You're confusing snapshots with weekly averages. It's been my experience that weekly averages tend to run lower than daily or up to date numbers. As to how he gathers his data? From Zeitgeist's "About" page:
"What the scripts on this website do is visit the Gamespy Stats page once an hour and grab its data. Then, at the end of each day, new graphics are generated, updating the page. With these graphics, it's possible to see how a the online presence of certain games - and its community, consequentially - is born, increases, decreases, and dies. This is not a 100% scientifically accurate representation, though. No online gaming stats are; in this case, this one only covers the servers known to GameSpy (regardless of server connection client). Other sources with similar information will have slightly different results. Still, I think the overall player flow is pretty much enough to detect the transformations on online gaming usage." I've checked GameSpy's snapshot data against the two that you linked on more than one occasion. Generally, I've found that the three sites track reasonably closely. I'd wager that if you took the time to collect data from Server Spy and Game Monitor the same way that Zeitgeist has done for GameSpy, you'd get very similar results. I'm positive that the broad trends would definitely track very closely. > Another source: http://www.serverspy.net/site/stats/ > > > -Dustin > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Dustin Wyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >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 >> _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
