Do stats tell the truth about PoE?

Going old school...

D2 drops were MUCH better and I didn't get nearly as frustrated playing it...for YEARS!

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Odoakar wrote:

Based on this, we can say that 3,7 million players should be a rough number of players when PoE launched

Now, when PoE launched, the peak concurrent numbers of players in Steam was 29.000. Chris states they had 70.000 concurrent. Therefor, we can probably say with high certainty that the distribution of total player base was:

* 1.532.857 players through Steam
* 2.167.143 players outside Steam

Also, let's assume that out of these 1,5mil players on Steam, 85% played SC and 15% played HC.

- There have never been remotely close to 3.7 million people playing PoE. Accounts created and people playing are two massively different things.
- The peak number for Steam on launch was actually 35k, not 29k. This makes sense since I believe Chris stated at one point that half the playerbaes was on steam at the time.
- Yesterday when I checked Steam, the peak was at 10.5k, which is a drop of almost 70%.
- November 5th 2013.

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Chris wrote:

Domination: 51.3%
Nemesis: 20.5%
Standard: 25.6%
Hardcore: 2.6%

Slightly off on league distribution, but all your other numbers are completely wrong. So easy to look up.

Been playing F2P games for around 10 years, so I'm used to expecting numbers to fluctuate, but I really wasn't expecting a 70% drop of peak numbers on Steam that fast.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

I have quite a few "not yets"

I haven't found:

A 20% gem.
A multistrike support gem.
A portal gem.
About 90% of the uniques in the game.
A mirror.

I'm still having fun. That's all that matters.

I'm not sure 20% are findable

Been playing sicne .92 and highest i've found is a 19%

I've found 6 multistrikes, 5 portals, 2 shavs (legacy), about 15 exalts, 3 eternals, but no mirrors.

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Zaanus wrote:

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ghoulars wrote:

Ahh yes, the good old fanboy statement number 54 "go play wow eazzzy mode". And that from someone who created the account in December 2013. See you in a few months after reality kicks in.

Not only that, most of the people who say that probably couldn't get 3v3 arena gladiator if their lives depended on it. PvE wise some of the content in wow, even the 5 man stuff at various time periods, is far far more challenging than anything in path.

Ah I love to start my mornings seeing GGG white knights getting #rekt

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manfromhell666 wrote:

Really man,

go play world of warcraft if you WANT it the easy way.

i am glad i found a game that is actually hard to progress.

99% of the games nowadays are easy and made for the mass to make money.

POE is like that, it might take a lot of hours of gaming before you get something good, but thats how i like it.

all your statistics only shows that if you put as much effort in the game than building this post, you would probably have 100 exalt by now.

and who cares if the player base is droping. they cant please everyone. if you dont like the game, dont play it, its not like you paid anything. you dont even have the right to complain.

GGG have made what blizzard couldnt and without the infinite pool of $$$ that blizzard have access to. they deserve a donation if you like the game, and they deserve that you stop polluting their forums and scare potential players.

Go buy a teddy bear and find a cloud to float on it.

UNBELIEVABLE

Exactly this, best response, THE only response needed here.
Im still loving poe because it isnt an easy faceroll like every other game on the market.
I am so sick of easy crap. The easier a game is the more boring it gets .
I loved wow back in the day, these days the mere mention of the game embalmes me with rage like the hulk..

The problem these days is kids and unskilled gamers want everything easy FOR THEM. Us gamers get the shaft. Im so sick of it. Poe caters to the gamer, LEAVE IT THAT WAY and go play hello kitty

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skullcrush wrote:

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manfromhell666 wrote:

Really man,

go play world of warcraft if you WANT it the easy way.

i am glad i found a game that is actually hard to progress.

99% of the games nowadays are easy and made for the mass to make money.

POE is like that, it might take a lot of hours of gaming before you get something good, but thats how i like it.

all your statistics only shows that if you put as much effort in the game than building this post, you would probably have 100 exalt by now.

and who cares if the player base is droping. they cant please everyone. if you dont like the game, dont play it, its not like you paid anything. you dont even have the right to complain.

GGG have made what blizzard couldnt and without the infinite pool of $$$ that blizzard have access to. they deserve a donation if you like the game, and they deserve that you stop polluting their forums and scare potential players.

Go buy a teddy bear and find a cloud to float on it.

UNBELIEVABLE

Exactly this, best response, THE only response needed here.
Im still loving poe because it isnt an easy faceroll like every other game on the market.
I am so sick of easy crap. The easier a game is the more boring it gets .
I loved wow back in the day, these days the mere mention of the game embalmes me with rage like the hulk..

The problem these days is kids and unskilled gamers want everything easy FOR THEM. Us gamers get the shaft. Im so sick of it. Poe caters to the gamer, LEAVE IT THAT WAY and go play hello kitty

so according to you being able to put with mindless grind is a skill ?

With an attitude like that no wonder your avatar is a skull. You body died of boredom 30 years ago

1. Why would you chance a unique if you can just buy it? Most people don't even know that you can chance a unique. Why would this be a bad thing, since most people aren't in end game they wouldn't be trying to chance glorious plates or siege axes for the high end ones.

2. level 20 skill gem is an insane amount of grinding, if most people stop before merc act 3 then yeah they'll never get to a level 20 skill gem. It's a goal to reach if you want to be the most powerful, that isn't a "bad thing."

3. 6 links are rare, that's exactly how it should work. Most of the 6 links on the market are dropped pre 6-linked, nobody actually 6-link items on a normal basis to resell to other people. Yet again most people don't make it to the part of the game were 6-link are even possible.

Your last 3 statistics are misleading people that theses 3 points are what people are suppose to have fun in the game as oppose to actual player attention rate over a long period of time and at what point they quit.

Lmao, preach.