XFire MMO stats graphed

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May 042007
 

Courtesy of Calvin, a look over time at those controversial XFire stats from the last post.

  6 Responses to “XFire MMO stats graphed”

  1. soon to be a noted futurist says:
    May 7, 2007 at 7:27 pm

    Mr. Koster

  2. Moses Moore says:
    May 4, 2007 at 2:11 pm

    Perhaps person-hours will be a better measurement of an MMOs success than the slippery # of subscribers. (q.f. http://www.mmogchart.com/ )

  3. brinking - nabeel hyatt says:
    May 4, 2007 at 6:05 pm

    What makes an online game a “casual MMOG”…

    What way to better signal that you are going to be the NEXT BIG THING than to say you are creating a casual MMOG. Everyone from big media, to venture capital, to former supply-chain logistics project managers seem to be trying to get into the world of …

  4. M Grey says:
    May 4, 2007 at 7:19 pm

    Perhaps person-hours will be a better measurement of an MMOs success than the slippery # of subscribers.

    That depends on your perspective and, in turn, your definition of success. Success could mean that the people who play your game spend a lot of time doing so, regardless of how many of them there are.

    Success could also mean that a lot of people like your game well enough to continue paying for it, regardless of how much time they spend actually playing.

  5. Grimwell says:
    May 5, 2007 at 9:35 am

    This is interesting, when taken in perspective. It’s a self-selecting selection of the gaming audience. Does it represent the whole accurately? Not sure, but I like that it’s there.

    It is vulnerable to ‘gaming the system’ though… If I were to make a push with the EQII players, I could get more of them to install and faithfully use Xfire to bolster the numbers of my game… corrupting that self-selecting pool of gamers who use Xfire because they like it. For the record, I like Xfire. A lot.

  6. Textual Blathering at MMOG Nation says:
    May 26, 2007 at 8:56 am

    […] Soo … for some unknowable reason, I’ve been invited to participate in a chat over at XFire. You know, the gaming service with the stats Raph likes? […]

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