Five Weeks into 0.2.0, POE2 is Down 93.2% Players All Time & 83.9% from Patch Launch

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Rabarbar_Lichy#7553 เขียน:

It's a data point so vague, with so much room for interpretation, that is almost irrelevant. You can spin into everyone leaving, you can spin into much maligned mid early access patch that beats new Doom on release.

The numbers obviously seem lower than expectations, but are also obviously fixable, kind of what early access is for.

I can tell you another anecdote, even I don't want to play too much to not burn myself out on unfinished game. I play exclusively because it draws me in so much, I actually planned to play 1 and do some weirder projects there during ea, and only play 2 to see how it progresses.

How many people just wait, for release, class, fixes, performance, whatever.

I have multiple early access games that I bought to support the development, but don't play, and know people doing the same. Etc etc

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Kraythax#2592 เขียน:

The non vocal majority quit the game. Not because it was "too easy" either. But because the design decisions being made are badly conceived.

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JarlaxleDaerthe#2435 เขียน:

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Urza_Mechwalker#7393 เขียน:

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JarlaxleDaerthe#2435 เขียน:

There is no debate about the half a million players who no longer log into PoE 2. The steam data confirms it.

Enjoy your break!

No it does not. That is just classic lack of understanding of number annalysis. What is says iis only on the name peak CONCURRENT. You can have the same number of people playing (not saying it it, just a theory exercise) and have a drastically reduced concurrent count because people are playing less hours.

As an example. LEts consider that there is 1 million players in a game and that they play on average 4 hours per day. Their tiem of day playing is spread uniformly troughout the day to make easier to calculate. You have an expected 166 thousand simultaneous players.

Now you keep the same 1 million players.. but they play only 1 hour per day, your average player count online will drop to 41 thousand.

It gets even more drastic when people stop playing all days and do some other stuff on some days (as sane people do after they have been playing a game for a while). If most people start playing every other day only then the count drops to 20 k... still with same 1 million players.

So no, unless you have access to GGG database you do not know how many people still play the game. All you know is that the total time players are online is reducing...

Also on a parallel point. THis game has a different demographic than POE1. It is dubm to use the same measurement. I always found weird that POE 1 players keep playing the game for months after a release. Most sane people do not play a game for more than a month before taking a break. POE2 probably has much more of this type of player, so only on a long run and with proper data that only GG has they can measure real player retention.

Just keep huffing that copium, I'm sure that all 40k of the concurrent players are the same 580k that initially started playing... especially on Friday nights and weekends.

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Tommo26#1554 เขียน:

We're super late into the league, even people who love the game will move on to something else until 0.3

Clowns.

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Tommo26#1554 เขียน:

We're super late into the league, even people who love the game will move on to something else until 0.3

Clowns.

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GabrielCorso#5386 เขียน:

LMAO, you think that GGG wants it's players to scale down to healthy playtimes or go play other games after a week?

Their MTX sales depend on player retention, no engaged playerbase=no money.

That's why you will never catch a dev talking about what is a healthy playtime in this model of monetization.