After waiting for a day to check out this again for today. I would say that some of this might have been foul play (very little though). GW2 forum has 3 pages of topics that are being responded to just TODAY. 5 Pages responded to the past 2 days. Most of these topics are flamed (5+ pages long). Search engine bots, thus, are accounting for many more hits than normal, because many more people are posting. Plus, I personally was much more active lurking the GW2 forum yesterday than normal (probably 5-10 times more active). Even if foul play was invovled, it might have accounted for 5-10k hits. But none of this matters anyway, because the game is still getting at least twice as many hits as other games every day. (today its getting over 3x more hits than any other game).
EDIT: And it might drop a little today due to the 4 hour stress test
Yesterday GW2 finished at ~37,000, which is a loss of almost 70,000 supposedly unique hits. Inexplicably, it only gained about 1/3 of the hits of the previous day. These are supposed to be unique hits as well, so the same person coming to the site over and over should only register as one hit.
Clearly, those were not legitimate hits.
Or someone popular posted a link on their facebook page or something.
After waiting for a day to check out this again for today. I would say that some of this might have been foul play (very little though). GW2 forum has 3 pages of topics that are being responded to just TODAY. 5 Pages responded to the past 2 days. Most of these topics are flamed (5+ pages long). Search engine bots, thus, are accounting for many more hits than normal, because many more people are posting. Plus, I personally was much more active lurking the GW2 forum yesterday than normal (probably 5-10 times more active). Even if foul play was invovled, it might have accounted for 5-10k hits. But none of this matters anyway, because the game is still getting at least twice as many hits as other games every day. (today its getting over 3x more hits than any other game).
EDIT: And it might drop a little today due to the 4 hour stress test
Yesterday GW2 finished at ~37,000, which is a loss of almost 70,000 supposedly unique hits. Inexplicably, it only gained about 1/3 of the hits of the previous day. These are supposed to be unique hits as well, so the same person coming to the site over and over should only register as one hit.
Clearly, those were not legitimate hits.
Or someone popular posted a link on their facebook page or something.
wow!! first they attacked the B2P model, then the CS, then the gameplay, direct x9, the dodge mechanic, NCsoft's fianancial situation, Nexon's supposed "hostile takeover", and an endless list of other minutiae... now they're going after "illegitimate hits" on forums? *sigh
wow!! first they attacked the B2P model, then the CS, then the gameplay, direct x9, the dodge mechanic, NCsoft's fianancial situation, Nexon's supposed "hostile takeover", and an endless list of other minutiae... now they're going after "illegitimate hits" on forums? *sigh
While I like the game, you have to admit that the difference in the amount of hits between one day and the next is quite strange.
What are unique hits based upon? Different IP addresses? Would be incredibly easy to botch the numbers that way then.
wow!! first they attacked the B2P model, then the CS, then the gameplay, direct x9, the dodge mechanic, NCsoft's fianancial situation, Nexon's supposed "hostile takeover", and an endless list of other minutiae... now they're going after "illegitimate hits" on forums? *sigh
While I like the game, you have to admit that the difference in the amount of hits between one day and the next is quite strange.
What are unique hits based upon? Different IP addresses? Would be incredibly easy to botch the numbers that way then.
I guess I'll be more direct and to the point. They are hits on an online forum, who the f*ck cares!!! I could care less if GW2 was the at the top or at the bottom. Debating whether or not they are legitimate hits is just beyond me, how about we talk about something that actually matters...
P.S. Nothing against you Kamikazego, just don't understand why it matters what position games are on in a completely subjective hype-meter on an online forum.
wow!! first they attacked the B2P model, then the CS, then the gameplay, direct x9, the dodge mechanic, NCsoft's fianancial situation, Nexon's supposed "hostile takeover", and an endless list of other minutiae... now they're going after "illegitimate hits" on forums? *sigh
While I like the game, you have to admit that the difference in the amount of hits between one day and the next is quite strange.
What are unique hits based upon? Different IP addresses? Would be incredibly easy to botch the numbers that way then.
I guess I'll be more direct and to the point. They are hits on an online forum, who the f*ck cares!!! I could care less if GW2 was the at the top or at the bottom. Debating whether or not they are legitimate hits is just beyond me, how about we talk about something that actually matters...
P.S. Nothing against you Kamikazego, just don't understand why it matters what position games are on in a completely subjective hype-meter on an online forum.
I think people just care about the principal of the matter. It's fine if the hits are real and that many people have an interest in the game, but it's really pathetic if people are inflating the numbers. Honestly I don't care much either way, but it's still sad if it's true.
wow!! first they attacked the B2P model, then the CS, then the gameplay, direct x9, the dodge mechanic, NCsoft's fianancial situation, Nexon's supposed "hostile takeover", and an endless list of other minutiae... now they're going after "illegitimate hits" on forums? *sigh
While I like the game, you have to admit that the difference in the amount of hits between one day and the next is quite strange.
What are unique hits based upon? Different IP addresses? Would be incredibly easy to botch the numbers that way then.
I guess I'll be more direct and to the point. They are hits on an online forum, who the f*ck cares!!! I could care less if GW2 was the at the top or at the bottom. Debating whether or not they are legitimate hits is just beyond me, how about we talk about something that actually matters...
P.S. Nothing against you Kamikazego, just don't understand why it matters what position games are on in a completely subjective hype-meter on an online forum.
I think people just care about the principal of the matter. It's fine if the hits are real and that many people have an interest in the game, but it's really pathetic if people are inflating the numbers. Honestly I don't care much either way, but it's still sad if it's true.
I understand what you're saying, but its sad both ways:
Its sad if people are purposefully inflating the hype meter.
Its sad if people suspect others of purposefully inflating the hype meter.
I still just don't understand the motive. Without Zooce, no one would even notice. If anything, they should be trying to affect the hype meter with unique IPs and that hasn't changed at all. And like you said... it's just a bit sad.
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Or someone popular posted a link on their facebook page or something.
wow!! first they attacked the B2P model, then the CS, then the gameplay, direct x9, the dodge mechanic, NCsoft's fianancial situation, Nexon's supposed "hostile takeover", and an endless list of other minutiae... now they're going after "illegitimate hits" on forums? *sigh
While I like the game, you have to admit that the difference in the amount of hits between one day and the next is quite strange.
What are unique hits based upon? Different IP addresses? Would be incredibly easy to botch the numbers that way then.
I guess I'll be more direct and to the point. They are hits on an online forum, who the f*ck cares!!! I could care less if GW2 was the at the top or at the bottom. Debating whether or not they are legitimate hits is just beyond me, how about we talk about something that actually matters...
P.S. Nothing against you Kamikazego, just don't understand why it matters what position games are on in a completely subjective hype-meter on an online forum.
I think people just care about the principal of the matter. It's fine if the hits are real and that many people have an interest in the game, but it's really pathetic if people are inflating the numbers. Honestly I don't care much either way, but it's still sad if it's true.
I understand what you're saying, but its sad both ways:
Its sad if people are purposefully inflating the hype meter.
Its sad if people suspect others of purposefully inflating the hype meter.