I think this Player drop just illustrates the general dislike of Xfire. I know Xfire crashes 100% of my programs so I uninstalled it. Also, no one in my internet friends list or immediate friends circle uses Xfire because it's a sub par niche program

junkacc

99 Posts

August 21 2010 17:25 GMT

#44

You guys:

a) don't know how statistics work
b) are in denial

Toboe

United States276 Posts

August 21 2010 17:26 GMT

#45

As others have pointed out, xfire isn't required or even related to sc2.

The title of this thread easily could have been "SC2 causing big drop in xfire usage" and that is an equally valid conclusion with the 'statistics' provided.

According to the profiles that sc2ranks.com has, there are more than 10 times the number of just bronze ladder players than there are people who use xfire and sc2 daily, not even considering the other leagues or people who haven't qualified for ladder yet.

Gedrah

465 Posts

August 21 2010 17:26 GMT

#46

This could instead just mean that xfire isn't doing so hot, you know. Based purely upon the data presented, that is.

Condor

Netherlands188 Posts

August 21 2010 17:36 GMT

#47

Could also be that a lot of people (like me) like all sorts of games, not purely RTS, and pick up new games. I would be very interested if there is another RTS that over the same period has become more popular.

But in general, of course the popularity dies down. What did you expect? That now everybody and their mom will see the light and worship SC2? It is just another game, except for a small minority of all gamers which happens to post here.

How replayable is the campaign? How great is the story? People will stay and play multiplayer if it adds something to the game and if they like it.

For a resurgence, we will need it to become a bonafide spectator sport, although there will be some increases upon expansion releases. Otherwise, obviously this dropoff makes perfect sense.

NonY

8748 Posts

August 21 2010 17:36 GMT

#48

On August 22 2010 02:25 junkacc wrote:
You guys:

a) don't know how statistics work
b) are in denial

No statistics have been calculated. There's only data. People have brought up good reasons why the data can be interpreted in more than one way. We don't have enough information to conclusively interpret the data.

T0fuuu

Australia2275 Posts

August 21 2010 17:39 GMT

#49

cos you cant loiter in chat channels and theres generally not that much to do if ur just facing random teams in team ladder. still see lots of ppl on my friends list playing but seems everyone is doing custom melee instead of team ladder now cos its more social.

Cofo

United States1388 Posts

August 21 2010 17:42 GMT

#50

At least in the US, schools and colleges are starting up again. People have less time to play. This is not surprising.

EnderCN

United States499 Posts

August 21 2010 17:44 GMT

#51

Every game I play posts this same exact thing so I'm pretty sure it is completely natural for a game to peak on xfire on release week unless it is some game that takes people by surprise so it has poor initial sales but great word of mouth.

Ghad

Norway2551 Posts

August 21 2010 17:45 GMT

#52

I dont know anyone who uses xfire.

goswser

United States3548 Posts

August 21 2010 17:47 GMT

#53

The drop is probably due to both school starting around now and people having less time, along with the obvious drop from people playing it a ton at the beginning and then playing it a bit less. The graph is completely normal, it rises up on weekends, then falls during the week.

floor exercise

Canada5847 Posts

August 21 2010 17:47 GMT

#54

If the game does drop in popularity it will because of the horrendous custom map system. That's what the majority of people played on bnet, and bnet2 has completely failed in that regard

cocosoft

Sweden1068 Posts

August 21 2010 17:48 GMT

#55

On August 22 2010 00:46 G3nXsiS wrote:
I think its just casual gamers who go into sc2 and finnish the campaign, try the multiplayer and get destroyed by the HUGE starcraft 1 fanbase and then decide that they are too far behind in skill level and just quit.

HUGE starcraft 1 fanbase? Yeah there's the problem... if the fanbase was so huge, then we wouldn't see this dropping number despite the predicted casuals leaving the game.

Klapdout

United States282 Posts

August 21 2010 17:50 GMT

#56

Many people might use xfire early on to let all their friends know they're playing sc2. I did this with steam, launched SC2 using steam for a good 2 weeks now that I've got my steam friends added I don't bother.

StormWeapon

United States159 Posts

August 21 2010 17:51 GMT

#57

On August 22 2010 01:51 farseerdk wrote:

Show nested quote +

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

Here, most classes start monday.

Perkins1752

Germany214 Posts

August 21 2010 17:55 GMT

#58

Starcraft 2 is not finished yet. Singleplayer is fine, multiplayer is meh. Without a big ums-hit i don't see those numbers rising again until next expansion.

Fzero

United States1503 Posts

August 21 2010 17:57 GMT

#59

I think its pretty clear that most people aren't into multiplayer RTS. Lots of people bought the game because its a blizzard title and everyone got hype.

We're all a rare breed.