School is in session and we had a nice growth of .71% in the past two weeks. MMORPG's are back as the games of choice for our PC users as they escape from work/school. Our biggest gain was .62 for Aion which I am sure is gaining a bit of popularity more with the NA Launch today. The biggest loss was SA at .22 which is in line with our other FPS titles. The only movement was W3 dropping a spot even with gains as WoW pushes up another notch to show it's still a contender for peoples money. Overall ever MMORPG gained while most casual pick up games dropped showing people just want to dig in at the moment and surrender to the familiar.
Blizzard with 3 games in Top 5. But what the mole ... Aion first place with ~18%. Thats almost as much as WC3, SC and WoW alltogether? I am really confused since I played Aion beta and I really don't see how this game made it to the top three, let alone first place. Seems like I don't get korean gaming mentality at all :/
Also Sudden Attack on the second place. This game is utterly crap. Meh
EDIT:
Okay, that's what I got as response to my question how exactly it's measured:
The information I gather daily from http://www.gametrics.com/ which tracks many things. I focus of their tracking of games being played from various internet connections. If I remember correctly the established connection isn't fully counted until at least 15m-30m of connect time has been acheived with the product. The measurements are basically unique connections from homes, offices, and businesses (such as connections from restaurants and hotels) mixed with information gathered from Internet Cafes (The main gaming area for Korean gamers) of their client logs. They also factor the amount of time played by people into the equation to get a better understanding of how much a particular game is being played and by how many people to show it's presence in the market place. Hope this helps.
Lol... Aion is just another high priced mmo for people to waste their time on. Does anyone else wish the mmorpg genre would die a little so they would actually have to be innovative
for what it's worth... when I go to the PC bang (not that often anymore), the only games I see being played by more then 1/2 people are Wc3 (specifically Dota or the korean version), SC, SA, WoW or Aion... which are the top 5 there... but interestingly Dota seems to be hot these days... you always get groups of 5 schoolkids sitting next to each other playing the HELL out of that game... like... I came back once afte ra couple of hours and they hadnt moved...
I have a PC bang under my house (it's an elevator away) so sometimes I go there just to play Dota with some friends : )
Edit: 95% of times when you go to a random PC Bang... the people playing SC are NOT playing melee... but strange and terrible looking UMS
like... HOW MANY MARINES CAN YOU FIT ON A SINGLE BOARD or.... HOW MANY REAVERS DOES IT TAKE TO KILL A BILLION ULTRALISKS
All my Korean friends at school here in the States are playing Aion and none have expressed interest in playing beyond the campaign in SC2, let alone returning to BW. It thoroughly disheartens me.
On September 23 2009 10:22 ShloobeR wrote: for what it's worth... when I go to the PC bang (not that often anymore), the only games I see being played by more then 1/2 people are Wc3 (specifically Dota or the korean version), SC, SA, WoW or Aion... which are the top 5 there... but interestingly Dota seems to be hot these days... you always get groups of 5 schoolkids sitting next to each other playing the HELL out of that game... like... I came back once afte ra couple of hours and they hadnt moved...
I have a PC bang under my house (it's an elevator away) so sometimes I go there just to play Dota with some friends : )
Edit: 95% of times when you go to a random PC Bang... the people playing SC are NOT playing melee... but strange and terrible looking UMS
like... HOW MANY MARINES CAN YOU FIT ON A SINGLE BOARD or.... HOW MANY REAVERS DOES IT TAKE TO KILL A BILLION ULTRALISKS
DotA is INSANELY popular in south east asian countries. DotA killed popular games like CS 1.6, SC, and WC3 over there, which is why top DotA teams are usually Malaysian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, etc.
Wow, Sudden Attack over Special Force? Last time I checked, Special Force was the most popular FPS in Korea.
On September 23 2009 08:51 Caller wrote: gogo dungeon and fighter i bet most of the wc3 players are playing dota tho
Correct me if I am wrong but Dota is in fact part of WC3 and arguably a subordinate of WC3 so Dota is a part of the WC3 universe. Thus making your biased statement fueled and based off of envy of a rivaling e-Sport game to SC you wish to slander it in anyway possible, pitiful.
