sjskdjkfa Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 What do you suppose accounts for the shape of this graph look at the steam chart player count over the last six months, it's like a line for 3months and then it gets all squiggly -google something like "steam ark player count" and click the right link then above the chart click the 6m to zoom in on that largely downwards trend.. er nvm here is a link: https://steamcharts.com/app/346110#6m Perhaps it has something to do with the crippling network instability. Anyways earlier this year they scooped up a whole bunch of new players through the ea thing, and the genesis thing. And it seems like we are back to the baseline of ~50k hard core been here for 5 years players + comers and goers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer Moderator Joebl0w13 Posted September 11, 2020 Volunteer Moderator Share Posted September 11, 2020 That's accounted for by people playing during the waking hours of the day and not at night Columbo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer Moderator GP Posted September 11, 2020 Volunteer Moderator Share Posted September 11, 2020 The flat line means nothing, it is the same for ALL games. DOTA 2: https://steamcharts.com/app/570#6m A prime example ^. So absolutely nothing to do with ARK or network instability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrm Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 9 hours ago, sjskdjkfa said: What do you suppose accounts for the shape of this graph ... Perhaps it has something to do with the crippling network instability. Anyways earlier this year they scooped up a whole bunch of new players through the ea thing, and the genesis thing. And it seems like we are back to the baseline of ~50k hard core been here for 5 years players + comers and goers. Or perhaps it has something to do with what has been happening around the world during the past six months with lockdowns, etc. Lots of people were off work and school and so had more time to play games. Now that people are gradually returning to work and school, the numbers playing games (any games) are bound to fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer Moderator GP Posted September 11, 2020 Volunteer Moderator Share Posted September 11, 2020 Basically if you learn to read charts, when you look at these although it is covering 6 months you will notice (simply hover your mouse over them) that the earlier 3 months show you values on the 1st of the month only, hence the straight line to the next month, and the more recent 3 months shows you daily data, hence the more accurate fluctuations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjskdjkfa Posted September 11, 2020 Author Share Posted September 11, 2020 5 hours ago, GP said: Basically if you learn to read charts, when you look at these although it is covering 6 months you will notice (simply hover your mouse over them) that the earlier 3 months show you values on the 1st of the month only, hence the straight line to the next month, and the more recent 3 months shows you daily data, hence the more accurate fluctuations. Thanks that def explains it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizard03 Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 that's the point in time where PUBG implemented bots, and people started looking around for something else to play XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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