"This game is dead or it's going to die!!1"

Step 1) Take your Steam stats, pop them in a box.

Step 2) Get in your best Exploration ship.

Step 3) Take a trip to Sgr A*

Step 4) Eject the box there.

Step 5) Come back.
 
I think essentially question is - do you enjoy game? If yes, it doesn't die, it is still ongoing, enjoy it. If you don't - then move on.

I think players should really stop factor future in their fun. Speculation is fun for a while, but eventually it runs out of steam and then it just becomes 'I like it vs. you don't like it' forum fight, which is boring as hell.

Must be the new year..First time we've ever agreed on anything.
 
Did we really NEED yet another one of these threads? Were the other 2 that are still open not good enough? :rolleyes:

No but it is difficult for someone to Troll unless they start the thread ...

I do wonder how that's going. Is Elite already up on the Tencent platform? I'd imagine Frontier would announce something like that.

Not failure with a Tencent platform .... but exactly what do you hope accomplish with your thread, IF, your not Trolling. As has been established, incomplete data gives you incomplete results.

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ZerotheHero

Banned
How many times we've heard this since the game released?

Well, it's almost 2018 and the game is doing fine:

https://i.imgur.com/mLbPj0B.png

This is only from Steam. Which is probably around half of the playerbase, looking at the Steam sales out of the 2.75 million copies sold back in August.

And yes, this thread serves pretty much no purpose. Which is why it fits right in.

Considering this is SUPPOSED to be a AAA title I would find it a tad awkward when a free to play game pulls in over 3 times the amount of players DAILY....
 
I first acquired Steam with Skyrim. I wasn't impressed with it then, and I didn't really want it, but I was stuck with it.
To this day, I've never seen that screen anywhere, and don't care if I ever do. Since I don't work for Frontier or a Marketing firm, unit sales do not interest me.
As it so happens, sometimes I like things that are not "top sellers" or even things other people do not. Like Jar Jar Binks... only I didn't like Jar Jar either, but you get the point. I hope. If not, I didn't bring my crayons, so no detailed explanations.
 
They are really cagey about it, understandable given all the DOOM !. The only time they ever gave a glimpse into the real numbers was when the said PVP'ers are a vocal minority, and they wanted to encourage more players into open. Beyond that it's anybody's guess.

Given that they changed their original roadmap and started beyond instead, I guess all the salty mines on the forum and their claims were soemwhat proofed by the numbers frontier has and so they decided to improve those partzs before to contine the other features. if the game ran great, such thing wouldn't have to be done.
 
I first acquired Steam with Skyrim. I wasn't impressed with it then, and I didn't really want it, but I was stuck with it.
To this day, I've never seen that screen anywhere, and don't care if I ever do. Since I don't work for Frontier or a Marketing firm, unit sales do not interest me.
As it so happens, sometimes I like things that are not "top sellers" or even things other people do not. Like Jar Jar Binks... only I didn't like Jar Jar either, but you get the point. I hope. If not, I didn't bring my crayons, so no detailed explanations.

Yet as long as a game is an online game you SHOULD have interest in such numbers, unless you alone can convince a company that you alone will be paying for the servers that the game needs to be run on.
 

Tiny_Rick

Banned
Stats don't lie. (But I might).


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"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
 
Yet as long as a game is an online game you SHOULD have interest in such numbers, unless you alone can convince a company that you alone will be paying for the servers that the game needs to be run on.

Doesn't take much convincing, just a certified check.

But we also know that Steam only applies to a portion of a portion of the player base.

XBox users aren't counted.
PS4 users aren't counted.
Purchases made from the Frontier Store are not counted.
People like me who block outbound identifiable traffic to Steam with Layer 7 firewall rules aren't counted (I get enough junk e-mail and "targeted" ads already, I don't welcome any more, especially from Valve. I'd rather hear from EA).

So what total percentage of the player base does this actually reflect?

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"Look out there. Millions and millions of stars. Millions upon millions of worlds. And right now, half of them are fanatically dedicated to destroying the other half. Now - do you think, if one of those twinkling little lights suddenly went out, anybody would notice?" - Gaila
 

Tiny_Rick

Banned
So what total percentage of the player base does this actually reflect?

Maybe if you read what was below the stats, you'd understand it's not meant to be an exhaustive conclusion. Here, let me assist:

This is only from Steam. Which is probably around half of the playerbase, looking at the Steam sales out of the 2.75 million copies sold back in August.

And yes, this thread serves pretty much no purpose. Which is why it fits right in.

Complete reading is smart reading!

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The Steam stats don't even reflect those of us who have Steam accounts correctly. For instance, my Steam account says I've played less than 5 hours. Ingame is a tad more accurate at just over 3370.

Silly Steam stats.

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