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DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.06.01 00:16:00 -
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OP may have made a mistake in viewing that graph but his statement about less players being active in-game is still correct.
Too many times I've seen players post saying 'Eve is growing - rise in subscriptions since day 1'.
That statement may be true and correct from the start of 2006 all the way up to the middle of 2009. The best steady growth period was for 1 year straight, middle of 2008 to middle of 2009. The longest steady no-growth period was for 6 months, middle of 2009 to the start of 2010.
After that I highly doubt there's been a large steady influx of new players. Sure there's been some new players subbing but the majority of the 'rise in subscriptions' is better attributed to older players getting alt accounts which rarely ever log into the game.
From 2010 to now there's been short term time periods with large amounts of players active followed with a large drop and long term steady decline of numbers.
Currently there's less players active in game than there was in the middle of 2009. Yeah maybe the war on bots had something to do with it but there's also been a very large increase of suicide ganking within the past couple of years which is definitely contributing to less players active.
Of course some players will say that's due to Incarna in 2011. I say it's due to CCP not fulfilling the promise of WiS. According to the graph, there was a large increase of players active at the start of 2011 due to the promise of WiS. Unfortunately CCP didn't make good on that which resulted in a steady decline of active numbers. The events of the summer also contributed to the decline which makes 2011 a full year of declining numbers.
Bottom line, stating there's been a constant rise in subscription numbers since day 1 doesn't matter when the amount of active players has steadily decreased and is now lower than it was 3 years ago.
DMC
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School is still in session in 'the western worlds' right now, summer doesn't start til middle of June and ends in Sept. |
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
2296
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Posted - 2012.06.01 02:42:00 -
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Thanks for posting that info, always nice to see confirmation. |
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
2296
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Posted - 2012.06.01 03:55:00 -
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Alia Gon'die wrote:DeMichael Crimson wrote:Thanks for posting that info, always nice to see confirmation. I like it when people basically selectively quote blog posts without even quoting anything.
Don't have to quote anything since the info is available just by clicking the links and reading, please try it sometime. |
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
2296
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Posted - 2012.06.01 08:53:00 -
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Ranger 1 wrote:Actually, age is fairly irrelevant. Adults working full time typically use summer months for vacation time and traveling.
Daily activity charts don't really tell us much, what tells the tale is the number of subscriptions.
Those are the numbers I would like to see.
Current amount of subscriptions means nothing compared to the active numbers, especially when players are just waiting for the subscription time to run out on the accounts.
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