Steam Charts Record Low Sept 6 = 1545 "Players"

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I think the message is don't trust Steam Charts for accurate statistics.

The early GalNet report was posted less than an hour before the 6th (UTC time). That wasn't enough time to reach the entire community and kill everyone's enthusiasm. Many, many people were still playing and traveling to the Gnosis right up until downtime at 7:00am, and after downtime, the servers were so slammed with people trying to get back on that I couldn't get past the main menu until an hour later.

Now, it's obvious that the Cone Sector event was a failure for the most part. But there's just no way that the 6th had a record low of players. A record low happens when nothing is going on, and the 6th was probably the most eventful day in ED since the CMDR Salome thing. If any day was going to bring a new record low in players, it would be today, the 7th, because now everybody knows what happened to the Gnosis without needing to log in.

Ignorance is bliss. The Steam Charts tell facts. There is a reason the company created such a thing - it's certainly not a fan toy or fiction which is what seems to be implied. Frankly, your response suggests you've 'drank the Koolaid' and don't want to look at data without bias.
 
Looks like a new record was set for Elite and the fewest ever players online according to the Steam Charts with only 1545 players. :eek: And that was likely a bunch of hard-core, multi-pip'd players so it's likely even fewer actual 'bodies'. I think there is a message there. Gnosis anyone?
The 1,545 that were online during the Thursday morning maintenance cycle, which was extended with the 3.2.1 update being deployed?

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That's odd - there are usually many thousands of CMDRs playing Elite Dangerous when the servers are down [haha]


Btw, the record low during live uptime occurred during April 2016, with ~1,350 online:

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Interestingly, according to Steamcharts that same April 2016 was also the record-low Monthly Average Concurrent, at 2,842 Steam CMDRs.

Meanwhile, the last 30 days has a "Monthly" Average Concurrent of 3,342 Steam CMDRs, the 7th lowest "month" on record.


Sometimes I wonder if people are able to do competent research anymore :rolleyes:

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I think the message is don't trust Steam Charts for accurate statistics.

The early GalNet report was posted less than an hour before the 6th (UTC time). That wasn't enough time to reach the entire community and kill everyone's enthusiasm. Many, many people were still playing and traveling to the Gnosis right up until downtime at 7:00am, and after downtime, the servers were so slammed with people trying to get back on that I couldn't get past the main menu until an hour later.

Now, it's obvious that the Cone Sector event was a failure for the most part. But there's just no way that the 6th had a record low of players. A record low happens when nothing is going on, and the 6th was probably the most eventful day in ED since the CMDR Salome thing. If any day was going to bring a new record low in players, it would be today, the 7th, because now everybody knows what happened to the Gnosis without needing to log in.

Ignorance is bliss. The Steam Charts tell facts. There is a reason the company created such a thing - it's certainly not a fan toy or fiction which is what seems to be implied. Frankly, your response suggests you've 'drank the Koolaid' and don't want to look at data without bias.

It tells jack all.

Who's Jack?
 
PS4 isn't included in that.
Xbox isn't included in that
Oculus isn't included in that
I (since I don't play thru steam) am not included in that.

Steam has said their stats are useless.

Given all of this, WHY do people keep bringing up Steam charts?

Its simple. Kubicide has always hated this game, & so will use any figures he can find to confim his bias about "the game dying".

If you ask me, I suspect he is a Star Citizen supporter, & he needs this to distract himself from his own preferred game still being in alpha.
 
On the plus side as only 2.8% board flip going by the other thread, only 43 players are going to affected by the new mission server in 3.3.
 
How many times does it have to be said? ... A lot of players do not play though Steam? .. It seems to be an alien concept to some.
 
The 1,545 that were online during the Thursday morning maintenance cycle, which was extended with the 3.2.1 update being deployed?



That's odd - there are usually many thousands of CMDRs playing Elite Dangerous when the servers are down [haha]


Btw, the record low during live uptime occurred during April 2016, with ~1,350 online:



Interestingly, according to Steamcharts that same April 2016 was also the record-low Monthly Average Concurrent, at 2,842 Steam CMDRs.

Meanwhile, the last 30 days has a "Monthly" Average Concurrent of 3,342 Steam CMDRs, the 7th lowest "month" on record.


Sometimes I wonder if people are able to do competent research anymore :rolleyes:

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LOL
 
Put aside YOUR biases. The Steam Charts tell a story which is real based on the data they collect. This Gnosis failure was exactly that. It upset customers. Don't ignore this.

So I am not allowed to be bias FOR the game, but you can be bias AGAINST the game - missing a bit of logic there mate lol
 
You know, whenever I see a "steams chart" thread, I'm tempted to buy Elite: Dangerous on Steam...

then I remember I prefer to buy games directly from the developer's site when possible. ;)
 
The 1,545 that were online during the Thursday morning maintenance cycle, which was extended with the 3.2.1 update being deployed?



That's odd - there are usually many thousands of CMDRs playing Elite Dangerous when the servers are down [haha]


Btw, the record low during live uptime occurred during April 2016, with ~1,350 online:



Interestingly, according to Steamcharts that same April 2016 was also the record-low Monthly Average Concurrent, at 2,842 Steam CMDRs.

Meanwhile, the last 30 days has a "Monthly" Average Concurrent of 3,342 Steam CMDRs, the 7th lowest "month" on record.


Sometimes I wonder if people are able to do competent research anymore :rolleyes:

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Lol so you're basically saying there's been no maintenance cycles up until now. Okay...


Or, or, your saying this game is in fact in maintenance mode, and there was a maintenance cycle occurring. Okay.
 
So I am not allowed to be bias FOR the game, but you can be bias AGAINST the game - missing a bit of logic there mate lol

Well, the bias here, if i need to point it out, is that the numbers are not mine. Shocking, yes, but true. The numbers are from this third party thing which sells games to people and has software which logs and tracks the users. Yeah.
 
Well, the bias here, if i need to point it out, is that the numbers are not mine. Shocking, yes, but true. The numbers are from this third party thing which sells games to people and has software which logs and tracks the users. Yeah.

You are missing the context of those numbers.
 
Well, the bias here, if i need to point it out, is that the numbers are not mine. Shocking, yes, but true. The numbers are from this third party thing which sells games to people and has software which logs and tracks the users. Yeah.

I understand that, but you have already stated that if the numbers were showing an increase in player participation you would discount the stats or not report them here. So the only bias is yours and yours alone, you only choose to disseminate information that meets your paradigm of the game.
 
You are missing the context of those numbers.
Actually, no. But it is hilarious seeing the knights come galloping out. Fact here is that, yet again, we have another anti-customer event. And the numbers show it. You can try to defend it and excuse it and talk it away. But your too late. History has recorded it.

The point of this thread won't change. As of today, or really as of yesterday September 6th, a new record low was set for the Steam accounting metrics. You fans cam go ahead and argue amongst yourselves as to what this means. But it won't change this fact. Someone else posted that maybe there was one other day - one other day - where this number was lower. So if so, okay, this means the game has sunk down to that one other day. Good news? No. But rejoice I guess.
 
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