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[AllThatJazz]

Kuroi Kenshi wrote...

hhh89 wrote...

Filament wrote...

Are people cheating again? ~800k seems quite a jump.

It reached 1million and 100k. The cut it to 760-770k.

Why the hell was that?? I already saw 1.2 Milion and now is on 790k
It's a marketing stunt or there is a valid reason for that??

Yes, I saw this too. What's happening? 

[Kuroi Kenshi]

Rath_01 wrote...

Kuroi Kenshi wrote...

hhh89 wrote...

Filament wrote...

Are people cheating again? ~800k seems quite a jump.

But i though that only logins are suppused to count, unless they are creting accounts just for that
It reached 1million and 100k. The cut it to 760-770k.

Why the hell was that?? I already saw 1.2 Milion and now is on 790k
It's a marketing stunt or there is a valid reason for that??

Well people are spamming the downloads and they are supposedly cutting out the spam downloads but I dont think anybody really knows the real number at this point:blink:

I though that only logins count towards the numbers

Modifié par Kuroi Kenshi, 25 février 2011 - 09:40 .

[cyric013]

Some person or persons have been fooling with the counter by "faking" a download more or less

[Taluien]

I just hope they do read out the data that says how many accounts played the demo now. In that case nearly 800k would be a great number and it could be entirely doable to achieve 1 million.



If they still dont do that, we can stop giving a damn about the counter at all and should just promote the game to those who we think could enjoy it on our own, no matter if we get these, let's say it, minor boosts to XP and $$ from the books. Oh, and by the way, a book that generates money? I need to have one in real life, it would be one of my most read books.

[GuardianofSouls]

It is a shame it is even possible to mess with the numbers. The page clearly states "To get your download counted, you will need to log into your EA account while playing the demo." To be able to fake it means that their statement is incorrect and they didn't program the counter to link properly to the EA login servers and the Demo.

The counter should have worked as 1 EA account with 1 demo = 1 on the counter.
Apparently it works as 1 download = 1 on the counter.

Modifié par GuardianofSouls, 25 février 2011 - 09:17 .

[Dave of Canada]

AllThatJazz wrote...

Why the hell was that?? I already saw 1.2 Milion and now is on 790k
It's a marketing stunt or there is a valid reason for that??

Yes, I saw this too. What's happening?

Counter increases each time somebody presses the download link on the main page, guy made it so it would constantly open up in the thousands to increase it to 1m+. They (or so they say) remove the duplicates.

Modifié par Dave of Canada, 25 février 2011 - 09:31 .

[AllThatJazz]

cyric013 wrote...

Some person or persons have been fooling with the counter by "faking" a download more or less

Okay, thanks. Well kudos to EA/Bioware/whoever runs/makes the decisions about the counter thingy for their honesty. They could have just let it go; most would be none the wiser, would they? 

[AllThatJazz]

[quote]Dave of Canada wrote...

[quote]AllThatJazz wrote...

Why the hell was that?? I already saw 1.2 Milion and now is on 790k
It's a marketing stunt or there is a valid reason for that??
[/quote]

Yes, I saw this too. What's happening?
[/quote]

Counter increases each time somebody presses the download link on the main page, guy made it so it would constantly open up in the thousands to increase it to 1m+. They (or so they say) remove the duplicates.
[/quote]

Oh. Well that explains that, then. Cheers Dave. 

[flexxdk]

Kuroi Kenshi wrote...

hhh89 wrote...

Filament wrote...

Are people cheating again? ~800k seems quite a jump.

It reached 1million and 100k. The cut it to 760-770k.

Why the hell was that?? I already saw 1.2 Milion and now is on 790k
It's a marketing stunt or there is a valid reason for that??

People spammed the counter with multiple downloads.

It's a fairly good reason to roll back the counter.

[FieryDove]

The person/people doing the fake downloads to drive up the numbers really want these items.

[stephen1493]

That account spammer is Batman.



Breaking the law, for the common man.

[jamirflyd2]

And I thought we were all so close!!! >.<

[Carlthestrange]

What the heck are these books anyway? Off hand buff items or just codex entries?

[jamirflyd2]

Carlthestrange wrote...

What the heck are these books anyway? Off hand buff items or just codex entries?

