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~Matthias
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada56 Posts
August 22 2010 00:44 GMT
#101
A lot of gamers on Xfire play a lot of different games. Most of them probably went back to CoD, CSS, ect.

They will probably play periodically, and when friends are on.

Also keep in mind a lot of people don't have Xfire. Me included.
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Rinrun
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada3509 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-22 00:48:59
August 22 2010 00:48 GMT
#102
The summer fling with SC2 is coming to an end, when I logged onto xfire around release time all I saw was SC2 being played, it was being played by all my FPS and MMO friends - insane.
Now I log in and I see them going back to their original games, only the RTS players are playing SC2 now.
MBC/Liquid/TSM always.
Backpack
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States1776 Posts
August 22 2010 00:50 GMT
#103
On August 22 2010 09:48 Rinrun wrote:
The summer fling with SC2 is coming to an end, when I logged onto xfire around release time all I saw was SC2 being played, it was being played by all my FPS and MMO friends - insane.
Now I log in and I see them going back to their original games, only the RTS players are playing SC2 now.


Which makes sense.

xfire is hardly a good way to track statistics.
"You people need to just generally care a lot less about everything." -Zatic
Vedic
Profile Joined March 2008
United States582 Posts
August 22 2010 00:53 GMT
#104
There have been many reports of xfire causing issues with SC2 (usually involving streaming), so that's no surprise.
I tried to commit seppuku, but I accidentally committed bukkake.
dotFX
Profile Joined May 2010
United States131 Posts
August 22 2010 00:55 GMT
#105
School has been starting so that's definitely got something to do with it.
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FuryX
Profile Joined April 2010
Australia495 Posts
August 22 2010 01:33 GMT
#106
i dont even use xfire...most people might even have it off just to avoid any sort of problems arising during the game...
G3nXsiS
Profile Joined July 2009
United States656 Posts
August 22 2010 10:42 GMT
#107
On August 22 2010 00:52 Liquid`Tyler wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.

The matchmaking isn't that bad. Most people win around 50% of their matchmaking games. The people at the very very bottom of the ladder, who account for a very small minority, have significantly below 50%, just as the people at the very very top of the ladder have significantly above 50%.


Yeah thats true but I think its also because people see theres a huge learning curve in starcraft and many people are unwilling to put in alot of time into that.
Hope is the first step on the road to dissapointment
Arco
Profile Joined September 2009
United States2090 Posts
August 22 2010 10:46 GMT
#108
Xfire means nothing honestly.

It's all just a bunch of kids playing WoW/FPS games
mdb
Profile Blog Joined February 2003
Bulgaria4059 Posts
August 22 2010 12:13 GMT
#109
So who is playing SC2? The Nobel laureates?
Baarn
Profile Joined April 2010
United States2702 Posts
August 22 2010 13:05 GMT
#110
On August 22 2010 02:25 junkacc wrote:
You guys:

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


You didn't read my post obviously.
There's no S in KT. :P
Darkong
Profile Joined February 2010
United Kingdom418 Posts
August 22 2010 15:38 GMT
#111
Even if that trend was indicative of teh larger SC2 player base, only Blizzard know that for certain, its neither unusual nor something to worry about.

There's almost always a rush when something new is released followed by a tapering off period, it doesn't necessarily mean that lots of people have given up on SC2 (or whatever) just that they've worked it in amongst their other games, most likely after powering through the campaign and placement matches.

The normal cycle for products (I tried to draw a graph as an example but it sucked so apologies for the lack of visual aid here) is for a large pick-up to begin with followed by a significant fall, then another, smaller pick-up and stabalisation. Exception here are if the product tanks, or an extraodinary occurence (World of Warcraft is a good example here, didn't taper off just went up and up).

Besides, SC2 is not a short term project, Blizz obviously intend for it to be around a long time so figures over such a short period are not a cause for concern, its the figures between now and the release of the first expansion that will be significant.
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Auronz
Profile Joined April 2010
Brazil119 Posts
August 22 2010 16:17 GMT
#112
Most of those guys probably pirated the game anyway... Even the poor man's version didn't kill piracy last I heard here in Brazil, only the true nerds got ahold of either US or EU clients and we're not that many. Then again with that awful localization... But I digress, most of these people probably never logged into bnet to start with and just played their sad offline modes for a while.
Daudr
Profile Joined November 2009
Sweden275 Posts
August 22 2010 16:38 GMT
#113
Isn't school starting up around this time, here and there around the world? Could imagine that being the cause.
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psycow
Profile Joined October 2010
55 Posts
December 13 2010 03:34 GMT
#114
On August 22 2010 00:43 Piski wrote:
Not sure if this has been posted here before. Friend of mine just pointed out to me that SC2 online game statistics from xfire don't show very positive future for SC2. It's rapidly dropping which of course isn't good.

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Is this just the casual players doing the sp, trying the mp and then moving on or is there something to be worried about? Or is there just something I'm missing about the stat graph.

There are not much information on how the statistics are calculated so this maybe a bogus info but I thought I would post it if someone can clarify on it.

The link to the xfire page: http://www.xfire.com/games/sc2/StarCraft_II/


Update: 5 Months after release

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Deadlyhazard
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1177 Posts
December 13 2010 03:40 GMT
#115
I played for like 20 hours on the first 2 days. I haven't touched the game more than twice since.....not a melee type of player, just played for the SP. Custom maps haven't grown enough for me to take it over WC3.
Hark!
HoMM
Profile Joined July 2010
Estonia636 Posts
December 13 2010 03:41 GMT
#116
Interesting update to the thread.
Seems to me that the spikes are at weekends?

And the average has dropped down to 20k, while being 75k'ish 5 months ago. Damn.
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Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36402 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-13 03:52:33
December 13 2010 03:51 GMT
#117
This is only for xfire right? Do people even use that site a lot? They don't seem to be much more of a popular site than TL, unless I'm missing something. It's kind of like saying "Modern Warfare playtime is declining rapidly! Future doesn't look bright! Statistics from TeamLiquid.net."
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nVusZah
Profile Joined July 2010
United States64 Posts
December 13 2010 03:53 GMT
#118
I have many gamer friends and only ONE of them actually uses xfire. And he plays like 20 diff games so he's constantly switching around.
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wishbones
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada2600 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-13 03:56:24
December 13 2010 03:55 GMT
#119
On December 13 2010 12:51 Hot_Bid wrote:
This is only for xfire right? Do people even use that site a lot? They don't seem to be much more of a popular site than TL, unless I'm missing something. It's kind of like saying "Modern Warfare playtime is declining rapidly! Future doesn't look bright! Statistics from TeamLiquid.net."

that made me lol
edit: and i mean i actually ha ha ha'd that shit.
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Alou
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States3748 Posts
December 13 2010 03:56 GMT
#120
I wouldn't expect people to use Xfire with SC2. I used it in Call of Duty because I needed it to follow people around and talk with those in different servers. Don't really need that with SC2. I just don't see it as any sort of reliable data source that has any sort of impact on anything.
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