Steamchart - doesnt look too healthy?! :/

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haunted33 написал:

half of the people here dont understand how "statistics" work

if you have 30 000 people playing PoE trough steam, and over half of them already quit, that tendencie applys to the people that "dont play poe trough steam" as well, unless you can provide evidance why people that dont use steam are less likely to quit than the other 15 000 that did quit using steam...

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krassi3000 написал:

steam is shit..

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DexterousGecko написал:

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RagnarokChu написал:

Okay I'm assuming all of you passed highschool or at least most of it and can understand basic line graph chart.

This may blow many of you guys minds because you didn't take statistics but you also have to understand the MEANING behind the chart and how it applies to the whole to the question to are asking.

If the question is "is PoE" losing playerbase quite quickly, then to have to think about where the chart is from and the environmental factors behind the chart.

Because PoE already existed as a game with a playerbase, the steam chart doesn't not record the player base before the game was released on steam.

As a new free game on steam many people played it, tricking down to an average of 15k+ players or whatever.

Because PoE already existed as a game with a player base, their PLAYER COUNT has increased by 15k+.

PoE did not LOSE 15k+ players because simply they never had the players to begin with, the only number that matters is that their average CONSTANT players that play are keeping the same or slowly increasing.

To tell the current health of the game we need a chart of the game from open beta all the way to the steam release, with the steam release numbers added in.

My god so many intellectuals here.

Like literally can't even explain how using the steam chart to say PoE playerbase is dropping is incorrect properly.

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So your logic is that every steam player is a new player, and adds to the population. I'll let you in on a secret Mr. Intellectual. I started using steam to play POE after release. I'm sure a lot of people did the same. Despite the few people that seem stuck in 2005 when steam was awful, a lot of people enjoy the convenience of steam. The fact is, from release, the population of POE has dropped dramatically. Let's say there were 20,000 beta players. Okay, steam releases, adds 35,000 to that number. 55k. Now assuming EVERY BETA player is still playing AND doesn't play on steam (which is insane!) the number is now around 32k. Even with the most positive spin on the numbers, that's a huge number of people to stop playing since release. Who knows, maybe 100 thousand people were playing closed beta and those 100 thousand are still playing (without steam of course).

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krassi3000 написал:

steam is shit..

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Peenk написал:

So funny, Steam means nothing now it shows the player base declining but if was the best thing since sliced bread when people used it to measure the player base rising :D!