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[C E Dwyer]

it's the people that have joined through steam, and those that chose to re instal through steam, people like myself are not added to the numbers

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

HellJumper, on 13 December 2015 - 09:54 PM, said:

as it means the non steam players (assuming here ) of around 5k

How do you get that number?

[Rhaythe]

At the very minimum, there's around 14k players based on the results of the previous Tukayyid tournament:
http://mwomercs.com/...id-stats-part-1

Add to steam, bleed off a thousand or so for players switching to steam client, and we're looking at a player base of around 20k users.

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

Rhaythe, on 14 December 2015 - 07:42 AM, said:

At the very minimum, there's around 14k players based on the results of the previous Tukayyid tournament:
http://mwomercs.com/...id-stats-part-1

Add to steam, bleed off a thousand or so for players switching to steam client, and we're looking at a player base of around 20k users.

Pretty far down from the million they had in beta (but ofc that was forum accounts not game accounts)

http://www.gamasutra...r_milestone.php

Edited by Mechwarrior Buddah, 14 December 2015 - 07:43 AM.

[Rhaythe]

Mechwarrior Buddah, on 14 December 2015 - 07:43 AM, said:

Pretty far down from the million they had in beta (but ofc that was forum accounts not game accounts)

We founders are a dying breed.

[Bilbo]

Rhaythe, on 14 December 2015 - 07:42 AM, said:

At the very minimum, there's around 14k players based on the results of the previous Tukayyid tournament:
http://mwomercs.com/...id-stats-part-1

Add to steam, bleed off a thousand or so for players switching to steam client, and we're looking at a player base of around 20k users.

You can't take numbers from a single mode event and make any assumptions about the actual player base. While 14k players dropped in the Tuk event I had no trouble getting games in solo public queue while ignoring the event entirely.

[Rhaythe]

Bilbo, on 14 December 2015 - 08:16 AM, said:

You can't take numbers from a single mode event and make any assumptions about the actual player base. While 14k players dropped in the Tuk event I had no trouble getting games in solo public queue while ignoring the event entirely.

I'm well aware. It's entirely speculative. But it is a minimum baseline.

[HellJumper]

Mechwarrior Buddah, on 14 December 2015 - 07:26 AM, said:

How do you get that number?

that is why i said "assuming here"...

if i remember correctly people had tried to guess the number on previous occassions as well .. the link given by Rhaythe tries to pin the number as well... offcourse its a single event which cannot represent the exact number that is why i was using the figure of 5k for non event population.

[Champion of Khorne Lord of Blood]

Not sure if anyone has noticed the data on that site linked eariler: https://steamdb.info.../342200/graphs/

But over 123,000 people have downloaded MWO so far, and around 59,000 have played. Not all at once of course, but the player pool is pretty expanded.

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

Dakota1000, on 15 December 2015 - 12:38 AM, said:

Not sure if anyone has noticed the data on that site linked eariler: https://steamdb.info.../342200/graphs/

But over 123,000 people have downloaded MWO so far, and around 59,000 have played. Not all at once of course, but the player pool is pretty expanded.

over one million had signed up for it in CB

http://www.gamasutra...r_milestone.php

[Kraftwerkedup]

Their last numbers they released on big packs being sold, they sold 24,000 of them.

Theres about an equal number of people who play who didnt buy them.

Theres about 50k total MWO players. Though not all of them log in every day, week, or month. There might only be 5-20k playing at any given time, depending on events, time of day, weekends, etc.

Theres been about a million individuals to play the game at least once. And around 600k registered on the forums.

Mechwarrior Buddah, on 15 December 2015 - 12:36 PM, said:

over one million had signed up for it in CB

http://www.gamasutra...r_milestone.php

Of course some percentage of that were dynamic ips, or people with new ips, downloading the game for the 2nd or 3rd time.

Weve certainly passed a million since then, but I dont think we've passed 1.3 million real unique users.

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

Kraftwerkedup, on 15 December 2015 - 12:44 PM, said:

Weve certainly passed a million since then, but I dont think we've passed 1.3 million real unique users.

lol

But nowhere near that many play. Its like when Mcdonalds says theyve served 3 billion ppl or whatever

Edited by Mechwarrior Buddah, 15 December 2015 - 12:50 PM.

[Bill Lumbar]

I have been a steam user for over 6 years.... I down loaded MWO as soon as I was able to and that's how I log in now when I play.

[Deathlike]

I've stopped using the regular client (downloading is far less painful) starting this patch. I don't see much of a degradation from what I normally see anyways.

Besides, I don't have to wait for the MWO patcher/launcher telling me it's ready to patch even if the Steam download is larger.

[Wintersdark]

Steam has way more bandwidth and will patch in the background. Win and win!

[CycKath]

Due to PGI living in the past, patches always drop at about 4am here in Brisbane, so in times past (new 'Mech packs for example) I got up at time to manually load the launcher and click the patch button to ensure I got it down and had a couple of games before going to work.

This morning I had Steam sitting there in the background automatically download the update without my intervention.