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[Shelled]

Can a bioware employee disclose how many players there are on average/peak on the PC platform? With recent information?

From what I recall the person in charge of weekend events has such information. Is it possible they can make that information public?

[TormDK]

What would be the point Shelled? To get some "I told you so!!111!!" data?

[Kenny Bania]

I don't think it would be pretty if they did.

[Zorinho20_CRO]

If that would be some enormous number,I am pretty sure they would share it.For bragging rights.

But alas...

[scene_cachet]

I would probably say the 10 who play on pc and post here are pretty much the extent of the community left on PC. 

 

And PS4 is the master race.

[DrKilledbyDeath]

 

And PS4 is the master race.

 Master race! Bow down to us.

[TormDK]

The many can never be the master race.

 

We are small and elite (1337 I suppose ), we do not need your silly numbers.

[Pheabus2009]

Even they can, numbers show you nothing, cuz the game is region-locked, you CANNOT play with people in other regions.

All that matters is "How many people play on pc in MY region?".

[Eelectrica]

Less then 4000.
The community challenge was 25k druffaloe kills, pc got around 24k.
the personal goal was 6. And a few people would have got a lot more than the 6 required...

[Silversmurf]

around 4-6 players

[McPartyson]

I post here but I don't really play MP anymore. I'll give it another go if the DLC is significant. So -1.

 

I still play the campaign though.

[Senor Pez]

Look at Twitch. Last weekend there were more streams of people playing Super Mario 64 than Dragon Age Inquisition. And not all the DAI streams were DAIMP.

That's a really bad sign.

[SpaceV3gan]

Region-Lock f*cks everything. There is a significant number of people playing from Eastern Europe, Asia, Australia and South America that can never be matched with yall because of this damn discriminatory matchmaking.

[TormDK]

I get matched with people in eastern europe just fine Vegan.

 

A bit too much for my personal tastes in fact.

[veramis]

Less then 4000.
The community challenge was 25k druffaloe kills, pc got around 24k.
the personal goal was 6. And a few people would have got a lot more than the 6 required...

 

We were a few hundred away from completing it. I don't know if the community challenge counted each druffalo kill as one point, or as many points as there are teammates in the game or which assisted in killing or killed the druffalo. If we assume each druffalo kill counts as four points, and say players do on average four games per hour with one druffalo in each game, it would take almost 6,250 hours collectively played to complete the challenge. Ignore that not all druffalo kills were by teams with 4 players and ignore that not all games resulted in a dead druffalo, or assume they cancel each other out. Divided by the 72 (?) hour duration of the challenge, that's 87 collectively played hours per hour, or almost 87 players on at the same time when averaged out.

 

If we assume the average number of hours played per day by each player is 1 hour, that's almost 2083 players (I know this isn't the right way to do the math, but you get the point).

 

If we assume each druffalo kill counts as ONE point instead of four, that's almost 347 players on at the same time when averaged out, or almost 8333 players.

 

If I made any mistakes please correct me . And yes I know there's a lot of assumptions here which people might disagree with, and I wouldn't be surprised if there might be anywhere from 1,000-20,000 "people who still play DA3MP on PC" (however you want to define it), but you can tweak around as you like to get a number you think is closer to the truth. So please don't argue with me about my own choices in assumptions.

[smooth_operator]

This is why Steam is the ultimate gaming platform. I honestly believe that Sony, MS should drop their consoles and just make steam machines.  EA should ditch origin and put their entire catalog on Steam.  Nobody will ever be able to top Steam as a gaming service.  All of these fragmented services and with unreliable networks and subpar features. You want to know how many people are playing a game and what the peak is?  It is literally two clicks away from the Steam start page.

[wolfsite]

This is why Steam is the ultimate gaming platform. I honestly believe that Sony, MS should drop their consoles and just make steam machines.  EA should ditch origin and put their entire catalog on Steam.  Nobody will ever be able to top Steam as a gaming service.  All of these fragmented services and with unreliable networks and subpar features. You want to know how many people are playing a game and what the peak is?  It is literally two clicks away from the Steam start page.

 

No thanks I'll take having actual Customer Support and a money back guarantee and a publisher that still makes actual games over Steam any day.

[SpaceV3gan]

I get matched with people in eastern europe just fine Vegan.

 

A bit too much for my personal tastes in fact.

 

You live in Scandinavia, that must be the reason. The busiest public lobby I've ever played in was from a friend from Norway, pugs were literally flocking to play Perilous on a Sunday morning. I think you guys can get players from both West and East Europe as well as parts of North America, so the region-lock may go unnoticed. I've seen quite a few Eastern Europeans complaining of having a hard time finding games, so they might have a different perspective.

[smooth_operator]

No thanks I'll take having actual Customer Support and a money back guarantee and a publisher that still makes actual games over Steam any day.

 

It doesnt matter one bit if Valve is still making games or not.  What matters is that they made the greatest gaming service/platform/community known to mankind.  Sure EA is desperate enough to give you a money back guarantee after being voted the worst company in America a couple times.  Even then the games are still more expensive. Steam is the Babylon of the gaming community right now.  MS and Sony WISH they were Valve right now.  Oculus is about to wish they were Valve also when they realize their VR headset is homeless.

