Not really worried about ED's steamchart stats. Being in the top 150 is still consistent and healthy for ED which is now above FarCry5, Kerbal, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and Battletech. The past few weeks also overlapping the NMS-next update drop, showed a decline for ED, but it still seems cyclical with an eventual positive climbing phase. ED also placed in steam's "bronze" bestseller category which was better than all the other space genre niche games (before NMS-Next) If ED dropped below 250 or so in a year, then I'd be more concerned.
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Not really worried about ED's steamchart stats. Being in the top 150 is still consistent and healthy for ED which is now above FarCry5, Kerbal, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and Battletech. The past few weeks also overlapping the NMS-next update drop, showed a decline for ED, but it still seems cyclical with an eventual positive climbing phase. ED also placed in steam's "bronze" bestseller category which was better than all the other space genre niche games (before NMS-Next) If ED dropped below 250 or so in a year, then I'd be more concerned.
The main flaw is they show individual players multiple times... If I was in a T9 doing a trade route and I flew 10 runs, each system traffic report would show 10 T9's.
All the data sources we have for player activity are flawed in some way. Activity at systems I regularly frequent are indicative of one thing, traffic reports at Shinrata or an engineer tell a story, CG activity (both number of participants & local traffic news) say something too.
There is no magic single stat to rule them all
The white knights are not upset about steamcharts but about people who are using the wrong numbers and made up charts.
All the data sources we have for player activity are flawed in some way. Activity at systems I regularly frequent are indicative of one thing, traffic reports at Shinrata or an engineer tell a story, CG activity (both number of participants & local traffic news) say something too.
There is no magic single stat to rule them all
I'll get worried the first week we go without a doom thread.
So you suggest that the chart was photoshoped to join different timeline scales?
Edit: The OP did nothing wrong, the website indeed has different frecuencies of data points.
Nontheless, if we see the chart of the whole existence of ED, we are currently at a historical minimun and in this chart the frecuency of data points is consistent.
https://steamcharts.com/app/359320#All
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No, but the data it shows doesn't exist.
On your edit, no we aren't at a historical low. March, April, May, June and July 2016 and June 2018 were lower.
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Yes it exists, it's only got a different frecuency of data plots.
Now that's a bold statement.
Since Steam privacy setting change spy charts are tosh anyway. I am surprised people insisting to use them.
Please elaborate.
What a shame…
Ed could have been the best game and look how it is now.
Who is in charge surely must be proud of himself… [haha]
I'm actually surprised the player count on steam only dipped 20% in the last month given the update to NMS.
For my part I've not played Elite on pc in quite some time and I don't imagine I will until the Q4 update.
Steam changed default privacy settings for API access. Default as being off. If player does not enable it voluntary, SteamSpy and others can't reliably query players anymore. Also their stats formula has been called into question before by devs, who see actual sales numbers.
So no, these numbers have never been very reliable and now they are completely off. All games saw considerable drop off after rolling out privacy update.
It is way more constructive to convey subjective criticism without such confirmation bias.
lol I see what you did there. Bold statement. Very good!
Using a different frequency of data points is entirely scientifically inaccurate and if done on purpose manipulation.
Interesting article, kind of makes a mockery of Steam Charts now doesn't it
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It's even more surprising if you consider that it's quite some time since the last major update was released.
Interesting, since the chart we are talking about doesn't even show average players.
So are we scientists now?
Look, we are no geniuses and we aren't writing a peer reviewed paper, steam charts just display more information on the last month or two, it's done because it's not particularly useful to know the amount of players per day over the course of 3 years.
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