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Defiance: July Play Rises +105%
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
According to the latest Raptr "Most Played Games" list for July 2013, Defiance saw one of the most precipitous gains in play time for the month. A great Steam Summer Sale and a price drop for Defiance seem to have led to a huge player increase in July.
Other contenders in the Top 10 include:
Borderlands 2 – playtime is up 66%
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – playtime rose 40% over June; 99% compared to May
Terraria – playtime rose 63%
Killing Floor – playtime increased 347%
Garry’s Mod – playtime jumped 55%
Read more on the Raptr site.
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A sure sign that you are in an old, dying paradigm/mindset, is when you are scared of new ideas and new technology. Don't feel bad. The world is moving on without you, and you are welcome to yell "Get Off My Lawn!" all you want while it happens. You cannot, however, stop an idea whose time has come.
And I'm sure the Raptr rewards for it had absolutely nothing to do with it?
Riiiight....
Couple this news with them starting to film the second series of the TV show, the future looks real bright for Defiance.
/sarcasm
Trion certainly have a great PR team shame that doesn't translate to their lackluster MMO's.
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lol maybe because the game went on sale for 10 dollars? Keep in mind also, the less sales you have, the easier it is to increase your sales by 100%.
Oh last month we sold 2 copies? Well this month we sold FOUR!!!! 100% growth!
When did Raptr's ratings become useful or indicative of much of anything?
Beuler?
Beuler?
Beuler...?
Joined 2004 - I can't believe I've been a MMORPG.com member for 20 years! Get off my lawn!
Please explain? Raptr is used by a certain percentage of gamers that span all areas of interest. There is no real reason for a specific game or game type's players to congregate within Raptr's membership so it is reasonable to assume, regardless of your own opinion of Raptr, that it *IS* representative of the games played during July.
The only potential issue that might skew the figures is the rewards system that encourages one game over another. The top two games this month are unaffected by that as Raptr has never run rewards for them.
LoL is #1
LoL has never had a Raptr promotion.
I can't see the fascination with LoL myself but it's what all the kids are playing these days.
where is the article about how Rift's downward trend was so severe it single handedly caused Raptr to be down overall.
Down 1% with Rift, up 7% without it. Surely thats newsworthy too, right?
This is kind of what I was thinking. I've seen people get bans and warnings for posting XFire numbers on this site. There's even a sticky thread where any talk of Xfire numbers has to go. Double standards, maybe?
Is a man not entitled to the herp of his derp?
Remember, I live in a world where juggalos and yugioh players are real things.
Excellent point about the percentage, regardless of if we're talking playtime or sales numbers. Don't give us percentages, give us the actual numbers.
Its the 17th most played PC game, right in between MicroVolts and Maple Story
On Xfire its currently #337 overall.
This ^^.
Steam sale (duh).
/endthread
http://www.defiancedata.com/page.php?id=12
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lol.
Its not really too surprising. Defiance has been 'off the radar' now for quite a long time, so i doubt sales before the steam sale were all that significant, if any, so even selling a few thousand copies would be a huge increase by comparison, now, if we could get hold of the data of how many bought the game during the steam sale, then we'd probably get a fair idea of current player numbers, which im guessing, up to that point, had been pretty low.
^
Sadly this.
If Raptr made some promo in EQ1... then i bet EQ1 will be the next month "most played game"
Login in, in game.. and let it run in background.. does not mean ppl are playing it.
There isn't much point in putting more than 100-200 hours into this game.
That''s why BL2 experience is a lot better.
what the hell is Raptor or XFire anyway and for what purpose would I need that?
to make other people know what game I play? what for?
i one who invested many hours into this game thought it was a pretty good concept- the games story with nim was pretty cool....
hate to say it unfortunately all the shifts and back end mishaps with the company trion did carry over into the game and showed a reflection on the status of the game at the present time.
really liked the game - but their moment has passed.