Popularity of Elite one month after release

Hilight · Feb 10, 2015

Of all the things that ED must do, two of the most vital are to attract attention for itself in the gaming world, and more importantly, it must attract and keep users. As as rough metric for how well Elite Dangerous is doing on these fronts, I took a quick look at the stats on ED's Facebook page--- It currently has right around 101,500 'likes.'

In comparison, Star Trek Online, a Sci-fi space game whose legacy practically everyone on the planet will recognize, has been around for years and has about 268,000 'likes.' The Facebook page for Star Citizen has attracted around 76,200 likes and Eve Online, another Sc-fi space game that has been around for quite some time has attracted around 251,000 'likes.' Judging by these metrics, I'd say that Elite probably isn't doing to shabby one month after release....

iolair · Feb 10, 2015

I'm a facebook 'like' but haven't bought the game yet ... too busy to play at the moment, and with what I've heard about features I'll probably hold off until 1.2 at any rate.

zombieapocalypse · Feb 10, 2015

How scientific. Seriously I don't think you can make any conclusions from Facebook likes. Number of purchases, along with maximum and average of numbers of people playing each day would tell you a lot more.

Shear · Feb 10, 2015

Hilight said:
Of all the things that ED must do, two of the most vital are to attract attention for itself in the gaming world, and more importantly, it must attract and keep users. As as rough metric for how well Elite Dangerous is doing on these fronts, I took a quick look at the stats on ED's Facebook page--- It currently has right around 101,500 'likes.'

In comparison, Star Trek Online, a Sci-fi space game whose legacy practically everyone on the planet will recognize, has been around for years and has about 268,000 'likes.' The Facebook page for Star Citizen has attracted around 76,200 likes and Eve Online, another Sc-fi space game that has been around for quite some time has attracted around 251,000 'likes.' Judging by these metrics, I'd say that Elite probably isn't doing to shabby one month after release....

Alot of these likes haven't bought the game, some have but no longer play, some who play haven't liked it on Facebook either (such as myself).
How many people liked Start Trek online because they like Star Trek not because they like the game. I don't think these numbers mean anything at all.

Privata · Feb 10, 2015

I meet more and more CMDRs during my travels in the universe and my friends who play with me just love the game more than ever.
My belife is that the hardcore will stay whiles the rest will come and go with patches and content expansion. it may never be as popular as SC but it will always be better

Hilight · Feb 10, 2015

zombieapocalypse said:
How scientific.

Personally, I'll not underestimate the impact of social media in the promotion of practically everything that is being sold these days. I suppose that if you had stats on the user base of the games I listed, you'd find a rough correlation between the number of page 'likes' on Facebook and the number of game buyers--- at a ratio of perhaps 3 to 5 users per 'like.' It is astounding what big data is able to figure out these days on the basis of things like facebook comments and twitter posts

firstname_lastname · Feb 10, 2015

In my house ED is very popular, with a staggering 33% uptake.

Devil's Refugee · Feb 10, 2015

Hilight said:
Personally, I'll not underestimate the impact of social media in the promotion of practically everything that is being sold these days. I suppose that if you had stats on the user base of the games I listed, you'd find a rough correlation between the number of page 'likes' on Facebook and the number of game buyers--- at a ratio of perhaps 3 to 5 users per 'like.' It is astounding what big data is able to figure out these days on the basis of things like facebook comments and twitter posts

Ok so you are trolling because you've mentioned social media and big data with absolutely no clue on what you're talking about. You picked the wrong thread to show up your lack of knowledge there mate.

Phier · Feb 10, 2015

Likes only really matter, I guess, if people unlike once they stop doing/following something. My wife is a facebook type, and her feed is full of crap that she never bothered to unlike. A better way to look at likes is interest in something. Even if I'm not happy with ED and I were a facebook type (I'm not) I'd still "like" the page hoping to see something about content.

babelfisch · Feb 10, 2015

zombieapocalypse said:
How scientific. Seriously I don't think you can make any conclusions from Facebook likes. Number of purchases, along with maximum and average of numbers of people playing each day would tell you a lot more.

Just as scientific as stating Elite is dead and everyone left already due to lacking content, overall boredom and missing dev conversation.

PS forgot to mention the python nerf, as it is the ultimate game breaker...

BlackReign · Feb 10, 2015

Hilight said:
Of all the things that ED must do, two of the most vital are to attract attention for itself in the gaming world, and more importantly, it must attract and keep users. As as rough metric for how well Elite Dangerous is doing on these fronts, I took a quick look at the stats on ED's Facebook page--- It currently has right around 101,500 'likes.'

In comparison, Star Trek Online, a Sci-fi space game whose legacy practically everyone on the planet will recognize, has been around for years and has about 268,000 'likes.' The Facebook page for Star Citizen has attracted around 76,200 likes and Eve Online, another Sc-fi space game that has been around for quite some time has attracted around 251,000 'likes.' Judging by these metrics, I'd say that Elite probably isn't doing to shabby one month after release....

