While this is a case of "he said, she said" until someone comes up with the proof...I check the stats fairly often, and I've never seen TF2 below 4k players at any time of the day. It'd be difficult to obtain an average of less than 2k in that case.
You're also ignoring the plain fact that as of RIGHT NOW gamespy is reporting less than a third of the TF2 players than either of the two other sources report while at the same time tracking the other sources pretty closely on other games -Dustin On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:10 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
