In two weeks PoE will have less STEAM players than at the end of last leagues

Again this

meh

They didn't add enough things to do, the corrupted areas were a nice touch, but I am not farming Act 1 - 2 for their featured zones. Any zone should've been able to spawn everywhere. That would have added a lot more spice to grinding the same areas over and over and doing the challenge and not having to do the same place however many times.

I have steam and purchase many games through steam. The only game i play through steam is tf2. I have also heard several people asking on how to seperate their game client from steam. While the ingame population maybe shrinking, i think steam is a terrible metric for user volume.

Unless steam players quit a lot more often, its pretty easy to tell that the numbers can be extrapolated to the entire playerbase.

ie if you pick 1000 people and 200 have hairy nuts, then you can say 200,000 in a population of 1,000,000 have hairy nuts unless you screwed up and only looked at men in your sample of 1000

I dont think the steam playerbase is significantly different from normal players. I know a lot of people here say they are casual scum, but thats just a stereotype.

The hardcore PoE players use the client because Steam has more than PoE on it.

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xXx_EliteHardcorePro_xXx a écrit :

Unless steam players quit a lot more often, its pretty easy to tell that the numbers can be extrapolated to the entire playerbase.

ie if you pick 1000 people and 200 have hairy nuts, then you can say 200,000 in a population of 1,000,000 have hairy nuts unless you screwed up and only looked at men in your sample of 1000

I dont think the steam playerbase is significantly different from normal players. I know a lot of people here say they are casual scum, but thats just a stereotype.

+1

"as long as the ratio between steam and non-steam clients does not change, the steam player numbers can be used to draw up this trend"

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Jayburner a écrit :

I will keep playing until I'm the last person playing this game. And I'm not even addicted.

LOL. I bow to you, sir or madam, for making my day :)

And again with steam chars which have proven to be a fairly small representation of the current player base and one that is shrinking because people can't use steam due to technical problems, steam region blocking and the people that discovered the game on steam are people that are not very interested in general.

I agree with the sentiment that Steam doesn't represent the whole playerbase (personally I did migrate to Steam, as it's more convenient), but it doesn't change the fact that players on Steam -- as the only visible metric -- are decreasing with each passing day.

And although the game did have a large following before the Steam release, it appears that, beyond the number of registered accounts (not a very meaningful statistic by itself), Steam integration has failed to increase the size of the playerbase in a meaningful way. Chris might be "not concerned with this at all", but getting into the largest PC gaming platform and not having the community grow as a result could hardly be called success. I'm not speaking out of my ass here -- just compare the numbers Chris last posted for peak releases with those of the Open Beta Launch.

Ultimately I believe there are things holding the game's playerbase back -- but I trust that GGG will eventually, in a warping of Chris' words, get concerned about it enough to do something.

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CharanJaydemyr a écrit :

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Worldbreaker a écrit :

They didn't add enough things to do, the corrupted areas were a nice touch, but I am not farming Act 1 - 2 for their featured zones. Any zone should've been able to spawn everywhere. That would have added a lot more spice to grinding the same areas over and over and doing the challenge and not having to do the same place however many times.

Thematically weak idea. I wouldn't like the illogical move from, say, interior to exterior.

It was a rushed addition though. Doesn't take a genius to see that.

Right
but i wonder how and if they can bring the Diablo 2 type of "being able to grind all act with pretty much the same rewardness" effect

sure higher areas for better xp and exclusive loots but D2 was a linear progression while POE is exponential, which hurts it