On September 23 2009 10:22 ShloobeR wrote: for what it's worth... when I go to the PC bang (not that often anymore), the only games I see being played by more then 1/2 people are Wc3 (specifically Dota or the korean version), SC, SA, WoW or Aion... which are the top 5 there... but interestingly Dota seems to be hot these days... you always get groups of 5 schoolkids sitting next to each other playing the HELL out of that game... like... I came back once afte ra couple of hours and they hadnt moved...
I have a PC bang under my house (it's an elevator away) so sometimes I go there just to play Dota with some friends : )
Edit: 95% of times when you go to a random PC Bang... the people playing SC are NOT playing melee... but strange and terrible looking UMS
like... HOW MANY MARINES CAN YOU FIT ON A SINGLE BOARD or.... HOW MANY REAVERS DOES IT TAKE TO KILL A BILLION ULTRALISKS
DotA is INSANELY popular in south east asian countries. DotA killed popular games like CS 1.6, SC, and WC3 over there, which is why top DotA teams are usually Malaysian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, etc.
Wow, Sudden Attack over Special Force? Last time I checked, Special Force was the most popular FPS in Korea.
When was the last time you checekd lol... when i went to korea over the summer, every pc bang 90% sudden attack -_-
On September 23 2009 10:22 ShloobeR wrote: for what it's worth... when I go to the PC bang (not that often anymore), the only games I see being played by more then 1/2 people are Wc3 (specifically Dota or the korean version), SC, SA, WoW or Aion... which are the top 5 there... but interestingly Dota seems to be hot these days... you always get groups of 5 schoolkids sitting next to each other playing the HELL out of that game... like... I came back once afte ra couple of hours and they hadnt moved...
I have a PC bang under my house (it's an elevator away) so sometimes I go there just to play Dota with some friends : )
Edit: 95% of times when you go to a random PC Bang... the people playing SC are NOT playing melee... but strange and terrible looking UMS
like... HOW MANY MARINES CAN YOU FIT ON A SINGLE BOARD or.... HOW MANY REAVERS DOES IT TAKE TO KILL A BILLION ULTRALISKS
DotA is INSANELY popular in south east asian countries. DotA killed popular games like CS 1.6, SC, and WC3 over there, which is why top DotA teams are usually Malaysian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, etc.
Wow, Sudden Attack over Special Force? Last time I checked, Special Force was the most popular FPS in Korea.
When was the last time you checekd lol... when i went to korea over the summer, every pc bang 90% sudden attack -_-
On September 23 2009 09:44 Bebop Berserker wrote: Lol... Aion is just another high priced mmo for people to waste their time on. Does anyone else wish the mmorpg genre would die a little so they would actually have to be innovative
I play in some random league... The time for the automatching of the website to find a game is at least as fast as the time it takes normal WC3 ladder to find a game for me... And that needs 10 players + a host....
Dota is seriously huge and is probably overshadowing WC3 by a huge margin nowadays.
On September 23 2009 10:22 ShloobeR wrote: for what it's worth... when I go to the PC bang (not that often anymore), the only games I see being played by more then 1/2 people are Wc3 (specifically Dota or the korean version), SC, SA, WoW or Aion... which are the top 5 there... but interestingly Dota seems to be hot these days... you always get groups of 5 schoolkids sitting next to each other playing the HELL out of that game... like... I came back once afte ra couple of hours and they hadnt moved...
I have a PC bang under my house (it's an elevator away) so sometimes I go there just to play Dota with some friends : )
Edit: 95% of times when you go to a random PC Bang... the people playing SC are NOT playing melee... but strange and terrible looking UMS
like... HOW MANY MARINES CAN YOU FIT ON A SINGLE BOARD or.... HOW MANY REAVERS DOES IT TAKE TO KILL A BILLION ULTRALISKS
DotA is INSANELY popular in south east asian countries. DotA killed popular games like CS 1.6, SC, and WC3 over there, which is why top DotA teams are usually Malaysian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, etc.
Wow, Sudden Attack over Special Force? Last time I checked, Special Force was the most popular FPS in Korea.