They give points that make you more powerful!!!!!

[Taluien]

stephen1493 wrote...

That account spammer is Batman.

Breaking the law, for the common man.

To the Hackcave?!

[Icy Magebane]

FieryDove wrote...

The person/people doing the fake downloads to drive up the numbers really want these items.

The items are fairly useless... I think it's more likely that somebody out there just likes to screw with people.

[james1976]

jamirflyd2 wrote...

Carlthestrange wrote...

What the heck are these books anyway? Off hand buff items or just codex entries?

They give points that make you more powerful!!!!!

In a game that is already easy...if the demo is any indication.

[Phoenixblight]

james1976 wrote...

jamirflyd2 wrote...

Carlthestrange wrote...

What the heck are these books anyway? Off hand buff items or just codex entries?

They give points that make you more powerful!!!!!

In a game that is already easy...if the demo is any indication.

The demo is not any indication because aits a few builds behind, thats not saying normal will be difficult because normal has never been difficult. Thats why I will be playing on Hard, don't want to worry about group make up quit yet to go with Nightmare, maybe my next playthrough. 

Carlthestrange wrote...

What the heck are these books anyway? Off hand buff items or just codex entries?

Read the front page. The items give gold and xp and possibly a codex entry. 

Modifié par Phoenixblight, 25 février 2011 - 11:55 .

[FaeQueenCory]

Chris Priestly wrote...

People continue to try to spam teh numbers. We catch and remove the false numbers.

A sad face!
The saddest face!!!

And I was all excited that it said over 1,000,000.......... (I also wonder if my playing the demo twice while logged in contributed to the false numbers... I hope not!)

[cactusberry]

If it goes by accounts, what about people who don't have EA accounts?

[Landamskarn]

TheDarkRats wrote...

If it goes by accounts, what about people who don't have EA accounts?

They wouldn't get counted.

[Rayne Myria Solo]

godlike13 wrote...

Ya, big businesses are just bad.

Right because everyone knows big businesses are horrible. I mean, they put us all in this mess we're in right? No business has ever done anything to help a country be better or y'know employ anyone or anything like that. None of them ever do good things, ever, let's all continue to hate on them (but by the game anyway).

I swear...some people...

[Teknykk]

ScorpSt wrote...

Reptillius wrote...

Dr. Chaos wrote...

Unlike halo, COD, Gears of War, that get that many copies sold in just the first week or so. It is just one of those sad facts of life that the RPG genre may actually die out.

Don't you say that. Don't you ever say that.

*holds back tears*

Keep in mind that many of those games their sales also drop off to nearly nothing after that initial rush. The rush lasting depending on availability of copies. A little longer when copies are a bit harder to come by.  Other game genre's don't quite follow that same trend with exception of maybe sports games.

So RPG's aren't necessarily going to go anywhere just because they don't have quite the same initial burst that certain others do.

Very true. Most RPGs spread in popularity by word-of-mouth, while shooters are typically so hype-blasted that people can't help but make it a day 1 purchase and then stop playing it when they get bored with it or when another hype-blasted FPS comes out. Menewhile people are still buying and playing RPGs from10 years ago.

The RPG genre will never die out really...difference between an FPS and an RPG is mainly the fact that when people get bored of an FPS, it does die out...look at Crysis and Crysis Wars online...there's a few stragglers here and there, but it might as well be dead...it's worse for Unreal Tournament III...whereas people are still playing games like Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Diablo...etc, countless years after the "hype" for them ended.

You can always go back to an RPG and still enjoy it...FPS games...they eventually die to a point where you might as well uninstall it/snap the disc in half. Even if sale numbers are higher for FPS...it's a short-lived thing compared to RPG's that tend to last a lifetime because of how memorable they are.

Modifié par Nelhtrak, 26 février 2011 - 01:19 .

[SmokePants]

You can make as many EA accounts as you have e-mail addresses. And it's not like it's hard to get e-mail addresses.

[didymos1120]

Kuroi Kenshi wrote...

I though that only logins count towards the numbers

Yes, which is why the counter must be periodically adjusted. It's a simple javascript click counter.  There is no backend code that validates actual logins.  They're doing it themselves every so often.