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• • xfire shows AoC numbers decreasing :(

  • Originally posted by baso80
    

    Originally posted by Lydon
    

    Originally posted by SioBabble
    

    Since X Fire is self selecting, and you don't automagically log into it when you launch whatever game you're about to play, the numbers don't mean too much to me.

    If I'm not mistaken it launches automatically when your PC turns on my default. The majority of people who intend on using the program for what it is designed will leave that option on. Apart from that, wherever you launch the game from on your PC is will detect that it is running.

    I consider it quite accurate considering it is collecting data from such a large sample of users.

     

    Correct.

     

    It launches automatically by default. And I also agree that is gives an accurate picture of the gaming market since it has a large user base.

     

    People just dont want to knowledge xfire when their own game goes bad. AoC is dropping like a sack of potatoes when you look at the charts. But hey, it still is a popular game. But in a year AoC is not gonna be better than any other random mmo. It's still brand new and therefore people are giving it a try.

     

     

    Big agree.

    The overall Xfire system has a base of 10 million + players on various games. Yet, I have even seen on the AoC forums people saying "No one uses it"

    10 million "No ones" (lol)

    The data is clear. The game has lost roughly half or more of it's Xfire base. 50% loss is not something to shake a stick at.

    But, I also wish to point out how much the games fluctuate. And lets keep an open mind.  AoC CAN improve..

    The game to compete against at this point is going to be WAR. This gives AoC roughly 3 months or maybe more (I feel a slight tinge we may see a delay on WAR until Christmas or further than September at least) to get their act together.

    Funcom screwed up, but can fix it. Fix the game to what they promised, lets the players who left come back free for a month in September, and this could change the spiral and get a good base of players.

    Overall populations do not suck yet thanks to people still buying and trying or those who do not want to go back to their old MMO's, or the casuals who like the PvE (which does not TOTALLY suck).

    Look at these stats and you can see a grim picture

    http://classygamer.blogspot.com/

    This guy tracked all AoC EU servers, and got a rough average of players. Based on this sample, you usualy take the overall count and can multiply that by 10%. This % covers users logging on and off during the day and brings in the US servers. We still see a better population than say Tabula Rasa, Vanguard, EQ2 or LOTRO.

    If Funcom gets their thumb out of their A**, then this can at least be a good NICHE game like Guild Wars or EQ2 or CoH/CoV.

    They need focus is all. And watching patches will give us an idea if that focus will work.

  • Posted: 7/04/08 7:12 AM
    Age of Conan
• • xfire shows AoC numbers decreasing :(

  • Originally posted by ethion
    

    My vote is to sell it to soe and add it to station pass :P  Guess thats cause I like station pass.

     

    I am afraid that you are just paying all that money for one good game ..

    EQ2

    The rest of the games under that pass is just a bonus, and are not worth the extra you pay.

    AoC deserves better than that.

  • Posted: 7/04/08 6:57 AM
    Age of Conan
• • xfire shows AoC numbers decreasing :(

  • Originally posted by Warblaze
    

    as for Xfire, it seems AOC is going down faster then a five dollar hooker...  Yesterday it dropped from the 7th to the 8th place. Today it has dropped another 2 spots and now stands on #10.

    Yea, they are screwed again today. 5 hour loss for another patch to fix the patch, that was the patch before that, which crashed the patch, that was suppose to be the patch for stabilty

    I patch that!

  • Posted: 7/03/08 1:31 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Unique AoC feature! Totaly next gen!

  • Originally posted by DeaconX
    

    What UI are you using and where could I get it? :) thanks in advance.

     

    +1 for humor.

    Well done!

  • Posted: 7/03/08 1:29 PM
    Age of Conan
• • AoC reaches one million copies

  • Why necro this thread....been gone for a month now.

    Think that is against ToS guys

    Later

  • Posted: 7/03/08 12:35 PM
    Age of Conan