What does this data mean to you?

[Chaparral]

Steam chart

The highlighted peak user figure occurred during the skimmer gold rush.

Yes, I understand it is a Wednesday today.

 

[Bomba Luigi]

Dunno what you are trying to show, its not an outliner peak the up and down goes pretty steady.

 

[Adhock]

It means a bunch of people heard how easy it was to make money in a game with no effort. Now they're learning that the game is never going to always be that easy.

Elite Dangerous is just like that graph. Some days it rains, some days it rains money. The trick is surviving when it's the former. And now we're seeing who the weak ones are.

 

[Crank Larson]

Steam charts don't mean a lot to me. If I enjoy a game, I'll play it. I see enough other people in-game that I know there are still other people playing it, so I assume that it isn't only me who likes it.

 

[zombieapocalypse]

Steam charts don't mean a lot to me. If I enjoy a game, I'll play it. I see enough other people in-game that I know there are still other people playing it, so I assume that it isn't only me who likes it.

According to these forums, there are only four people who play ED any more; five if you include my cat watching me play and sometimes pushing my mouse

 

[Crank Larson]

According to these forums, there are only four people who play ED any more; five if you include my cat watching me play and sometimes pushing my mouse

I guess the rest of you travel around as much as me then, and we just keep bumping into each other.

 

[zombieapocalypse]

I guess the rest of you travel around as much as me then, and we just keep bumping into each other.

If we bump into each other, that's probably the cat again with the mouse

 

[smiths121]

People play at the weekends.

Cheers
Simon

 

[Chaparral]

If I was the boss of a business, and on a given Sunday I had 14,000 customers, and two weeks later I had 7000 customers, I would be asking who screwed up, where can I find a more qualified replacement, and what can I do to get those customers back. I wouldn't be saying, boy I'm sure glad we shed those 7000 weaklings.

Keep in mind this is just a few weeks after a major patch. It's like you launched a huge marketing campaign, or released a movie, or put out the next year's model car and you lost customers.

I'm not even close to saying ED is dying, I'm saying the last two weeks represent some poor choices/poor product based on the active user evidence.

 

[DaMorgs]

Also remember that Steam numbers are nt a full representation of actual players. I'm not on Steam. Neither are most of my friends. What percentage of players are Steam is anyones guess. I'm sure there's a stat out there though.