Probably becuz SA is free...? I dunno if Special Force is or not ^^ (And when you got G-Dragon, CL, Park Bom holding guns in SA oh yeah it's gonna be popular...)
On September 23 2009 10:22 ShloobeR wrote: for what it's worth... when I go to the PC bang (not that often anymore), the only games I see being played by more then 1/2 people are Wc3 (specifically Dota or the korean version), SC, SA, WoW or Aion... which are the top 5 there... but interestingly Dota seems to be hot these days... you always get groups of 5 schoolkids sitting next to each other playing the HELL out of that game... like... I came back once afte ra couple of hours and they hadnt moved...
I have a PC bang under my house (it's an elevator away) so sometimes I go there just to play Dota with some friends : )
Edit: 95% of times when you go to a random PC Bang... the people playing SC are NOT playing melee... but strange and terrible looking UMS
like... HOW MANY MARINES CAN YOU FIT ON A SINGLE BOARD or.... HOW MANY REAVERS DOES IT TAKE TO KILL A BILLION ULTRALISKS
DotA is INSANELY popular in south east asian countries. DotA killed popular games like CS 1.6, SC, and WC3 over there, which is why top DotA teams are usually Malaysian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, etc.
Wow, Sudden Attack over Special Force? Last time I checked, Special Force was the most popular FPS in Korea.
Probably becuz SA is free...? I dunno if Special Force is or not ^^ (And when you got G-Dragon, CL, Park Bom holding guns in SA oh yeah it's gonna be popular...)
Okay, that's what I got as response to my question how exactly it's measured:
The information I gather daily from http://www.gametrics.com/ which tracks many things. I focus of their tracking of games being played from various internet connections. If I remember correctly the established connection isn't fully counted until at least 15m-30m of connect time has been acheived with the product. The measurements are basically unique connections from homes, offices, and businesses (such as connections from restaurants and hotels) mixed with information gathered from Internet Cafes (The main gaming area for Korean gamers) of their client logs. They also factor the amount of time played by people into the equation to get a better understanding of how much a particular game is being played and by how many people to show it's presence in the market place. Hope this helps.
Bear "replicant" Powell
So basicly it measures uniqe connections which last at least 15 - 30 mins from homes, offices, businesses AND Internet Cafes. This site looks legit (but you never know), so overall it seems to be a reliabel source. Maybe a korean can "check" this site to see if it's biased or something?
Also I looked up some older reports and Aion is first place since the day it was released. With an huuuuge gap. Whooosh.
APRIL:
[Korean] Top 10 PC Games Being Played (4/25 All Genres)
01. Aion Online (MMORPG) [18.47%] 02. Sudden Attack (MMOFPS) [9.94%] 03. Starcraft: Brood War (Multiplayer RTS) [7.41%] 04. World of Warcraft (MMORPG) [6.89%] 05. Warcraft 3 (Multiplayer RTS) [6%] 06. Lineage 2 (MMORPG) [4.93%] 07. Special Force (MMOFPS) [4.32%] 08. FIFA Online 2 (Multiplayer Soccer/Futbol) [4.14%] 09. Lineage (MMORPG) [3.98%] 10. Dungeon & Fighter (MMO Beat'em Up) [2.83%]
MAI
[Korean] Top 10 PC Games Being Played (5/26 All Genres)
01. Aion Online (MMORPG) [19.76%] 02. Sudden Attack (MMOFPS) [9.14%] 03. Starcraft: Brood War (Multiplayer RTS) [6.92%] 04. World of Warcraft (MMORPG) [6.24%] 05. Warcraft 3 (Multiplayer RTS) [5.63%] 06. Lineage 2 (MMORPG) [5.21%] 07. Special Force (MMOFPS) [4.58%] 08. Lineage (MMORPG) [4.07%] 09. FIFA Online 2 (Multiplayer Soccer/Futbol) [3.01%] 10. Dungeon & Fighter (MMO Beat'em Up) [2.88%]
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AUGUST
[Korean] Top 10 PC Games Being Played (8/25 All Genres)
Well, I guess Starcraft ist still broadcasted the most since it's just an insane observer e-sport. But I'm still surprised to see that there are games in korea which are "more popular".
EPT
