Age of Conan

Originally posted by OrionMan

Gents and Ladies of the forum

I know the consensus of this forum is that Xfire numbers is a very poor guideline for population numbers. That was conveyed to me very thoroughly yesterday when I posted a downward Xfire trend for WAR and I do agree that xfirenumbers are very hard to relate to anything (yet it is the only thing we have and it seems some hobby investors are looking to it as well). Anyway since Xfirenumbers this weeks tuesday was 5432 vs 5337 last tuesday (2% increase), I thought I'll post this as it is first time we have seen stabilization/increase since launch

http://www.xfire.com/games/aoc/Age_of_Conan_Hyborian_Adventures/

This is also in line what we have seen after launch of the PvP patch... We have seen activity increase..

I agree it does look like AoC's bleeding has begun to stop.  Based on the last couple weeks there is a definite flatening of the xfire stats.  Thats a good sign and good news! It must mean that funcoms latest efforts are starting to make headway and making the game good for players.  If they consolidate servers so there are more poeple around it might even start picking up.

Based on lvl 1-20 AoC could be a great game!!

Originally posted by GrayGhost79 

lol hope he's not bashing over in the War forums, that would hurt his stance that he isn't a FC employee.

If he wants to defend AoC and tell us not to bash things have changed he can't exactly do the same in another forum lol.

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Here he is talking about how there's a "compatibility" issue with AoC and xfire.

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Really, the guy is on a mission - make WAR look bad, make AoC look good.

What about the players that dont give a shit about xfire or other utterly useless programms?

Like , i dunno, me and at least 60 people i know of in AoC.

Come on, go  play some video game instead of trolling a forum....

Originally posted by Slythe

Originally posted by GrayGhost79 

lol hope he's not bashing over in the War forums, that would hurt his stance that he isn't a FC employee.

If he wants to defend AoC and tell us not to bash things have changed he can't exactly do the same in another forum lol.

 

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Here he is talking about how there's a "compatibility" issue with AoC and xfire.

www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/2337037#2337037

Really, the guy is on a mission - make WAR look bad, make AoC look good.

Meh, nothing new to this site that's for sure. I could look through quite a few people's history ( in this thread alone) and find them doing the same thing for WAR. This is normal for newer games in general, when lotro launched, the same thing happened just as the  case was for every other game released within the last few years. They all get overhyped, then tore down in turn. Some cases differ in severity(ie. AOC much worse than LOTRO), give it two more months and a few more releases, AOC won't even be a topic of discussion any more.

As for X-fire I feel the same in this case as any other. It really doesn't tell you much.

I am not a Hater but I hardly know someone that uses Xfire not here in Sweden anyway. So thos numbers for me dont meen a thing even it goes up or down.

 Lord Orion/OrionMan

Useless attempt at viral marketing.

Well this is my theory of XFire, take it or leave it.

What XFire presents is a look at a specific playing base. Concidering XFire is software you willingly download, it is more likely that it's usage would only increase overall instead of decrease (In other words, it is more likely people are downloading and using the program than removing it from their system) and that it shows the habits of the same group of people.

To me, this means it is normally useless to compare across games, but it becomes excellent to compare games to themselves, concidering it represents (generally speaking) the same people week to week.

So reguardless if it is having issues with certain players, those who are getting it to work, are still being tracked day to day.

So using XFire to compare a game (AOC) to itself over time will give you fairly accurate data of wether a game is growing or shrinking. The more data you have, the more accurate your observations become.

So when I look at the chart and right now it is at the second lowest point it has ever been? It looks to me that the PvP is not having a long term effect on the population. It is still slowly decreasing.

Thank you all for your time and have a good day.

You don't need XFIRE to go onto most AOC servers and see that they are complete ghost towns.

That's pretty much the bottom line right there.

Onionman is wrong as usual. Numbers are down compared to last week. Sep 22 - 4926 hrs versus 5619 hrs at Sep 15.  A 14% decrease since last week that is! So that's the quality of threads and posts in an AOC forum. Talking crap about a crappy game. Yay!!!!