It's time for a steamcharts thread!

You know, you can compare last month numbers with the numbers from 2018, so you can do a smart thing.

Numbers are decreasing, the peak of all time is 18k reached in 2015.

And you are forgeting to mention about the last sale offer too, i never see a sale like this -70% (I have paid $14,39 for another the elite dangerous commander edition).

So know we have less players than 2018 at same month, even considering the number of people that purchased the game in this insane sales offer.

Don't want to be announcing nothing, but this is a clear mensage from the majority of the playerbase that seems that never get heard.

I love the new mining and exploration, like almost everything about the beyond excluding the mission servers (That made missions and disconections even worse) and the changes on the BGS, since alot of people are already reporting issues with the new BGS system on the BETA and they pushed it, even with all those reports.

Dunno if there is much to do now tho, they already made the damage pushing non-cocked things on live - maybe the salvation is this big patch comming 2020, dunno.

This is sad actually, most of you really dont care and this why you all white-knight and defend some wrong moves from FDEV, and this is result.

Ruining the missions board has a bad move.
Messing with the OLD BGS before testing and implementing a better one (that are working) is bad move.
And the player drop is only a consequence, alerted by me and another ones way ago when they announce those changes.

But im really tired to try to show the obvius to people, if you can't read a chart and get the obvius conclusions, sorry man...

EDIT: Seems like the 30 days avarage droped -3.79%, We can round this to 2.8% maybe?
 
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Playercount was higher this time last year because 3.0 had released just a few days prior.

27/02/2018
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/409060-Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-One-3-0

Launched at the end of the month, the beyond players just got 1 day on feb. this is not suficcient to increase the av.player numbers by 2k.

In march/2018, that REALLY have the 3.0 people comming get a AVARAGE of 6,304 and the chapter 4 update (dec 2018) get a avarage of 6,342.

Since the chapter 4 launch the numbers are decreasing really fast. (The avarage, this is the number that means something) - last year took 2 months to ED lose 2k players, now ED lose 2k in a month, a drop like that just happened one time on ED history in January 2016.
 
27/02/2018
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/409060-Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-One-3-0

Launched at the end of the month, the beyond players just got 1 day on feb. this is not suficcient to increase the av.player numbers by 2k.

In march/2018, that REALLY have the 3.0 people comming get a AVARAGE of 6,304 and the chapter 4 update (dec 2018) get a avarage of 6,342.

Since the chapter 4 launch the numbers are decreasing really fast. (The avarage, this is the number that means something) - last year took 2 months to ED lose 2k players, now ED lose 2k in a month, a drop like that just happened one time on ED history in January 2016.

Right, this time last year the most recent major update had released seven days prior. This year, the last major update has been out for nearly three months. As for your last point, I have no idea where you're getting those numbers. Here are the Steam player counts from the beginning of 2018 to now:

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The two tallest spikes being 3.0 and 3.3. It's pretty clear which one had a quicker fall-off, just at a glance.
 
Ever since i noticed that euro truck simulator 2 has on average double the amount of players than the spikes elite has, i stopped thinking this was a valid metric. We're not even close to interesting..

Elite looks like its back to 4.5 now, which is its about its normal average? That would be American Truck Simulator :)
 
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Ever since i noticed that euro truck simulator 2 has on average double the amount of players than the spikes elite has, i stopped thinking this was a valid metric. We're not even close to interesting..

Elite looks like its back to 4.5 now, which is its about its normal average? That would be American Truck Simulator :)
ETS2 had 6m Steam owners in July 2018, based on Steam achievement data harvest. Including retail sales, it had sold 6.5m copies total by Feb 2019. ATS has sold 1.5m total.

Meanwhile SteamSpy estimated Elite Dangerous had 1.3m Steam owners, prior to the website losing its access to Steam Users' ownership data (GDPR changes) from which it made its estimations. Elite Dangerous doesn't have Steam achievements, so wasn't listed in the July 2018 Steam data harvest. FDev said last month that Elite Dangerous had sold 3m copies across all platforms.

I think Elite's known playerbase stats compare favourably with ETS2, and both are fantastic games.
 
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Time for an update as the OP wanted us to know how important Steam Charts are in gauging the current health of the game: second month of declines, and about 30% below the levels last year at this time. Hmm. Guess that says, what, that the game continues to decline as any 4 year old game should? I think so.

As the OP themselves said "Now if these numbers were anything to go by..." :cool: How do those socks taste?

February 2019 4,643.3
April 2016 2,841.6

It's awesome how you manage to miss the point.

PS
Why should I eat my socks? Everything is exactly like I predicted:

Nothing out of the ordinary. Player numbers always go up with a major release and they will go down again in a few weeks until we see the next major update.

What is way more interesting is that Elite maintains a pretty stable playerbase even 4 years after release, which is a pretty good sign that the future of the game isn't over any time soon.
 
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https://steamcharts.com/app/359320

November 2015 4,164.2 -870.3 -17.29% 18,039 <-- This is the peak of all time.

OMG, and there i go again, teaching a probably 30+ old man to read a chart.

We aren't talking about peak numbers for obvious reasons.

EDIT

Let's see if the player base is in decline according to steamcharts.

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Nope, doesn't look like it.

(March 2015 is based on the rest of the year since data doesn't exist)
 
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