Interesting XFire stats

Rifle123

XFire's bonus stat this month shows something that took me by total surprise.  The bonus stat shows "The Top 10 Subscription MMORPG Games by average hours played daily (excluding WoW)" and three of SOE's games are there.  SWG, Everquest II, and Everquest.  The interesting part is the order they show.

SWG is ranked fourth, and is the highest ranked.  Everquest II ranks sixth and the original Everquest comes in at number 10.

So assuming the percentage of XFire users is about the same across SOE games, and they should be considering Station Pass, SWG is SOE's flagship product?  Either SWG is doing better than many of us think, or the rest of SOE products are in really, really bad shape.

http://www.xfire.com/cms/stats/

 

Discuss.

 

xxthecorexx

SWG does not even come close to ranking in the top 10 mmos. it just means SWG players use xfire to talk to their friends because there's nobody left in game to talk to.

 

seriously tho.. xfire stats are subject to the demographic of the types of players that use it.

Czzarre

I agree, If you see someone showing "Stats" that do not make sense. It is more likely that the stats are wrong (or manuipulated) than it is that something so improbable is correct.

Remember that the next time you see all those policical Polls on Fox News and CNN.

Torrential

Soldarith

I really dislike it when someone quotes XFire game stats. Not everybody uses XFire or runs it constantly when they are playing a game. Some games like Hellgate have an XFire login built into the game client, but for those of us who don't use it, it doesn't really increase the accurately of the stats for that title.

The only thing XFire stats show are what XFire members are playing. Period. It does not show how many people overall play game ABC compared to XYZ; it only shows what their members play. It does not indicate how popular games are. And even their own stats are skewed because you cannot guarantee that each game has an equal number of XFire members playing them; not to mention that some games' time commitments are completely different (FPS like Battlefield 2142 verses an MMO like EverQuest), so time spent playing them will be at different ends of the spectrum.

Aristea

@ Soldarith.

Polls and statistics are all taken from a random average of the population. For example, tests that ask the question "how often do you eat junkfood ?" are asked among a very small selection of people, we are talking less than percentages. The results of this test however, will be published as a "close enough to be true" fact for the entire country/nation the test was held.

Xfire might be only popular among rpg'rs, or fps'rs, or whatever. Fact is, they don't select their public, so in all fairness, it could be just as accurate as it could be inaccurate. It's more likely to be accurate, because it reaches the entire world and forms an average on its own.

Gammit100

I'm sure that SWG having a small population has something to do with these statistics.  These players probably want to either communicate with their friends who are playing other games, or they are trying to stay as close-knit as possible in a world of dwindling populations.  A great way to stay close-knit is to use a chat program that works cross-servers.

Of course, now that SOE has an all-game chat system, that point may become moot very soon.