Do I want to invest 3 months in building upĪ game presence for a game that probably won't be around in 6 months?Ģ. I used it successfully for several years. 20 years of playing countless games at all hours has shown me a common pattern of decay. how many old folks can actually stay awake at their 3-4am consistently?ġ. Ok, the only remaining dudes are retirees. If you do have a job, it's impossible to play a game at local 3-4am. If you dont have a job, then I think finding a job is more important than playing a game, no matter it's wows or now. If you are a student, do you need to take your class the next day? unless your class is in the afternoon. How many ppl actually play games at their local 3am/4am? not many, or I should say very very few. Note: If you're hanging on to a game and hoping it doesn't die,
Use the Steam Charts anytime to see how healthy a game is. These days almost every game has a Steam presence. Sure, some games never die, but go there and play and you get a handful of toxics If nobody is playing in the middle of the night, the game is probably not addictive, I have never judged a game's health by it's peak.Ĭome in at 3-4am and see how long it takes to get a match. The point is that peak times don't show the full picture of the game's health. This is just illustrative, and if numbers were produced for the 24-hour it may show no decrease at all. So even though only 500 players less were on at peak, which is inconsequential, over the whole 24-hour period it would be nearly -9000 players (perhaps more significant). Or not.īy which I mean if peaks was say 15,000 NA and the bookends around peak were say 9k, and then the bookends around them were 7k and the dead zone was say 5k and that was our average (5/7/9/15/9/7/5*) *this 5 doesn't count, it's the same as the first 5 being the dead zone, it's just there to illustrate) then we would have a daily of some 52,000 playersĪnd then the numbers now were (3/6/7/14.5/7/6) then we would have a daily of 43,500 players. Peaks may remain fairly stable, or if high might lose numbers that don't make a drastic difference, while times outside of peak might see a different kind of bleed that adds up.
Peak is not a good number, but if you have some comparable 24-hour totals then they might be interesting.
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