[PSA] How To Tell If PoE Is Dying

Well, there's enough people to drag my download speed down to 0-100 kbs, so I guess it's doing somewhat well.

Start of open beta is the peak, since then has been halved. I'd say that's dying.


Also, the website visits hardly matter at all. A lot of people who don't play visit the website to check to see if a new update came out that might bring them back, and a lot of people who do play never visit the website.

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Nycro wrote:

Start of open beta is the peak, since then has been halved. I'd say that's dying.

Till today, I think I have been on the site maybe a total of 20 times. Which site analytics is what those are referencing.
I have played i think about a month of /played time.
It doesn't seem like it is dying to me. Honestly I would still play if I was the only one, I like the game.

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Nycro wrote:

Start of open beta is the peak, since then has been halved. I'd say that's dying.

I'd say it is just not hyped anymore.

But you probably believe that Chris is pulling numbers out of his ass so...

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THEHORNEDRAT wrote:

lol, another thread. This has to stop.

The difference is, this one is actually good, and tells people how to see for themselves that PoE is NOT dying.


-VG-

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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anotherid wrote:

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Amiag wrote:

honestly those statistics dont mean much, if anything at all

the only number that counts is active players and only GGG knows that

Wrong. The only thing that matters is PAYING players. And only GGG knows that.

Wrong again. The only thing that matters is PAYMENT; the number of people providing that payment is irrelevant. And only GGG knows how much they're paid.

TRIPLE wrong. The only thing that matter is... oh wait. That wasn't wrong at all.

Carry on then.

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Nycro wrote:

Start of open beta is the peak, since then has been halved. I'd say that's dying.

There is always a release spike, man. That's just kinda what happens. The spike normalizing doesn't equate to the death of the product, it just means the initial hype period has ended and now one can gauge the actual level of continued interest.

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Also, the website visits hardly matter at all. A lot of people who don't play visit the website to check to see if a new update came out that might bring them back, and a lot of people who do play never visit the website.

Well yeah, but the idea is to get an accurate estimate. Little variables like you just mentioned aren't going to change the overall effectiveness of the measurements. Were PoE dying, people would come to the site looking for patches less and less often.


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