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Skyim breaking Steam record -- a singleplayer game has 240,000 users online

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Re: Skyim breaking Steam record -- a singleplayer game has 240,000 users online

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post #14

What does "online" mean when talking about a single player game? I am thinking about playing oblivion on xbox360 and I can not understand what being "online" would mean.

I believe that it's only considered "online" because you have to be connected up to Steam in order for it to play. I don't think you really get anything out of it from being online.

Not true. You only have to connect to steam once for activation and to patch. Otherwise you can chill in offline mode all you want.

Re: Skyim breaking Steam record -- a singleplayer game has 240,000 users online

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post #14

What does "online" mean when talking about a single player game? I am thinking about playing oblivion on xbox360 and I can not understand what being "online" would mean.

It just means that they are playing it right now. Since most people stay logged in while playing SP Steam games, they can tell how many people are playing any given game at any given time. In other news, I'm proud to be one of the 240k. :)

For Xbox players this would be akin to being logged into a live-account whilst playing a single player game. I regularly see what my friends are playing when I check who's online.

Re: Skyim breaking Steam record -- a singleplayer game has 240,000 users online

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I didn't know what skyrim was, beyond a vague awareness that it was a game, so I went to elderscrolls.com, only to encounter a flash-wrapped video with no volume control.

I see this particular usability faux pas way too often. If you roll your own flash video player rather than host videos elsewhere or use one of the mainstream well-designed open/commercial flash video player apps, let viewers control the volume.

Binary On/Off sound toggles on flash apps are ridiculous. Furthermore, a custom flash video player app should remember the volume setting (per-domain) so viewers don't have to monkey with the volume every time that flash app appears.

Re: Skyim breaking Steam record -- a singleplayer game has 240,000 users online

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Wow, Counter-Strike is still number three, over ELEVEN years after release?!

It has been developed and revamped over time. Counter-Strike today has not much to do with the original HL mod.

The original Counter-Strike is no longer actively developed is it? Yet, surprisingly, it seems to be ahead of Counter-Strike Source, the newest addition.

Re: Skyim breaking Steam record -- a singleplayer game has 240,000 users online

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Is MW3 Steam-only? If so, it would be a lot more impressive.

Both Skyrim and MW3 can be bought as retail PC DVD versions but they both use Steamworks, so every legit retail or download PC version played will show up in the Steam statistics.

Re: Skyim breaking Steam record -- a singleplayer game has 240,000 users online

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Is that really a Steam record? The table shows the number of people who are playing NOW and the peak in the last 24 hours.

It seems so at least according to http://steamgraph.burstpixel.net/index.php

For a chart with these numbers have a look at http://steamgraph.burstpixel.net/index.php?action=graph&...

Re: Skyim breaking Steam record -- a singleplayer game has 240,000 users online

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post #9

what's trippy to me is how smooth and recognizable that cosine wave is

I'd like to see a longer data set. Judging from the small segment we see, it appears the peaks (U.S. evening and night) hours are sharper than the troughs (U.S. working hours). I expect the peaks on weekends are higher and broader. Fun. :-)

Try http://steamgraph.burstpixel.net/ e.g. http://steamgraph.burstpixel.net/index.php?action=graph&...

Re: Skyim breaking Steam record -- a singleplayer game has 240,000 users online

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post #28

Is that really a Steam record? The table shows the number of people who are playing NOW and the peak in the last 24 hours.

It seems so at least according to http://steamgraph.burstpixel.net/index.php For a chart with these numbers have a look at http://steamgraph.burstpixel.net/index.php?action=graph&...

I don't think those are quite correct...for instance, today's peak counter strike player count is only 6000 fewer players than the "all time" peak count on that site. Counter strike players are stubborn, but not that stubborn.

If you go to the graph screen, the graph only goes back to mid march 2011 and won't go back any farther, no matter how far back you request. It probably began gathering stats then.

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