opengames.asp stats wrong ???

By DemiCom on June 27, 2009 2:40:51 PM from

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lets look at these stats: http://www.demigodthegame.com/opengames.asp

in this moment there are :

3200 players online

73 games in progress

10 games waiting for launch

-> 4-10 players / game

-> use simple mathematics and you know that there are only around 500 people involved in DG games !

-> so what are the other 2700 doing ?

-> are they waiting for better weather ?

-> or is "3200" the number of people with launched Impulse ????

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hmm... good question? Any chance for some clarification, SD?

Frogboy is too scared to come to the forums. The negative topics have really gone up lately, lol .

2700 are the people outside the lobby looking for a game to join in the game browser.

1 player in skirmish, 1 player in pantheon queue (sounds about right), and 2500+ lurking in Custom, despite there being only 8 open games? Riiiight.

I mean, even if just 100 of those players hit the host-button, the number of open rooms would skyrocket. Everything but the total # of online players seem right.

or some people like weekends off, but yea, that number seems really off

The numbers are made up to increase sales. If there's 2.5k people lurking in the custom game lobby, why does it sometimes take 5+ minutes to get a game full? Why are there like 3-8 games up all the time? Anybody can see that they are fake, or counted totally wrong, i.e. everybody who has impulse opened and owns demigod is counted as "online".

i doubt the numbers are made up, but its obviously counting some statistic that wouldn't logically follow. I'd hope there are more than 3200 people globablly that have impulse open right now, but there surely aren't 3200 lurking waiting to get in a demigod game...

its also a strange thing with the "sales"

frogboy said, that there are around 100.000 sales until Euro-release.

if this is true, DG should have around 150.000 sales until now

but look at the "Top Players" stats....there are only 23.000 players registrated in Costum/Ladder games....I cant believe that the sales are true...

Stats are messed up and in general only like 1% of people who play games play then online. But DG is a bit more multiplayer orientated so it has a solid 5%.

23K out of 150K is 15%...

Anyway, having 2700-2800 lurkers with 3200 people online means 85% of online players are not really playing which is pretty much impossible. Those 2700-2800 people are not in lobby waiting for a game. They might be playing single player but then that is a wrong way to look at online players. Online player can only be someone who has logged in to the server from ingame and hasn't logged off or timed out.

23K out of 150K is 15%...

Indeed

quoting post

-> or is "3200" the number of people with launched Impulse ????

This is probably the case. Every player who is logged into Impulse and has Demigod registered in their account will be counted. Nothing wrong with that, since many of those people just join the demigod chat or use the Impulse game browser to join games.

So the stats are not "wrong". Maybe they should just add a "players in game" (meaning all players that have launched Demigod and are logged in) figure.

I ve found something :

frogboy said in a former journal: "As I write this, there are 3,211 people currently either playing Demigod games online, waiting for games, or in lobbies. During peak hours, it???ll get to around double that."

https://forums.demigodthegame.com/356743

so its clear, its a hoax !
because there are only 500-600 people playing DG games online, waiting for games, or in lobbys

Frogboys new nick shall be Ratboy, because he lies.

Quoting DemiCom,

reply 13

I ve found something :
frogboy said in a former journal: "As I write this, there are 3,211 people currently either playing Demigod games online, waiting for games, or in lobbies. During peak hours, it’ll get to around double that."
https://forums.demigodthegame.com/356743
so its clear, its a hoax !
because there are only 500-600 people playing DG games online, waiting for games, or in lobbys

Hmmm - possible that he doesn't know exactly what those numbers represent? I don't know. Hope we can get an explanation on Monday. Doubt we will with comments like "ratboy"

Quoting pacov,

reply 15

Hmmm - possible that he doesn't know exactly what those numbers represent? I don't know. Hope we can get an explanation on Monday. Doubt we will with comments like "ratboy"

I'm sure Ratbo....I mean Frogboy has a good sense of humor .

The number is the number of people online with Demigod in one form or other.

It's the equivalent of the stats page here:

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/ (click on individual games).

It's the number of people who have Demigod opened and have logged in. It has nothing to do with Impulse itself.

The previous page only displayed the # of people logged into a single beta server. The new one displays the # of users on all of the servers. If you don't believe it, then don't. Not to be rude but we don't really care.

BTW Izzo and others, as long time forum members can tell you, I have no problem banning people for pissing me off.

Hhehehe . I'll be good...

Quoting Frogboy,

reply 18

BTW Izzo and others, as long time forum members can tell you, I have no problem banning people for pissing me off.

Lies.

Frogboy is bluffing. If he banned people for pissing him off, I wouldn't be here.

Well ok, there you have it then straight from the frog. Right this second there are 3,385 people globally that have demigod opened and are logged in. Impulse has nothing to do with the stat. Currently 10 open games and 78 in progress. Thanks for the clarification Frogboy!

I remember you being banned for the most part of the beta Slurple

all right frogboy ! thx for clearing

So I am guessing about 3000 people play this game SP only all day then..

Nope... remember, you don't have to log into demigog to play SP...

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opengames.asp stats wrong ???