to avoid becoming a supervillan called dr. doom:
-close odyssey
-boot horizons
-enjoy
-close odyssey
-boot horizons
-enjoy
On those mostly negative reviews on steam
- Thread starter BluStar
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First, it's the wrong graph, it shows peak players instead of average players (which would make much more sense).How about more recent statistic with out June 2020 Fleet Carrier release.
7 months of maintaining over 10k and all erased in 1.5 month of Odyssey release.
Aren't graphs beautiful?
Second, we are ignoring factors like lockdowns, summer, steam sales, etc.
Third, fleet carriers received just as much negativity as Odyssey, which suggests that the correlation between bad updates and concurrent players isn't as accurate as people want it to be.
Fourth, there is no way to know if Steamcharts shows a reduction of the player base or a reduction of play time per player.
In the end it's just clear that the game is in a much better state than it was in 2014, contrary to all doom sayers.
I wouldn't be surprised if the numbers go up again at some point. Actually, I very much expect it.
I've been playing Horizons fine. And will be making the most of it while I still can. What is broken in Horizons to stop you playing?
I dont get the 'we' part. There is no 'we' between you and us. You said so yourself.
I'm not on Steam!
I don't count!
The game is doomed! Doomed!
I don't count!
The game is doomed! Doomed!
Please they are not accurate at all. We had a pandemic starting in the past year, making a lot more people play than "normal". Right now, a lot of countries start enjoying a loosening of the rules, and vaccines, allowing people to enjoy outdoors a lot more, as they used to do before the pandemic.How about more recent statistic with out June 2020 Fleet Carrier release.
7 months of maintaining over 10k and all erased in 1.5 month of Odyssey release.
Aren't graphs beautiful?
I am all for posting charts and trends, but be accurate people.
This is the impact on the pandemic on ED, and why you need to check pre-covid number for more accuracy.
As you can see, the part in red is much higher than what is used to be, barring expansion/big patch release. This is the Covid effect on player population.
The chart is certainly going down, but it's compounded by the summer (the biggest "dead" period for games, usually) and restrictions ease+vaccine.
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Ok. Don't play what was paid for.
"Just wait and hope".
Can I refund from you in the meantime? I promise I will give you the money back once ODY can be played without me getting motion sick from the low framerates.
I promise... just wait and see.
Yeah - the "back to the office" crowd who can't play ED at work so they cruise the Forums posting drivel!
No it's not a Pandemic. I covered it in another topic. That spike in October/November was Free Horizon, Free game on Epic and Hype for Odyssey.
As for early 2020 that was Beta or Alpha for Fleet Carriers and the release.
The fun part about Fleet Carrier - People left Odyssey faster than they did during Fleet Carrier release.
8 weeks to reach 7k for Fleet Carrier.
6 Weeks to reach 7k for Odyssey. - and Odyssey had much more players.
Free EPIC game increasing STEAM player ? That's odd.
It is the pandemic. And a hype for odyssey didn't last for A YEAR.
Stop trying to make me spit my coffee!
Its not odd. People can link both platform. And the spike happend on the exact same day and the following when Epic gave ED for free.
First odyssey trailer came in June 2020 just before Fleet Carrier release. Yea, they knew how to pull Marketing back than, unlike today.
I would actually consider refunding you if you promise to never come back. Just give me your bank details.
If you were right the same pattern should be seen with other FDev games. Though, that's not the case. Numbers for Planet Zoo are clearly up and numbers for Planet Coaster are slightly up:
Planet Zoo is currently on sale and just received a new DLC.
Steam doesn't count non steam game in their chart. Link whatever you want it's not counted.
ED received a new DLC as well ...
Nuts - now why didn't I think about that!
Oh yeah - I have problems finding time to play with one account!
Steam player statistics ONLY count how many people on Steam currently have the game running. When i linked the game to Steam it counted as runing on Steam when you launch it, so it was added to the charts.
Any more theories to debunk?