they just ignore the fact that this numbers r wrong
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they lead to the wrong assumption cause they r wrong...
ED Steamcharts "4,000" active players. Pathetic
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they just ignore the fact that this numbers r wrong
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they lead to the wrong assumption cause they r wrong...
It does when you consider players may change behaviours for a vast number of reasons. Players may stop using the Steam client when they realise they do not need to use it at all, or they may stop running the ED launcher through Steam 24/7 (or a significant portion there of) for any of a number of reasons.
It is already free-to-play in essence, we do not pay a subscription, only for new season features and cosmetic content. LEP owners of-course don't pay for anything more except the cosmetic stuff. FD do not need to change anything, especially if the number of "Steam" owners are have increased as much as has been indicated. Bear in mind that there are still a number of players that do not use Steam if they can avoid doing so.... which is largely the case with ED.
Overalll, Steam concurrent user statistics in the case of ED are at best a curiosity and have ZERO validity in terms of determining popularity of the title.
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Sigh.
Again Steam stats.
This graph completely ignores that you could not participate in betas if you were using Steam. People had to literally stop using the Steam client and switch to Frontier's.
It ignores anyone NOT using Steam, and there are many reasons you might not be using Steam. For example if you're on an XBox or PS4.
If you want a measure that's as good as any, and includes non-Steam owners. (Not sure if XBox are included)
Go look at the traffic reports at stations for popular CGs. Again hugely flawed but at least it (probably) includes all players.
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It allows people to play their favourite game; pretending to be accountants/statisticians/relevant. (delete as appropriate)
Yeah. So it's absolutely amazing that during the period that Beta is live, the steam stats show a drop-off in the number of players down from the average of around 10,000 that it was showing up to the week before Beta. Who could possibly have predicted such an outcome.
For what it's worth I don't expect them to continue the season model past 2.4 myself but not due to falling player numbers, simply because they don't seem to be especially effective at delivering (timewise I mean) within the constraints that the model imposes.
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Don't forget backseat driver!
Quick, grab the steering wheel .. to me, to you to you, to me .. oops! (tree).
No, it is play to play. You have to pay to buy the game, else you don't get to play it.
Lots of players don't pay for new season 2 content - they get plenty free in 1.X - and lots of players don't pay for cosmetic content because they don't want it.
You've got some figures to back that up? Because I've seen none.
Since the majority of ED game sales are through Steam (as is clear from the Frontier reports to shareholders) then Steam sales figures have MAJOR validity in terms of determining popularity of the title.
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u will find few ppl on this thread say they dont..but they r wrong cause isnt steam right?....and u have seen nothing that tells the truth doom preacher
Mentioned this earlier, but I got wind of the stats (I met Ed!) at Elite Meet yesterday .. and the OP's numbers are way off. Not for me to say by how much, but best bet (for anyone) is to stay the customer.
Little less salt .. where's the blummin' pepper at anyway? (Tabasco! ... mmmm).
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prove that this sales is through steam with actual numbers not half baked ones
The Steam launcher does not replace Frontier's launcher, it merely launches a Steam version of Frontier's launcher, the runtime of which is the only metric captured by the concurrent user statistics. That would include game update time and downloading/updating of alternative run modes, as well as Frontier launcher idle time in addition to any in-game time.
As I have said before (both in this thread and elsewhere), the Steam concurrent user stats are (at best) a poor measure of popularity of any given game... there are too many invalid assumptions being made when using the Steam statistics in that way.
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I wonder how many of the 1 million ED owners you reckon took part in betas. 20,000? 50,000?
Still that's an insignificant 5%.
Yeah I think you can be pretty sure players of ED on PS4 aren't using Steam... since ED on PS4 is not even out yet.
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I'm sorry to see that you have chosen to continue to lie about what other players have said and then try to troll them.
ur steam numbers r wrong either way cause of them
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the only troll here is u and ur friends useing half baked false numbers
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Anyway .. I MET ED .. (and Dav! Awesome)
That's cheese .. AND pickle more or less?
That's cheese .. AND pickle more or less?
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Steam Spy says 991,932 ED players are registered on Steam.
You're saying that's wrong?
It's just not the whole picture.
(small sample polling also predicted no Brexit .. or not, as the case may be) [up]
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