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[Major Cockburn]

Broceratops, on 20 December 2012 - 02:33 PM, said:

i see a lot of non founder tag people now. more than before. this is just the feeling i have in my head of course, but i think population is on the upswing.

that doesn't mean they're making any money, but I'm not fearing that they'll go THQ on us in the next half year

you do know that there's A LOT of people with multiple accounts....

[Ilwrath]

Thorn Hallis, on 20 December 2012 - 01:54 PM, said:

Why is it important for you to know how many people are online? Besides conspiracy theories?

I must agree. Information is bad. May lead to thought errors.

[Agent 0 Fortune]

Don't you conspiracy theorist have more important things to worry about, like the world ending tomorrow?

[Bryan Ekman]

Comguard, on 20 December 2012 - 02:34 PM, said:

Total Members today: 415,888 Total Members 26 November, the day the thread was closed: 406,201 Around 400 new users per day.

Forum users.... not registered users. yes they are different. You need to multiply that by [redacted] to get the real registrations.

[Broceratops]

Major Cockburn, on 20 December 2012 - 02:36 PM, said:

you do know that there's A LOT of people with multiple accounts....

what would be the point of this? you can't send anything to other accounts. you split all your earnings and exp. there's no matchmaking that would give you smurf advantages.

[Elkarlo]

Broceratops, on 20 December 2012 - 02:33 PM, said:

i see a lot of non founder tag people now. more than before. this is just the feeling i have in my head of course, but i think population is on the upswing.

that doesn't mean they're making any money, but I'm not fearing that they'll go THQ on us in the next half year

I did the same Oberservation, on some daytimes, there are around 70% founders in the Games, on other Times you can wave hello to the other Founder in a Game if there is one...

Asuming that the Hardcore Players are most likely Founders... that make it up. On certain times the Server are weak populated and you meet the Crack and you are fighting like hell, on other Times it's happy shooting Hour.

Personal Opinion: When PGI brings a Counter of Players online, they should make it like in Steam:
A Server statistic showing the last 48 Hours as graph and the aktual Players Number.
So we see the Up and downs of the Days and can compare them to the Day before.
And when clicked you get the whole Week.

That would be the only realy helpfull Implementation of a Players Online Counter.

Edited by Elkarlo, 20 December 2012 - 02:42 PM.

[Sifright]

Agent 0 Fortune, on 20 December 2012 - 02:37 PM, said:

Don't you conspiracy theorist have more important things to worry about, like the world ending tomorrow?

Nope will have a nice bottle of glennfidditch to see me through the day, get to be the passenger in a car traveling over 1800 miles tomorrow!

[Major Cockburn]

some for trolling the forums (the unit their main account belongs to may disapprove of trolling or something), some are setting up ringer accounts for trolling noobs when elo comes out, some to test stuff or jsut because they can

Broceratops, on 20 December 2012 - 02:39 PM, said:

what would be the point of this? you can't send anything to other accounts. you split all your earnings and exp. there's no matchmaking that would give you smurf advantages.

Edited by Major Cockburn, 20 December 2012 - 02:42 PM.

[Anastasius]

Fear me and my 24 Twin Brothers.

[Franchi]

Broceratops, on 20 December 2012 - 02:33 PM, said:

i see a lot of non founder tag people now. more than before. this is just the feeling i have in my head of course, but i think population is on the upswing.

that doesn't mean they're making any money, but I'm not fearing that they'll go THQ on us in the next half year

You know you can turn your founders tag off (in game not on forums), if for instance you are ashamed of having supported PGI, or you like the psychological damage you cause when a group of 8 "non" founders crush an 8 man of legendary founders.

Edited by Franchi, 20 December 2012 - 02:44 PM.

[Major Cockburn]

look up a couple posts there's some reasons listed

[Comguard]

You want to tell me that the MWO Forum has 400,000 users?

So, MW:O forums are actually 4x larger than Neogaf with around 93,000 members? Hard to believe.


@Buddahcjcc

As mentioned before, those numbers are shown on the main forum page, at the bottom.

On December 18 we had for the first time more active users online than on the spike-day in September, the time in between there were just around 1000 online in the forums.

Edited by Comguard, 20 December 2012 - 02:48 PM.

[Gallowglas]

Buddahcjcc, on 20 December 2012 - 02:30 PM, said:

No offense but we know as well as you do that if the number was positive it would be splashed all over the place, like the forums accounts was when they hit 500k or a million or whatever it was in CB

If it were me, I wouldn't. Even if MWO had 50 million subscribers, people would cite the fact that they saw the counter showed 49.9 million on one night as anecdotal evidence that the game was dying. As has already been mentioned, I cannot think of a real reason why anyone really needs the information or what real positive purpose it serves other than for people to watch like vultures for a downward trend.

Edited by Gallowglas, 20 December 2012 - 02:48 PM.

[Ilwrath]

Gallowglas, on 20 December 2012 - 02:47 PM, said:

If it were me, I wouldn't. Even if MWO had 50 million subscribers, people would cite the fact that they saw the counter showed 49.9 million on one night as anecdotal evidence that the game was dying. As has already been mentioned, I cannot think of a real reason why anyone really needs the information or what real positive purpose it serves other than for people to watch like vultures for a downward trend.

Why can World of Tanks have a counter and not this game?

[Major Cockburn]

Ilwrath, on 20 December 2012 - 02:50 PM, said:

Why can World of Tanks have a counter and not this game?

because wot is run by russians (i know theyr really ukranians or kazakstanians or something but w/e close enough) and mwo is run by canadians

[Gremlich Johns]

It matters not how many people are online - playing the game. It's like personal stats, nobody really cares except the people who are asking. In the long run, it adds nothing to the game except e-peen.

You'll know when there aren't enough playing when the game goes dark one day.

[PropagandaWar]

Sifright, on 20 December 2012 - 02:27 PM, said:

I wish I could believe this, my experience *admittedly anecdotal* is that I end up playing against the same few people constantly.

It could be a function of low player base in my peak gaming hours but even so :\

Are you launching almost immediately after every match? I have noticed that I get some not all of the same players if i do this. Same if I wait a few matches. Especially if they are playing the same mechs as before. Kind of like syncing a 8 man there's a good chance you'll play against each other again. I notice the same people over time. That is days. If your playing 50 matches a day your bound to run into people constantly. I think I back to backed a 8 man twice since doing them. Also I'd like to note I get less search drops doing 8 man over standard. So you may be playing at some freaky times or just have bad luck. I don't know. You also need to take into consideration this game doesn't require 4 hour raids. I'll drop in run 5 matches take off for a few hours and come back. I can be the only person in my TS for an hour then 8 people will pop on.

[Ilwrath]

Major Cockburn, on 20 December 2012 - 02:51 PM, said:

because wot is run by russians (i know theyr really ukranians or kazakstanians or something but w/e close enough) and mwo is run by canadians

Belarus actually. I am not sure what your point is.

[Garth Erlam]

Moogles, on 20 December 2012 - 01:20 PM, said:

They won't bring it back because the numbers are lower than they were in closed beta; which is quite frankly embarrassing.
Their excuse was that the tiny counter took up too much bandwidth or something.

Actually - particularly last patch - they went up quite a bit, so that was nice to see.

[Major Cockburn]

Ilwrath, on 20 December 2012 - 02:55 PM, said:

Belarus actually. I am not sure what your point is.

like I said close enough.