General Discussion - Trendspotting: POE Playerbase almost halved on Steam alone since the release of Awakening - Forum

" Barivius a écrit : " Zhatan a écrit : We lost about 66% of the players in a little over a month. Saving the map system cant be allowed to take over a month. Add to that the crafting scandal.. Well, you see where this is going. Are we looking at the same steam chart? Did you just pick that out of a hat? Wait so the fact that after the hype has died, we have more steam players than the release of forsaken masters is concerning? This is fabulous. Rectistics is the mathematical discipline of pulling numbers out of one's rectum. There is a closely-related discipline, analgebra, which is often cited in an attempt to support the original hypothesis. =^[.]^= =^[.]^= basic (happy/amused) cheetahmoticon: Whiskers/eye/tear-streak/nose/tear-streak/eye/ whiskers =@[.]@= boggled / =>[.]<= annoyed or angry / ='[.]'= concerned / =0[.]o= confuzzled / =-[.]-= sad or sleepy / =[.]= dazzled / =^[.]~= wink / =~[.]^= naughty wink / =9[.]9= rolleyes #FourYearLie Dernière édition par Raycheetah#7060, le 25 août 2015 à 03:01:08	Posté par Raycheetah#7060 le 25 août 2015 à 03:00:20 Membre Alpha Citer ce post
" Barivius a écrit : " Zhatan a écrit : We lost about 66% of the players in a little over a month. Saving the map system cant be allowed to take over a month. Add to that the crafting scandal.. Well, you see where this is going. Are we looking at the same steam chart? Did you just pick that out of a hat? Wait so the fact that after the hype has died, we have more steam players than the release of forsaken masters is concerning? This is fabulous. Dont worry. You are doing fine. Except you are reading it wrong. The drop is much harder this time around.	Posté par Zhatan#4250 le 25 août 2015 à 06:42:56 Citer ce post
Let's limit leagues duration to 1.5 month next time ( only 1M leagues ) ^^ More efficient Hf :)	Posté par Heli0nix#0378 le 25 août 2015 à 07:51:59 Citer ce post
Same procedure as every year. New Patch/new league -> new players/old players return ... a few days in -> half the players are back to their normal life ... tradechat has less channels, spam is slower / my friendlist has max. 10% players on / steamcharts are poop ... rinse and repeat PoE was PoE, is Poe and will be PoE in the future. If you like the game now, you like it tomorrow... if you think it's not fun to play... it won't be fun in the future... PoE never changes like GGG isn't able to change. Why am I still here? I am addicted... sometimes it's fun, sometimes I hate playing PoE... but I am always addicted. And last but not least... there is no, really NO alternative. Have a problem with something I said? PM goetzjam don't derail a thread. 'There's plenty that needs to change. And back in my day we had real game devs.' - TheAnuhart Last edited by ScrotieMcB on February 30, 2016 0:61 PM Help Charan color the board - use [u color] to make your posts shine.	Posté par kcstar#1724 le 25 août 2015 à 09:14:59 Citer ce post
" Zhatan a écrit : We lost about 66% of the players in a little over a month. Saving the map system cant be allowed to take over a month. Add to that the crafting scandal.. Well, you see where this is going. You're projecting your pet peeves with the game onto the whole population. Most people don't care about 74+ maps or the "crafting scandal". Most people don't even know about the latter. GGG banning all political discussion shortly after getting acquired by China is a weird coincidence.	Posté par Xavderion#3432 le 25 août 2015 à 09:52:30 Citer ce post
" Heli0nix a écrit : Let's limit leagues duration to 1.5 month next time ( only 1M leagues ) ^^ More efficient 1-2 months is plenty long, agreed.	Posté par SpanishMonarch#1574 le 25 août 2015 à 10:38:30 Citer ce post
Who taught you to interpret charts xD? You only obvious conclusion so far would be the exact opposite. That the player base doubled since the release of awakening. I mean... just look at the numbers. The pattern of a sudden spike in player base, that slowly declines as the league progresses is normal. Its like that for every league.	Posté par Frankenberry#0590 le 25 août 2015 à 12:12:40 Citer ce post
" Aim_Deep a écrit : " eXecut1on a écrit : Lack of progression and GG Items being exclusive to uber rich players. There is a limited number of viable builds without having mirrored weapons. You play these builds (if you like them), get tired of them and quit or you farm and sell stuff for 2000+ hours to get a mirrored weapon and good gear to make unviable skills viable. The majority of people are in the 1st category. To unlock the full potential of this game you'd need to have at least 300-400ex. Also this game is the most noob-friendly game I have ever seen so there is no real influx of new players which also leads to this extreme decrease in the player base. If GGG isn't going to change anything about this, PoE is doomed to be dead when the next A+ ARPG is released. lol thats absurd. fox tactics beat uber with 4L arc no less couple patch ago. There are dozens of budget builds that do uber in 5L right now. To unlock potential L2P or just follow one of mathils or other streamers guides or something if u cant do that. No shame in it. I did my first couple builds here until I learned the ropes and could venture out on my own. This game is fairly complicated. The synergies of skills and unique and the bosses you have to fight and maybe some ppl dont like that complexity and want everything handed to them (like d3). This game is not for them. But for those who like it we are not going anywhere even if i'm pissed about map drops. I can always reroll (cheaply too) You didn't understand my point. I wasn't even talking about Atziri, where did you come up with this? I am talking about 90%+ of the skills being useless for endgame without mirrored gear therefore being forced into playing meta builds.	Posté par eXecut1on#3516 le 25 août 2015 à 12:26:10 Citer ce post
" kcstar a écrit : Same procedure as every year. New Patch/new league -> new players/old players return ... a few days in -> half the players are back to their normal life ... tradechat has less channels, spam is slower / my friendlist has max. 10% players on / steamcharts are poop ... rinse and repeat And here is the biggest part of the problem with this pattern and i am very surprised that no one mentioned it yet. People are buying artificially bloated marketing hypes maybe once or a second time or let it even be a third time but i am 100% certain that there won't be a fourth time anymore, and the exception of players who are still willing to play whatever they'll get is totally marginal in comparison to the whole theoretical playerbase. " kcstar a écrit : And last but not least... there is no, really NO alternative. ... for you :) - Best Signature Ever -	Posté par BestUsernameEver#6698 le 25 août 2015 à 13:15:37 Citer ce post
" BestUsernameEver a écrit : And here is the biggest part of the problem with this pattern and i am very surprised that no one mentioned it yet. People are buying artificially bloated marketing hypes maybe once or a second time or let it even be a third time but i am 100% certain that there won't be a fourth time anymore, and the exception of players who are still willing to play whatever they'll get is totally marginal in comparison to the whole theoretical playerbase. Yet the game has been running like this and actually growing for over 2.5 years now :) GGG banning all political discussion shortly after getting acquired by China is a weird coincidence.	Posté par Xavderion#3432 le 25 août 2015 à 13:41:04 Citer ce post