Why do steam stats gives us a diffrent number of players.

[☠ ﯼτіӀӀεл]

steam stats gives us a clear number of players start up the game. when discussing this in a other thread, a moderator locked us out and said this


Pacifist Moderator
No. The game is not dead. 300k unique players log in and play each day.

You're numbers are not accurate. I think you made them up.



here is the steam stat of dayz, you can select the view last year players
http://steamcharts.com/app/221100#3m

i would like to know where u get ur numbers from?

[Hajami]

You read it wrong i believe^^
It means number of players online at that moment in your list.
That doesnt indicates how many diferent players logged in the game during the day.

Not sure if private hyve also counts, but public servers are conected to the central hyve, thatway they exactly know how many player were in the game at that day.

[☠ ﯼτіӀӀεл]

in what list? my friend list!?
im not sure what ur trying to say

it doesnt matter what hive ppl playing. steam stats give u a number on how many ppl start up the game from their steam account, so far its not possible to start dayz standalone out of steam.

hold your mouse over the store button in steam, in the pop-up menu select the stats button on the bottem, this gives u the stats window. now expand the list and scroll way down to see where dayz is today

[Pacifist]

1. Stats generated the morning of maintenance isn't exactly going to show regular usage.
2. Peak players is the highest amount of players on at once.
3. Steam stats does not cover UNIQUE players. Not everyone plays at the exact same time.

[☠ ﯼτіӀӀεл]

thats why i posted the steamchart link, select the last year. http://steamcharts.com/app/221100#3m

the in-steam stat windows only give us a today. wich i agree is not accurate

[Pacifist]

Originally posted by ☠ ﯼτіӀӀεл:

thats why i posted the steamchart link, select the last year. http://steamcharts.com/app/221100#3m

the in-steam stat windows only give us a today. wich i agree is not accurate

Yes, steamcharts that covers peak and average, not unique.

[Maca]

Originally posted by ☠ ﯼτіӀӀεл:

thats why i posted the steamchart link, select the last year. http://steamcharts.com/app/221100#3m

the in-steam stat windows only give us a today. wich i agree is not accurate

That is an average calculation of the last 30 Days (per-day ingame accounts at the same time, showing the lowest & highest peak)

5,995.9 -1,264.5 -17.42% 13,218.

This is an average of unique accounts per-day in the last 2 weeks showing an increase of 12,704 (7.4%) on average. (With 3,442,977 accounts, I'm sure more than between 5,000 and 13,000 accounts login).

254,752 ± 12,704 (7.4%)

[Nina]

Just to reiterate:

The sites that track Steam data are not official. They use the Steam API and crawl public player profiles to see if someone is playing a game, and keep a record of it. (Private profiles are not counted.)

SteamCharts only shows the total number of players in-game every Monday (not the rest of the week, like weekends) and does not count players who do not happen to be in-game at the exact moment they check the player's profile, and SteamCharts does not keep track of unique players.

SteamCharts' player counts are lower than Steam's. (over 2000 less current, 100 less peak)
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

SteamSpy shows 250'000 players in the past 2 weeks. Steam does not provide this stat.
Edit; The very beginning of this presentation talks about SteamSpy specificly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2gwWWZ1T9E

These sites are not meant for accurate statistics. They are estimates with an arbitrary margin of error.

[Powellinho.72]

i now know more about the steamcharts lol.

Thanks!

[Hajami]

Originally posted by Pacifist:

Originally posted by ☠ ﯼτіӀӀεл:

thats why i posted the steamchart link, select the last year. http://steamcharts.com/app/221100#3m

the in-steam stat windows only give us a today. wich i agree is not accurate

Yes, steamcharts that covers peak and average, not unique.

Yeah my english aint the best , i ment the same. And OP with List i ment the Numbers and Stuff in your Link.