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[Kasumi Sumika]

I am "Steam Birth" so I play MW:O after Steam and always play through Steam.

[Imperius]

l3elthaz0r, on 10 October 2016 - 06:24 PM, said:

Wow those are really dismal numbers. Only >1000 players?

My gut feeling says 300 of those people are what MWO was able to keep from steam launch the rest are from the already existing user base that switched over to steam for convenience. Steam launch day was like 4K so out of 3.5k potentially new users MWO could have had we kept 300ish.

[RestosIII]

I was here before Steam, but only play through Steam now.

[Chados]

Started before Steam. I still use the MWO client.

[Wintersdark]

Started before steam launch (start of open beta) switched to Steam as soon as it was available. Background patching while I'm at work is the best.

[El Bandito]

Not on Steam. Never saw the need for it.

[Wintersdark]

El Bandito, on 10 October 2016 - 07:28 PM, said:

Not on Steam. Never saw the need for it.

Like I said, background patching while you're at work. It's awesome No more getting home, THEN having to patch.

There's other advantages too, but that's the killer feature for me anyways. Never even need to think about patching.

[DaZur]

Original client before and after steam.

I'm too old-school to run any superfluous apps or programs while gaming... I'm an old Dos guy and old habits die hard.

Sigh. I fondly remember the days of tweaking my extended memory trying to get that additional 1K of memory to get the flipping yellow stippled canopy on my F-16 in Falcon 4.0.

I'm such a grognard.

[Imperius]

DaZur, on 10 October 2016 - 09:11 PM, said:

Original client before and after steam.

I'm too old-school to run any superfluous apps or programs while gaming... I'm an old Dos guy and old habits die hard.

Sigh. I fondly remember the days of tweaking my extended memory trying to get that additional 1K of memory to get the flipping yellow stippled canopy on my F-16 in Falcon 4.0.

I'm such a grognard.

I just have it on steam so it stays updated even though I haven't played a match since Feb. I did drop in the academy today for some performance testing.I still can't believe my system takes 30 FPS dumps randomly still but I digress. I see they drastically changed the AI battle area to allow missile file and UAV's.

Edited by Imperius, 10 October 2016 - 09:15 PM.

[Morticia Mellian]

I started out before Steam, and the got back into the game after the steam client came out, which I am still using to play with.

[Darky101]

I started in Beta, did not get hooked, only near the end of 2014 did I start to play actively droping 3-4 nights a week.
Never played on steam.

Edited by Darky101, 10 October 2016 - 11:55 PM.

[SuomiWarder]

Here before steam, linked into my Steam library, but never start from Steam so don't know if Steam knows when I play or not.

[Miodog]

Played open beta left before Clans dropped. I came back when released to Steam, still play through Steam. I took a break from May through September this year, I had to accept that MWO will never be anything more than TDM and with that realization I'm playing again.

[razenWing]

You can easily tell who bought more than 10 games on Steam vs who'd stuck in the past based on the responses.

Haha...

[The Lost Boy]

Main client since open beta.

[meteorol]

l3elthaz0r, on 10 October 2016 - 06:24 PM, said:

Wow those are really dismal numbers. Only >1000 players?

Still better than No Man's Sky.

[Gladius Vittoris]

Imperius, on 10 October 2016 - 05:54 PM, said:

I'm just trying to see how many new users we are keeping. Basically getting an idea on player retention and desert rates.

l3elthaz0r, on 10 October 2016 - 06:24 PM, said:

Wow those are really dismal numbers. Only >1000 players?

As always only true mechwarriors are interest in this title. Niche playerbase.

For an idea about how many accounts play, I've dropped with one alt.account and I've seen it on 30991° position in the leaderboard.

[l3elthaz0r]

Gladius Vittoris, on 10 October 2016 - 10:46 PM, said:

As always only true mechwarriors are interest in this title. Niche playerbase.

For an idea about how many accounts play, I've dropped with one alt.account and I've seen it on 30991° position in the leaderboard.

True, a very niche playerbase. Which saddens me somewhat that we may never get all the shiny things star citizen is getting for example because there's not enough funds going about.

[Lukoi Banacek]

Leaderboard as high as 55k in recent weeks.

Own like 30+ games via steam, but dont use it for MWO. Havent since the week after MWO went ti steam.

How does polling forumites vice using the leaderboard give you any real idea the number playing the game?

[Gladius Vittoris]

l3elthaz0r, on 10 October 2016 - 11:20 PM, said:

True, a very niche playerbase. Which saddens me somewhat that we may never get all the shiny things star citizen is getting for example because there's not enough funds going about.

well, 30k in a 4 year old game is not that bad.
But even with a fresh new MW5 that number would not increase that much. Because of niche. Very few are interest in BT or MW outside the ones who already are.