Age of Conan

Polls proves to be a usefull way to collect the consensus of the MMORPG forums, so I made a poll to establish the consensus on why AoC numbers seem to have stabilized in Xfire as well as it now also seem to increase. 3 of the 4 last days there have in fact been a positive increase in the order of 5-10% (10% today actually) compared to last week.

Kind of hard to drop below 5000 hours played huh. I guess any small increase is good news. Sort of like the stock price I guess. It drops 90% from its all time high a few months back but one day it gains a few cents and its great news. You did miss one thing on your poll. "The weather was bad ouside so you decided to play AoC." Good luck with your poll though.

The game is dead. Fundamentally flawed in so many ways. So much of the game that was promised still isn't even there. Not to mention its still overinstanced, and still a theme park game. Patches to fix performance won't fix it. Performance didn't kill the game, develop lies did. And so they have fallen from 1,000,000 to under 150,000

You ignore of course that Saturday was the lowest XFire AoC number in the history of the game. 

Your boosts signify, respectively, the 3rd worst, the 2nd worst, and 3rd worst days (measured week by week) in the game's history.

So all you can really draw from it for the last 7 days is:  4 days better, 3 days worse.  The game is finally (at lesat for one week) leveling off the playing/population drop. 

Since July this has happened twice:  the PvP patch and this week.  12 weeks of bleeding and 2 weeks of the status quo. 

Let XFire stabilize for 3 weeks and you might have something.

so now we ARE using xfire numbers to determine population...

you flip flop more than a politician

Originally posted by OrionMan

Polls proves to be a usefull way to collect the consensus of the MMORPG forums, so I made a poll to establish the consensus on why AoC numbers seem to have stabilized in Xfire as well as it now also seem to increase. 3 of the 4 last days there have in fact been a positive increase in the order of 5-10% (10% today actually) compared to last week.

 

Im sorry but there is no option in your poll for : The OP is using a surge in numbers on Xfire, albeit a tiny lil one, neglecting to mention that over all these numbers are still down.  Side Note: OP frequently says that XFIRE and I quote" DOENST MEAN ANYTHING" End quote, when the numbers are falling.

Here is a quote from Orionman on 9/24/08 on xfire. Hypocrisy at its finest. 

I agree. Xfire is useless and the data from those statistics are not very usefull for gauging of population numbers (in particular as AoC in fact also has some compatibility issues with Xfire). The 2% rise could however be good for one thing, which is to set an stopper for all these idiotic AoC xfire analysis posts. That's a blessing in itself

Explain yourself out of this one OrionMan????????

I also do not like these Xfire numbers. i have to admit one thing tough, that it is perhaps more than a funny coincidence that Xfire numbers suddenly stabilize or turn around at the same point the gamers report the game to have improved a lot. People are much more in favour for this game now compared to 1.5 months back

How many are using Xfire? I see many Xfire users on the WAR forum but none on the AoC pages. What does that mean?

To sum up Poll so fare:

AoC attracts old customers again due to the latest AoC performance increase: 25%

AoC attracts new customers due to word of mouth: 13%

AoC now retain it's current customer base much better due to improvements: 13%

WAR is loosing customers, some of these customers now turn to AoC: 10%

New customers are trickeling in as people are upgrading their hardware: 0%

Xfire trends are very irreliable and does not show anything: 39%

That is 56% belive AoC numbers increase due to population increase while 39% belive increased Xfire activity is nothing but a statistical irregularity.