ED Steamcharts "4,000" active players. Pathetic
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its actually a good strong sign of player retention
but it dose its the market LEADER
Have rep, for a far more informative post than the OP's.
The market leader of what?
3rd party DRM/clients/distribution platforms.
They have to be to get away with skimming 30% off the top of everything sold.
Twitch numbers have dropped quite a bit now, too. Every now and then a big streamer will bring it back over 200 viewers. There are some days where NMS has more viewership.
Heck I have seen most days that people streaming their D&D tabletop sessions has more viewers than ED
I don't play the game through steam.....nor does anyone I know who plays the game. This is just another in a long line of "Concern Troll" posts, desperately praying for the demise of E: D, because it's proven more successful than NMS or Star Citizen.
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You stopped playing yet still return here to whine and moan? Seriously?
Yep, some people-like this guy-have no life
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Hang on, you use Steam yet you still get laid?!?!
A lot of people who bought on Steam don't actually play the game through the Steam interface, so you can't put too much stock in those numbers.
I bought my copy on Steam, but since the game still comes with the Frontier Launcher app, I always launch and play the game direct off my desktop.
So... Even though I bought the game on Steam, I am never included in the Steam stats. I have a feeling I am not the only ED owner who uses the Frontier launcher to boot the game instead of running the game though Steam. Anyone who chooses this method will never be included in the Steam active player numbers for ED.
I bought my copy on Steam, but since the game still comes with the Frontier Launcher app, I always launch and play the game direct off my desktop.
So... Even though I bought the game on Steam, I am never included in the Steam stats. I have a feeling I am not the only ED owner who uses the Frontier launcher to boot the game instead of running the game though Steam. Anyone who chooses this method will never be included in the Steam active player numbers for ED.
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Same but the last ones I made were terrible.
Don't mock the op! This thread is important! Don't you all know that your enjoyment of a game is directly relative to the amount of steam players???
It's almost as if you're able to enjoy the game without any regard as to what anyone else thinks. As if you can.. think for yourselves.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!
It's almost as if you're able to enjoy the game without any regard as to what anyone else thinks. As if you can.. think for yourselves.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!
meh. I don't need anyone else in the galaxy to enjoy playing Elite. Sure, I do appreciate player interaction but I don't NEED it. If every mode other than solo vanished tomorrow I'd still be playing it when FD eventually pulled the plug and would hope they then opensourced the server code and made a galaxy state snapshot available so that those of us who were still enjoying it - even if "those of us" meant "just me" - could carry on playing
but.. Imagination™.. Blaze your own trail™...
That's exactly right. I don't need anyone else, or you, telling me how to play the game the way I want to.
And if you can't think for yourself that is not my problem (and possibly not the problem of a great number of people here who do know how to think for themselves).
What is wrong with people? From what I've read they are fed up with the amount of pathetic trolling of these forums. They are not wrong, they are right.
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I think you guys are missing the point about what the numbers on steam represent.
Steam held an average player count of about 11,000 early 2016. Since then it has fallen to 4,000 averaging about 4,200-4,600 ish.
6-7 thousand people don't randomly decide to stop playing through the steam interface all collectively, maybe some here and there but nothing significant. It's perfectly reasonable to analyze and hypothesize that a 7 Thousand player decline is concerning.
Now imagine how many of those active users are playing in Open?
World of Warcraft has about 14.5 million sold copies, about 2.3 million active globally.
Elite had sold around 1.6 million copies. By the same ratio of WoW (Which possesses much more longevity) Elite SHOULD have around 250k active players. But we all know that's not true because of that 250k there is no chance that only 4k of those players are using Steam. Those calculations include Xbox as well.
Here's the kicker
Elite dangerous had about 98k pre-orders and sold around 24k later when it launched. Then ED hit Steam and within 1 month the copies sold went from 122k to 712k. Obviously more and more as it became featured on the front page of steam, and horizons helped its publicity.
So yes, the steamcharts hold significance.
Steam held an average player count of about 11,000 early 2016. Since then it has fallen to 4,000 averaging about 4,200-4,600 ish.
6-7 thousand people don't randomly decide to stop playing through the steam interface all collectively, maybe some here and there but nothing significant. It's perfectly reasonable to analyze and hypothesize that a 7 Thousand player decline is concerning.
Now imagine how many of those active users are playing in Open?
World of Warcraft has about 14.5 million sold copies, about 2.3 million active globally.
Elite had sold around 1.6 million copies. By the same ratio of WoW (Which possesses much more longevity) Elite SHOULD have around 250k active players. But we all know that's not true because of that 250k there is no chance that only 4k of those players are using Steam. Those calculations include Xbox as well.
Here's the kicker
Elite dangerous had about 98k pre-orders and sold around 24k later when it launched. Then ED hit Steam and within 1 month the copies sold went from 122k to 712k. Obviously more and more as it became featured on the front page of steam, and horizons helped its publicity.
So yes, the steamcharts hold significance.
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