The number of X-Fire users playing WoW is 29K? That's not even close to a relevant sample size ;P For it to make ANY sense - we'd have to have a reliable population count for LoL - which there isn't unfortunately.
If LoL had anywhere NEAR the number of players that WoW has subs - they'd be crowing that number from the rooftops. All X-Fire tells us is that around .5% of the WoW playerbase uses it (and that's being conservative at 6 million ;P)
5% is a small sample size? Fuck me, they should rewrite the theory of statistics then. Do you even know that the voting estimates are made on usually a sample size with about 1000-2000 units? Out of what? 50 milion voters? WIth about 1% average deviation? Bottomline: 5% sample size is extremly accurate. Average, maximum reasonable deviation is probably within 0.1%.
People still use Xfire? I haven't signed onto that in years.
Well, it isn't like there's a whole host of overall player activity tools, is there? You have Steam (where I didn't see WoW in the list), Raptr, XFire and WoW Census (which only shows WoW info). So... it's either XFire or Raptr if you want to see a list of games and their accompanying player activity
Not that comparing it provides that trustworthy data, personally I only think that it has purely some value regarding trend developments within a game, emphasis on 'some'.
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums: Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
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5% is a small sample size? Fuck me, they should rewrite the theory of statistics then. Do you even know that the voting estimates are made on usually a sample size with about 1000-2000 units? Out of what? 50 milion voters? WIth about 1% average deviation? Bottomline: 5% sample size is extremly accurate. Average, maximum reasonable deviation is probably within 0.1%.
REALITY CHECK
What do people use besides X-fire? I use it because it's all I'vce heard about to track play time (not counting in game /played etc).
some ppl
Just barely. LoL still has more xFire players than WoW does and only about 2,000 minutes less.
Well, it isn't like there's a whole host of overall player activity tools, is there? You have Steam (where I didn't see WoW in the list), Raptr, XFire and WoW Census (which only shows WoW info). So... it's either XFire or Raptr if you want to see a list of games and their accompanying player activity
Not that comparing it provides that trustworthy data, personally I only think that it has purely some value regarding trend developments within a game, emphasis on 'some'.
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."