[wolfsite]

It doesnt matter one bit if Valve is still making games or not.  What matters is that they made the greatest gaming service/platform/community known to mankind.  Sure EA is desperate enough to give you a money back guarantee after being voted the worst company in America a couple times.  Even then the games are still more expensive. Steam is the Babylon of the gaming community right now.  MS and Sony WISH they were Valve right now.  Oculus is about to wish they were Valve also when they realize their VR headset is homeless.

 

RANT incoming.

 

As far as I'm concerned Steam ruined PC gaming.  Steam implemented DRM and also implemented EULA which took away the customers rights to own our games.  It also created people like you who praise it no matter who many more consumer rights they remove or how many times they troll the fanbase by overpromising and under-delivering on products and tech.  As far as I am concerned Valve is the worst thing to happen to PC Gaming.

 

Hell I sent a ticket to Steam support about an issue I had with a game I bought and they sent back a cease and desist threatening to ban my account because they just assumed I was trying to circumvent the DRM which I wasn't (but it was proven the DRM was stopping the game from running) so Support was useless and with no money back guarantee I got shafted.

 

At least with Origin I can talk with real people about an issue and be treated with the respect a consumer deserves.

[smooth_operator]

RANT incoming.

 

As far as I'm concerned Steam ruined PC gaming.  Steam implemented DRM and also implemented EULA which took away the customers rights to own our games.  It also created people like you who praise it no matter who many more consumer rights they remove or how many times they troll the fanbase by overpromising and under-delivering on products and tech.  As far as I am concerned Valve is the worst thing to happen to PC Gaming.

 

Hell I sent a ticket to Steam support about an issue I had with a game I bought and they sent back a cease and desist threatening to ban my account because they just assumed I was trying to circumvent the DRM which I wasn't (but it was proven the DRM was stopping the game from running) so Support was useless and with no money back guarantee I got shafted.

 

At least with Origin I can talk with real people about an issue and be treated with the respect a consumer deserves.

 

 

You will have to excuse Steam for being rather cynical but before Valve got involved, PC gaming was a jungle.  Cheaters, pirates and hackers everywhere. Steam now has over 100 million users and a huge target now, so they have to make sure their networks are secure, which is more than I can say for the other gaming companies. You get the games super dirt cheap, sometimes even free. The service itself is free and Origin pales in comparison to the community. You should be happy that Valve saved PC gaming and probably console gaming too.  Not just for the gamers but for the developers too.

[veramis]

Smooth_operator, I have to say I agree very much with steam being much better than origin. Please stay on topic though lol.

[smooth_operator]

Smooth_operator, I have to say I agree very much with steam being much better than origin. Please stay on topic though lol.

 

I thought I was on topic. I'm really just saying what everyone is thinking anyway.

[wolfsite]

You will have to excuse Steam for being rather cynical but before Valve got involved, PC gaming was a jungle.  Cheaters, pirates and hackers everywhere. Steam now has over 100 million users and a huge target now, so they have to make sure their networks are secure, which is more than I can say for the other gaming companies. You get the games super dirt cheap, sometimes even free. The service itself is free and Origin pales in comparison to the community. You should be happy that Valve saved PC gaming and probably console gaming too.  Not just for the gamers but for the developers too.

 

I should be happy they don't offer refunds?

I should be happy Steam removed my ability to legally own games?

I should Steam introduced programs that low quality developers have abused to get shovelware flooded onto the service?

I should be happy they created early access so now instead of paying gamers to alpha and beta test there games the player has to pay to playtest games?

I should be happy that Early access actually allows the developer to walk away from a project with all the money without having to worry about making a final product?

I should be happy the main Steam page assaults me with curaters and other garbage telling me what games I should buy?

I should be happy with no customer support?

I should be happy wit Steam Machines when I could build a better system myself at a cheaper price?

I should be happy with Steam Machines when they could flood the market confusing consumers which causes them to no buy the product like what happen in the Video Game crash of 1983?  By the way this can really hurt PC gaming if it pushes people to consoles.

I should be happy that whenever Valve is found in court of breaching consumer rights policies that they just change there EULA and force you to agree to it if you want to continue playing your games you purchased before leaving you with even fewer rights?

 

 

Being happy about any of these is just being stupid.

 

 

Oh ya and Valve/Steam was the first company to introduce Micro-transactions into a full retail price game by the way so you can thank them for that feature the industry is happily adopting.

 

 

 

Sorry for going off-topic but this blind loyalty to Steam is one of the major problems with the PC game community.

[MaLaK8305]

This game is dead. All of us know that. There is maybe 20-25 regulars perilous players in europe. It's just the truth. My friends and me, we know all the public players since january.

 

Continu to play if you like the game, but dont be blind : this game is definitly dead. I bet we're less than 2000 regular players IN THE WORLD now. It's a fact.

 

Maybe more content will come in 2054 (...) , stay tuned.