I think maybe TA was complicated enough to start with though. Compare that to my SWTOR or GW2 guilds and most of my Steam friends list is made up of those.ДЄh, Total Annihilation! The Krogoth (with Targetting Facility!) Brilliant game.ДЄpparently a TA-in-space game is coming out, in which TA armies fight over spherical planets and build orbital stuff. How many of these players use Steam or even know what Steam is? Back when my kin was much larger I made a post on our forums mentioning that people could add me to there Steam friends list, only 2 people took me up on it, most of the rest claimed they didn't use it (perhaps they just didn't like me!). Even in my own kin when I tried to get a number of them to join me in SWTOR or GW2 I was told LotRO is the only game they play and only video game they have ever seriously played, they started playing simply because it was Middle Earth. I'm wondering this as well, there are a large number of people who I know in game who will say LotRO is the only game they play. Yeah, they are bad, but how many people will use things like steam, and will the usage rate be higher for the raiders group or for the casual group. That's also why I think those numbers don't say a lot. I don't know if it's financially bad for Turbine to be honest. For us, the more hard-core players, who are more online at forums that is bad. The game has become a casual game and somehow I think casual gamers are less vocal on forums, but they can be way more profitable: They don't need raids etc, they don't login so often, but they still pay. My little brother, who also has a life-time account, has been in the top-raiding guilds on Eldar just like me, beaten most raids (OD was the last cluster i finished, he till erebor) on challenge mode on-lvl has exactly the same. I'm currently lvl 91 and still login irregularly, but I recently started playing Total Annihilation again and I'm having way more fun then I had with lotro last years.ДЄnd total annihilation is a 17 year old game. What games would those be right now and what kind of numbers?Д¤1.8% are playing Dota2 (that is Valve's bread and butter)Д .9% are playing Counterstrike (another 0.8% are playing Counterstrike:Source as well)Д .5% are playing Terraria (seriously, a pixelated platformer?) So that means 99.94% of Steam players are NOT playing Lotro but some other game. How many of those are playing Lotro? 500. Potential meaning they have steam up and running and they have a net connection.Д«ut how many are actually playing some game on Steam? Right now just over 825,000. On a heavy weekend during sunday afternoon that can easily pass the 7 million mark. They may not be awake but they are connected.

Was it nosam who commented on them 'playing the churn' so to spak and favoring new player recruitment over retention? Lets put some numbers to that.ДЄt the moment I write this, there are over 4 million people logged into steam. Where they were recently struggling to see weekly highs above 2k, they haven't hit that target in 3 weeks. If they don't start release something, anything, of significance, the 2014 summer drop will be really low. This is a repeat of May-June 2013, but earlier in the year. While the average continues to decline, the weekly peaks are softening. January and the last 30 days went red, and at this point without a miracle we'll have 3 red entries come March 1.

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