Zeitgeist is WAY off. As of right now, other sources like game-monitor.com are reporting 6-7 thousand players and in the evenings (USA) it hits 12k.
-Dustin On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:47 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been following the custom tab topic through the digest for a few > weeks. In general, I agree that the custom tab seems like a really bad > idea. However, Valve probably figured that they had to do _something_ to > try to get players back. Take a look at the history graph that Zeitgeist > keeps for online FPSes: > > http://www.onlinegamingzeitgeist.com/games/ > > TF2 has gone from a high of 3rd overall to 19th. It has seen its online > player count go from from a high of 11,000 players back in late October down > below 1,400 players today, and the slide shows no sign of stopping. It's > slid so far, you have to go down to the bottom graph in order to get a good > view of its current status. Meanwhile, CS and CS: are dominating the charts > with online player counts at 95,000 and 50,000 respectively. (#3 CoD4 is > hovering a bit below 15,000.) > > I don't think it's any single event that's driving the player count down. > Personally, I just don't find the game as much fun to keep playing over the > long haul as I thought I would. Based upon this chart, I'm clearly not > alone in feeling that way. > > I wish I could put my finger on why the mod is doing so badly. Personally, > I thought the original TF on QW was a fantastic mod. I played it to death > and played a lot of TFC, too. (TFC, btw, is chugging along with just under > 1,000 players.) > > The implication of all this is that we TF2 server administrators have to ask > ourselves whether it's worth our time to keep our servers up if we can't > keep them populated. The custom tab fiasco hasn't helped what is clearly a > bad situation. Personally, I'm just about ready to shut my TF2 server down > and find a game that people actually want to play. > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
