Have players started quiting?

**BlueTemplar** · 09-07-2012, 16:02

Still, it's the best we have until Blizzard starts releasing statistics... It's certainly much better than a subjective guesstimate based on how many of your friends are still playing it.
I'd like to compare this peak-and-decline to other AAA titles... is there any way to look at the Xfire numbers older than a month?

**Risingred** · 09-07-2012, 16:10

Originally Posted by SnickerSnack

Yeah, that's what I meant. The people who use xfire are a specific and self selected group, therefore not representative.

I don't see what basis you have for that. It's like saying X-Box Live is a specific and self-selected group. Well, that's mostly any group outside of racial/ethnic lines. xfire is basically an advanced xbox live. These are typical pc gamers, who aren't casual players.

**jamesL** · 09-07-2012, 16:40

Originally Posted by Dreamcrusha

i just bought this game and i keep on reading forums that people are starting to quit because of how boring and frustrating it is. Is the population actually decreasing?

of course people are quitting
when you posted the game was already out for 6 weeks
not many people are going to play a game longer than that
I doubt if many of the people who bought the game played it past nightmare

**acken** · 09-07-2012, 17:46

Originally Posted by Risingred

I don't see what basis you have for that. It's like saying X-Box Live is a specific and self-selected group. Well, that's mostly any group outside of racial/ethnic lines. xfire is basically an advanced xbox live. These are typical pc gamers, who aren't casual players.

Thats what he means, its a specific group which not representative of everyone that play D3 (which are casuals AND gamers).

On the other hand... casual players never stick to a game for a long time so having data concerning more hardcore gamers only is imo more useful as I feel its a better indicator of the health of a game like D3 for long term. And... it doesn't look good.

**Risingred** · 09-07-2012, 17:59

Originally Posted by acken

Thats what he means, its a specific group which not representative of everyone that play D3 (which are casuals AND gamers).

On the other hand... casual players never stick to a game for a long time so having data concerning more hardcore gamers only is imo more useful as I feel its a better indicator of the health of a game like D3 for long term. And... it doesn't look good.

Precisely. If we're talking the overall general audience for the game, like james said you'd have to expect a sharp dropoff because many gamers tend to beat a game and move onto something else. But for us it's different.
If a barometer were needed for the overall audience, the percentage of achievements earned would be just fine for that, but Blizzard doesn't release that information like Steam does.

**AnimeCraze** · 09-07-2012, 18:36

Originally Posted by acken

On the other hand... casual players never stick to a game for a long time so having data concerning more hardcore gamers only is imo more useful as I feel its a better indicator of the health of a game like D3 for long term. And... it doesn't look good.

Except it isn't so simple. Video game players aren't divided into these 2 camps, and even if they are, players can be casual for certain genres while being hardcore in some others.

**acken** · 09-07-2012, 18:59

Originally Posted by AnimeCraze

Except it isn't so simple. Video game players aren't divided into these 2 camps, and even if they are, players can be casual for certain genres while being hardcore in some others.

Said it was more useful not perfect.

**a black kid** · 09-07-2012, 19:06

a little more than half of my real life friends that bought the game when it was released are no longer playing.

**SnickerSnack** · 10-07-2012, 05:19

My brother hasn't played for 10 days 4 hours, and when I asked him why, he didn't answer....he was engrossed in minecraft (technic pack).

**mesafalcon** · 30-07-2012, 01:28

Originally Posted by Smips

The game has been out for over a month now, so I'm sure a lot of people who have been pumping tons of time into it are getting a bit burned out. I know I haven't been very active playing it for the past week. Not because I think it's a bad game or that I'm bored, I just want to switch things up and do something else for a couple weeks. D3 is just like everything else, it's going to boom for a while and then go into a lull until the next big patch after a few weeks.

I think this makes the most sense.

Probably many people are waiting for the next big patch and the population will go in waves. Having said that, there is an obvious decline in players, the reason isn't that relevant to me, thats whats happening.