Steamchart - doesnt look too healthy?! :/

Less people, less inflation and less trade/global chat spam. Can't say I miss em.

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bluefalcon74 написал:

It's official. Steamgraph shows lowest playerbase since release. No sign of it slowing either as we're only halfway through the new leagues.

Good thing Chris delivered some numbers in the mean time. Looks like Steam players don't even make 30% of the current player base.

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Xavderion написал:

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bluefalcon74 написал:

It's official. Steamgraph shows lowest playerbase since release. No sign of it slowing either as we're only halfway through the new leagues.

Good thing Chris delivered some numbers in the mean time. Looks like Steam players don't even make 30% of the current player base.

They used to account for half. Following the trend I can assume non-Steam users have decreased by 20% too. That's a 40% global drop in players since release.

Bad things are Chris didn't deliver any actual numbers, just the irrelevant proportions. Not that I'm personally quite interested about it. At all.

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bluefalcon74 написал:

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Xavderion написал:

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bluefalcon74 написал:

It's official. Steamgraph shows lowest playerbase since release. No sign of it slowing either as we're only halfway through the new leagues.

Good thing Chris delivered some numbers in the mean time. Looks like Steam players don't even make 30% of the current player base.

They used to account for half. Following the trend I can assume non-Steam users have decreased by 20% too. That's a 40% global drop in players since release.

You're not very good with numbers :P The ratio went from 50:50 to 30:70, has nothing to do with total numbers. It just means either Steam player retention is much worse than the non-Steam one, or PoE is gaining much more new players through the homepage comapared to the Steam page. Or both. Either way, it means Steam isn't a good representation of the total player base.

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torturo написал:

Bad things are Chris didn't deliver any actual numbers, just the irrelevant proportions. Not that I'm personally quite interested about it. At all.

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S on/ Hopefully steam graphs are not a sign for a negative trend in general.
S off/

He in fact did deliver actual numbers. I'm too lazy to search, though.

lol feedback

We don't need bogus statistics in a lame attempt to prove if the player base is diminishing or not. Anyone with eyes can see that it is...

P.S. - Blind eyes aside.

It was only a matter of time this thread was hidden away in the feedback forum.

Chris and co. are aware of the issues, else they wouldn't be nerfing RHOAS of all things in normal mode. They are well aware that the biggest dropoff in Steam numbers happened with people who didn't even stick around to see Brutus. Heck, they didn't even reach the steep and unforgiving "I quit this shit" curve of act 2/3 Cruel.

Anyway, the numbers for Steam are definitely worrying, because we just hit bottom tier on par with the end of last league, when no one wanted to play and was just waiting for the new league. And we still got over two months to go. Definitely not good, since it means that the players leaving are not the casuals but the regulars.

I think we need to concentrate on changing the current grindy/no-life mechanics instead of just adding new stuff. You need to retain players' interest and reward them in some way. I'll take increased drops with a bit of inflation over the status quo any day of the week.

we will have a slight stop of this trend during May 1st-4th 'holidays' when in large parts of the world people/students have time of. but the trend is inevitable and anyone using poe.xyz or simply watching the forums/chat/trade board can see it. it is steady decline. recent patches have absolutely no influence on it it seems..

i managed to buy Doon Ch. mace for 5 chaos and it seems it had been listed on poexyz with that price for several days.. cmon this is 3exalts below 'regular' price. in the good days such deals lasted 10 minutes.