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dhe95
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States1213 Posts
August 21 2010 16:25 GMT
#21
Most blizzard games has never required or even asked you to install XFire, so most people with XFire on their computers would have come from a different game, likely FPS, because I see most FPS games ask to install XFire. So we have a large amount of FPS players playing the games or a few days (campaign most likely), then probably going back to their FPS because they show no interest in multiplayer.
uSiN
Profile Joined January 2009
United States208 Posts
August 21 2010 16:28 GMT
#22
On August 22 2010 00:44 Assault_1 wrote:
I dont understand why league of legends is played more than sc2

It's free and a lot of casual players play the game. Its one of those games easy to pick up and not play for awhile and then pick back up again. There is actually pretty significantly large TL chat room there about 50+ people average. Might even be higher now haven't played in a while.

Also not many people use xfire. I don't and I know my friends don't so... I used to use xfire long time ago but most in game chatting gotten a lot better and with good computers you can just alt tab and see your aim / msn / yahoo messenger w/e you use.
.-.
PokePill
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1048 Posts
August 21 2010 16:29 GMT
#23
They are going to lose all of their "casual" gamers very quickly with this horrible UMS system and even worse random teams vs. arranged teams. It's already becoming increasingly hard to find games, because there's almost no one left (outside 1v1) 3 weeks after release.

It's too late.
c.Deadly
Profile Joined March 2010
United States545 Posts
August 21 2010 16:30 GMT
#24
On August 22 2010 00:56 junkacc wrote:
XFire is not a good measure of total players but it is a good measure of trends. It's the same statistical method Nielson uses for TV ratings, with a constant number of PCs having XFire installed, you can interpolate if the popularity of a game is going up or down.

This is a bad omen for SC2.


I don't see how this is a bad omen for SC2. The graph shows "Hours by Date", meaning the number of total hours xfire users are playing SC2. It makes sense that they play many hours when the game is first released, then don't play as much after they beat the campaign/return to school/get bored of the game. This seems pretty normal to me.
Piou
Profile Joined August 2010
Belgium415 Posts
August 21 2010 16:31 GMT
#25
Well, when you just bought a game, you try it but not everybody gets addicted, loads of people who play FPS might have played the solo, and then tried the multi, they got owned, they raged and went back to CoD... the game is nearly 1 month old now, isn't it ? It will drop at one point...
http://www.youtube.com/PiouStarcraft - http://www.facebook.com/pioustarcraft
thehitman
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
1105 Posts
August 21 2010 16:35 GMT
#26
Xfire doesn't count for shit, excuse my language. How many users really have xfire installed?

Its the stupidest way to count SC2 players and online SC2 trends.

SC2 can never decrease like that, because you are always online, even when playing SP campaign, challenges or against the AI.

So no, your post and xfire stats are totally absurd!
Seam
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States1093 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-21 16:39:50
August 21 2010 16:37 GMT
#27
I recently starting closing Xfire when playing SC2 since it hurts my performance. A few people I know have been doing the same.

Maybe that has something to do with it?

On August 22 2010 01:35 thehitman wrote:
Xfire doesn't count for shit, excuse my language. How many users really have xfire installed?



Checking the source,
"Xfire users playing per day
17,767 "

http://www.xfire.com/games/sc2/StarCraft_II/
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BrightLegacy
Profile Joined May 2010
United States56 Posts
August 21 2010 16:48 GMT
#28
Well this could mean any of three things.

1.Less people are playing starcraft in general, this could just be some of the people that tried muliplayer a few times, got destroyed, then tried custom maps for a while and have now gotten bored of those.

2. The type of people that have xfire installed are less likely to play a lot of starcraft, probably because their friends (that they are talking to on xfire) are playing other games and they dont want to be left out.

3. People with xfire are realizing that they get significantly more frames per second when they play with xfire off.
SwaY-
Profile Joined March 2009
Dominican Republic463 Posts
August 21 2010 16:49 GMT
#29
On August 22 2010 01:24 Ygz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 22 2010 00:47 shannn wrote:
I always see ~1million people online on bnet at minimum ...


As far I was aware, the amount of people on Bnet includes WoW + SC2.

Anyone have solid information on this?

pretty sure wow alone in their NA servers has more than a million on a shitty day.
Do it beautifully
Coach
Profile Joined February 2007
United States191 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-21 16:52:06
August 21 2010 16:51 GMT
#30
xfire sucks imo. its for only wow players & rpg girl players.
["Skill is earned by hardwork, not dreaming."]
farseerdk
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada504 Posts
August 21 2010 16:51 GMT
#31
On August 22 2010 01:12 hystorm wrote:
I think this is more in correlation with school starting than anything else.

School shouldn't be starting for another 2-3 weeks at least.
Perspective is merely an angle.
RaiderRob
Profile Joined March 2010
Netherlands377 Posts
August 21 2010 16:51 GMT
#32
I think number of SC2 matches played is a far more relevant statistic than people logged in to battlenet. As far as I could tell from memory that has been rising the past few weeks because people finished the campaign and started playing multiplayer.
People don't want freedom but fair leadership
shannn
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands2891 Posts
August 21 2010 16:54 GMT
#33
On August 22 2010 01:51 farseerdk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 22 2010 01:12 hystorm wrote:
I think this is more in correlation with school starting than anything else.

School shouldn't be starting for another 2-3 weeks at least.

School starts upcoming week for me (college) high schools probably in 2.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=6321864 Epic post.
Zapperkhan
Profile Joined October 2008
United States436 Posts
August 21 2010 16:54 GMT
#34
I unistalled XFire after they were sold off. Wouldn't be surprised if that had much of an effect.
synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
August 21 2010 16:55 GMT
#35
Most Xfire players are WoW/DotA (and HoN/LoL) players, it makes sense that they'd quit SCII after finishing the campaign.
:)
Donger
Profile Joined October 2009
United States147 Posts
August 21 2010 16:56 GMT
#36
Once SC2 starts producing good UMS and fixes the way you find custom games you will see that chart go back up.
Baarn
Profile Joined April 2010
United States2702 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-21 17:08:26
August 21 2010 16:56 GMT
#37
People still use xfire? You take a viewer hit using it cause some flash versions conflict making the stream unwatchable. Xfire to me isn't worth it because of that. So maybe people in general are catching on to this and using other services as a result.
There's no S in KT. :P
Hunch
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada336 Posts
August 21 2010 17:08 GMT
#38
this is just xfire and like who uses xfire lmao
I have a Hunch.770
eLiTe TaKeR
Profile Joined May 2010
Portugal17 Posts
August 21 2010 17:08 GMT
#39
You can't rate the entire sc2 population based on xfire.
That only proves xfire users are mostly casual players imo...
Tinsil
Profile Joined August 2010
19 Posts
August 21 2010 17:12 GMT
#40
Still.. It's statistics.. that said, this is merely the campaign which requires you to log in.. many people aren't interested in playing multiplayer all the time, but were drawn in to play the campaign
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