Elite Dangerous (Steam) just set a new All Time record for concurrent CMDRs, beating previous highest in Nov 2015

I am a non-steam player. I might be the only one left :unsure:
My point was, that we don't know it. Without official numbers from FDev we're literally in the black. I'm just pointing toward general gaming population preferences, which may or may not apply to the forum population ;-) So being dismissive of steam numbers is as wrong as treating them as single source of truth. We simply don't know. But it can be used for gauging trends, and given that Braben is always Braggin' [see what I did there? :p] about steam sales whenever a game lands in the top-lists on Steam, I'd still lean towards steam charts instead of whatever obscure fdev platform a subset of people here use. And we need to remember that you can purchase the game on Oculus Store too, and Oculus has a lead in PCVR headsets iirc. So another platform not counting to stats, possibly. IDK if FDev's using oculus native sdk or going through SteamVR, I'm sure someone here can provide insight.
 
"Suuure, the previous dozen times I was comically wrong about the game dying any day now, but this time I'm correct!"

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I guess you didn't get the fallout 4 reference. It also refers to the fact that everything dies in the end.
 
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This works so well they should just stay in permanent alpha beta and never release anything.... never been done before! :sneaky:
An alternative take is : They should keep publishing things that will be available in the future at great cost - especially announce upcoming betas where the snapshot is probably yet to be taken, and having the funds will give access to the big new space truck ...
 
Everyone be grinding for fleet carriers... congratulations I guess 😐 . Shame we can't have some deeper gameplay loops though.. those numbers would be MUCH higher then.
 
I hope the Frontier Elite team are settling down to some celebratory drinks this evening. Everything seems to be perfect -

Oddesey announced to great applaud
Fleet carriers released after successful beta period

33% store deal bringing in lots of ARX money

Player base at new record figure

Steam reviews are "very positive"
 
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