Black Desert Online now has over 28K players on STEAM

strykr619

Why would any person buy an mmo thru steam? They must vote democrat. 

TheScavenger

Keep in mind, that is true for most (maybe all? dunno) steam MMOs. I left the Ryzom launcher running over night because forgot to close it and it still showed as online. And I think that was the same with RIFT, I left it running all day (the launcher) and forgot to close it lol.

Not saying it means that one should ignore that. That is true for any steam charts is anyone can leave it running, so that dilutes(?)/takes away the actual players playing the game since many steam players may leave their game or launcher running. That is true with Skyrim as well, you can leave the launcher running. So while skyrim in total has 30k "active" players, not everyone will be in the game and a portion of those will be in the launcher. Same with most other games.

Also have to take fact that every steam game, someone can be in the menu and not actually playing or in the game. But like I said, it isn't a scientific observation but what is reported by steam charts.

Which btw, I added RIFT to the comparison I made above with various MMOs. I forgot about that one.

Hunctucaveto

Came late to the party here, but a couple of thoughts,
1. Wow the fanboys are out in force here.
2. "Black Desert Online now has over 28K players on STEAM" and...we care why?

Renoaku

Oh no its like the stock market its crashing !

http://steamcharts.com/app/582660#All

All I see is a slow decline in the graph .

Meanwhile I had $3 in bitcoin from a few years ago it increased to $80 I cashed out before it started to decline man if only I had known it would have went up 5000%

TheScavenger

Hunctucaveto said:

Came late to the party here, but a couple of thoughts,
1. Wow the fanboys are out in force here.
2. "Black Desert Online now has over 28K players on STEAM" and...we care why?

Care enough to spend time posting.

TheScavenger

Renoaku said:

Oh no its like the stock market its crashing !

http://steamcharts.com/app/582660#All

All I see is a slow decline in the graph .

Meanwhile I had $3 in bitcoin from a few years ago it increased to $80 I cashed out before it started to decline man if only I had known it would have went up 5000%

yeah, looking at that gives a good view of the steam graph of people playing the game. It did go down quite a bit over time

If you look the past month

http://steamcharts.com/app/582660#1m

The results are pretty stable, always above 10k

If you do past 3 months

http://steamcharts.com/app/582660#3m

The population definitely went down, was going above 20k playing on steam or having launcher open or afk or whatever. Though maybe during that peak in mid/late June and July they released a new content patch or released something. Especially since most people just hop on when something new is added. Cause early June pop went down a bit, and was up in late May.

http://steamcharts.com/app/582660#6m

Though looking at that, population (on Steam) has dropped by about half going from May to now, content patch or not. Seems to be stable at 10k for now, and it'll probably peak up again when they release a new class. Other than that, has lost (steam) players over the past months 

MadFrenchie

That gun control bit always confuses me when people use it- are you asserting that the criminals manufacture their own guns?  Because if not, then gun control laws will decrease the number of guns that reach the general public, thereby reducing the number of those that fall into the hands of criminals.  /offtopic

Azaron_Nightblade

It'll spike again when Kama drops. Provided it ever does of course.

TheScavenger

Azaron_Nightblade said:

It'll spike again when Kama drops. Provided it ever does of course.

well the next class is the Mystic I think or something. There might be a spike when that drops, though I know more people are waiting for Kama than Mystic.

Azaron_Nightblade

TheScavenger said:

Azaron_Nightblade said:

It'll spike again when Kama drops. Provided it ever does of course.

well the next class is the Mystic I think or something. There might be a spike when that drops, though I know more people are waiting for Kama than Mystic.

Yeah. They said NA/EU will get Kama before we get Mystic though... so now it's a matter of waiting to see whether we actually do :P

time007

i think this calls for a yippee doo

TheScavenger

As a heads up to active player numbers. 

There is an event to get Lauren Family Coins and every hour logged in the game (pretty sure that is what I read) gets you 10 coins. 30 coins lets you get a gift box with a bunch of items in it.

So I bet a lot of people are just AFKing (like I am) to get the coins.

Is that a bad thing though? I dunno, it at least makes the world feel more lively and less empty. I did notice a lot of mechanics get people's characters in the world to do afk stuff in (like fishing). And it gets people in the game even if they might not be in the game and doing other stuff (like for the Lauren event). 

But it does inflate player numbers that might not actually be active and doing stuff. 

TheScavenger

To clarify. You DO get coins for a special chest every hour. But you are limited to 50 coins, which means 5 hours a day. That still means a lot of people get on to AFK collect coins. Which a lot of people DO afk in this game with various activities.