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Quote from: TheMadCharles on July 18, 2021, 04:30 AMQuote from: Kradie on July 18, 2021, 01:17 AM
I think these numbers speak for themselves in regards to WA online player activity.
https://steamcharts.com/app/217200#7d
keep in mind that these numbers are only for steam users, and it doesn't matter if they are connected to wormnet or not, they may as well be idle in the main menu. you also need to add up data from before August 2012, as well as CD and GOG releases, and any potential pirates
Even if you grant they are steam users, that doesn't cut against Kradie's objection to Skunk.
Skunk said the game is slowing to a trickle compared to what it once was. Kradie's graph showed upward trending activity over time, although it looks like it's going through a slight downswing right now.
Suggesting users could be idle in menus and that affecting the data doesn't go through as an objection, either. You'd have to consistently levy that factor across the data and explain why people are hardly ever idle in menus (when the graph shows low activity) and why people are routinely idle in menus (when the graph shows high activity). Good luck showing an argument for that intuition lol. If idle menu time was controlled for I see no reason why we wouldn't suspect the activity data on the graph to still trend upward.
Unless there's better data out there, seems like Skunk's claim is obviously false, unless your notion of "slowing to a trickle" is actually "trending upward".
And by the way, that's ^ compatible with the claim that activity overall is lower than what it was pre-steam prime era. But Skunk specifically made a claim about the direction activity is trending.