Facebook likes is not a valid "metric". I play the game and never "liked" ED on Facebook. And Eve is old as dirt, and I'm sure it's popularity is alot higher than the like count on FB.

TriumphANT · Feb 10, 2015

Hilight said:
Of all the things that ED must do, two of the most vital are to attract attention for itself in the gaming world, and more importantly, it must attract and keep users. As as rough metric for how well Elite Dangerous is doing on these fronts, I took a quick look at the stats on ED's Facebook page--- It currently has right around 101,500 'likes.'

In comparison, Star Trek Online, a Sci-fi space game whose legacy practically everyone on the planet will recognize, has been around for years and has about 268,000 'likes.' The Facebook page for Star Citizen has attracted around 76,200 likes and Eve Online, another Sc-fi space game that has been around for quite some time has attracted around 251,000 'likes.' Judging by these metrics, I'd say that Elite probably isn't doing to shabby one month after release....

The average age of Elite Dangerous players is approximately 71, therefore none of them use Facebook. The "likes" are from script kiddies, cheats and griefers ONLY. They fire a dumbfire at a station, and then have the audacity to switch to Facebook to hit "like" while the station attempts to destroy their infinite hull. Despicable.

Hadron-Higgs-Boson · Feb 10, 2015

Hilight said:
Personally, I'll not underestimate the impact of social media in the promotion of practically everything that is being sold these days. I suppose that if you had stats on the user base of the games I listed, you'd find a rough correlation between the number of page 'likes' on Facebook and the number of game buyers--- at a ratio of perhaps 3 to 5 users per 'like.' It is astounding what big data is able to figure out these days on the basis of things like facebook comments and twitter posts

I think you're more likly to find ED is flown by all us old farts who dont waste time on your facebook nonsense other than to keep an eye on what our kids are up to

BlackReign · Feb 10, 2015

I would suspect the numbers are probably decent, but not good. If so, FD would have bragged about it by now. But given the state of the game, I suspect there's a small influx of new gamers, and a small exodus of experienced players.

If the new gamers read the forums before buying, they'll probably stay away or "wait and see". If the new gamers go to one of the so-called "professional review" sites, they would probably buy the game. Almost all of the reviews on ED out there are misrepresenting the facts about the state of the game.

kelticfury · Feb 10, 2015

facebook likes. lol.

So many people avoid facebook like the plague. Not a valid metric.

Hilight · Feb 10, 2015

Devil's Refugee said:
Ok so you are trolling because you've mentioned social media and big data with absolutely no clue on what you're talking about. You picked the wrong thread to show up your lack of knowledge there mate.

You don't know me very well do you ..... here is an example of research on large online data sets: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140728094453.htm

While the article I listed doesn't have a great deal to do with facebook likes, it does give a good indication of the sort of things data gathered online can reveal

TriumphANT said:
The average age of Elite Dangerous players is approximately 71, therefore none of them use Facebook. The "likes" are from script kiddies, cheats and griefers ONLY. They fire a dumbfire at a station, and then have the audacity to switch to Facebook to hit "like" while the station attempts to destroy their infinite hull. Despicable.

I'm 55 and I use Facebook every day...a friend of mine is in his 20's plays ED quite often...we've both talked about ED on social media more than once..... so much for the average age of ED players being 71 and so much for the average social media user wearing diapers

Devil's Refugee · Feb 10, 2015

Hilight said:
You don't know me very well do you ..... here is an example of research on large online data sets: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140728094453.htm

While the article I listed doesn't have a great deal to do with facebook likes, it does give a good indication of the sort of things data gathered online can reveal

I'm 55 and I use Facebook every day...a friend of mine is in his 20's plays ED quite often...we've both talked about ED on social media more than once..... so much for the average age of ED players being 71 and so much for the average social media user wearing diapers

Your conclusions are so wrong though. For someone who has done serious research counting Facebook "Likes" as an indicator is utter nonsense. Not to mention the fact Elite Dangerous has been going a lot longer than one month.

Hilight · Feb 10, 2015

Devil's Refugee said:
Your conclusions are so wrong though. For someone who has done serious research counting Facebook "Likes" as an indicator is utter nonsense. Not to mention the fact Elite Dangerous has been going a lot longer than one month.

Here are three articles indicating some of the information that can be gathered by examining facebook posts in particular....once again none of them have to do with facebook 'likes' specifically --I only use them to indicate the sort of information that can be gathered by examining social media activity and as an indication that the impact of social media activity should not be underestimated

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140911130056.htm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140312181911.htm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150115122111.htm

Phier · Feb 10, 2015

I base how popular a game is on how much erotic fan fiction (like there is any other kind) and rule 34's are made.

oRGy · Feb 10, 2015

Here's an interesting comparison:

http://www.google.de/trends/explore...line, star citizen&date=1/2012 37m&cmpt=q&tz=