don]

So the graph shows only the appearances of players in MP?
The offline players are not taken into consideration?

Considering palker4s comment, if the online player numbers are well below maybe 250 people, the chart will show nothing. (since then it will most obviously not be able to get under the top 100 played games at that time)

Anyway an interesting chart... hope it will show some new climaxes in the nearest future

[jibo]

Palker4 is right and i'am currently buying some stocks

[JG5_emil]

I dont think this is MP only.

When you play offline you are still connected to steam (unless in offline mode) so it will record that as well.

I could be wrong of course but doesn't look right to me.

[III/JG53_Don]

But only round about 1.000 players at release? Seems very low...
on the other hand considering the horrible state of the game back then, maybe not more than 1.000 players played the game at the exact same time....
I mean for the overwhelming majority the game was totally unplayable at the beginning

I dunno what the graph show, it seems a little bit shady
But honestly I hope that these are online counts, not overall player numbers!

[DroopSnoot]

from what i have seen its overall online players, i guess SP should be ruled out since no-one is sure, but still it looks very bleak when you look at the graph

[Madfish]

Originally Posted by palker4

The site list gathers data from steam top 100 played games. If COD did not make it on the list in a give day it will show 0.

Originally Posted by III/JG53_Don

So the graph shows only the appearances of players in MP?
The offline players are not taken into consideration?

palker4 is right.

1. Steam reports the top 100 games sorted by players playing the game.
2. Players count in both, single AND multiplayer - as long as they are connected to steam.
3. Players using the Steam "Offline Mode" won't count
4. Games with less players than position 100 will show up with a 0 since steam doesn't output them on their stat page.

You can access the stat page here: http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

[III/JG53_Don]

Wow in this list are quite a few older Total War games, even the old Rome Interesting...

We can only hope that with the upcoming patch (and hopefully a few more in the future) this game gets a new revival. Just better gameperformance wont push it that much I'm afraid..i it has to be at least bugfree.
Better before the sequel to make its start as best as possible.

[Madfish]

Most of these games on the stat page are expected to be played more than a sim. Also there's no other real sim on there. Not even casual titles like HAWX, none of the DCS games, no Take on Helicopters, not even Wings of Prey... nothing.

Personally I believe a well written and emotional campaign would be the best selling point. Scripted, voiced over, maybe even having a few nice cutscenes.

I'd enjoy that and it's what most fan projects fail at. I wouldn't even mind if it was in native language (e.g. Russian / German with subtitles for the Moscow theatre).

But that's another topic

[III/JG53_Don]

Exactly, we need a campaign to get the newbies into the game. Just some quick missions and kludgy missions combined to a 6 mission long campaign dont bind people to the game.

Like the Deasastersoft campaigns as a stock campaign. Lovely missions with historical accuracy to make the player part of the events.
I by far prefer an accurate scripted campaign rathzer than a dynamic one which missions are one like the other.