Game population

[Sircapalot]

Hi, I'm pretty new to this game. According to steam charts there are only a few hundred people playing. Is the game "dead" ?

[✪ Hugo]

Considering that the number of player has increased by +33.70% the last 30 days, no it's not dead.

[76561198339812935]

Originally posted by ✪ hugo988:

Considering that the number of player has increased by +33.70% the last 30 days, no it's not dead.

Consider that this game only gets around 1400 people during peak time, yes it's dead.

[Hayden]

I wouldn't say it's dead, it's just not very popular. There are still about 30K players each week.

[76561198339812935]

Originally posted by Husk:

I wouldn't say it's dead, it's just not very popular. There are still about 30K players each week.

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[Poerkie (Killer Kitten)]

1.4 k players allows me to consider it's alive. If you're expecting 30k there aren't much games left considered alive...

[adil]

There has been a recent spike in players but does anyone know why ? Last time it spiked was due to h2delirious YouTube video

[gronk]

Originally posted by adil:

There has been a recent spike in players but does anyone know why ? Last time it spiked was due to h2delirious YouTube video

I think there was a Christmas sale for something? That would be my guess

[Dodo Sandvich]

Originally posted by God King Donald J. Trump:

Originally posted by Husk:

I wouldn't say it's dead, it's just not very popular. There are still about 30K players each week.

http://steamcharts.com/app/299360

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It is not like there are 600 players who play the game 24/7 and that during the peaks players play all the way through the peak. Steamcharts show how many are active at one point. Who is active changes greatly.

Say, you have a game where Steamcharts 1 active player throughout the week. But if it is that every hour that player stops and then just one new player plays, and nobody plays the game for more than once during the week, then there would be 24x7= 168 different players who played despite Steamcharts only showing 1 player at a time.
Not sure how Husk got it to 30K though.

[Hayden]

There's direct data here: https://steamspy.com/app/299360

However you can make a very rough estimate from the steamchart graph too, if you have an average playtime to use.

700 average players per day.
Each player plays for an average of 3 hours.
24 / 3 = 8 cycles of unique players.
700 * 8 = 5600 unique players per day.
5600 * 7 days = 39200 players per week.

Obviously various factors can influence that result greatly. Not all players will play a match and some players will play for many days.

Even with the direct data, I can't say exactly how many unique players there are per week, 30K was perhaps an underestimation, but you can see how many there are every 2 weeks.

[✪ Hugo]

Originally posted by adil:

There has been a recent spike in players but does anyone know why ? Last time it spiked was due to h2delirious YouTube video

Christmas sale / Yeti skin

[The Spanish Inquisition]

The game isn't dead. Except for that one huge boost the game has had a consistent number of players. The Playerbase is large enough for us all to enjoy and get a game fairly quickly.

If you get the attention of big streamers or youtubers, you could easily get the playerbase up.

[Alex]

lots of little kids got computers for christmas and downloaded bnl prob

[adil]

Originally posted by potato:

lots of little kids got computers for christmas and downloaded bnl prob

that's sad

[TripMcG]

Originally posted by potato:

lots of little kids got computers for christmas and downloaded bnl prob

*Laptops* not compooters

Originally posted by ryangc02:

The game isn't dead. Except for that one huge boost the game has had a consistent number of players. The Playerbase is large enough for us all to enjoy and get a game fairly quickly.

If you get the attention of big streamers or youtubers, you could easily get the playerbase up.

Fine I ll make a BNL vid to get y'all some players

@op

Block N Load doesn't need more players, more players neeed Block N Load

[K]

Originally posted by Husk:

There's direct data here: https://steamspy.com/app/299360

However you can make a very rough estimate from the steamchart graph too, if you have an average playtime to use.

700 average players per day.
Each player plays for an average of 3 hours.
24 / 3 = 8 cycles of unique players.
700 * 8 = 5600 unique players per day.
5600 * 7 days = 39200 players per week.

Obviously various factors can influence that result greatly. Not all players will play a match and some players will play for many days.

Even with the direct data, I can't say exactly how many unique players there are per week, 30K was perhaps an underestimation, but you can see how many there are every 2 weeks.

If it's just checking out the game, I agree, there are around 30k new players checking out the game.

However, you did not consider the return rate of those 30k. Out of those 30k, how many players are willing to stay/return?

I am not entirely sure on EU, but on NA, barely any of those "unique" players return and play the game.

Also,

1400-1800 players in a 5v5 online game is considered extremely low player base. Supposed everyone is in casual mode, then that translates to around 140-180 active matches. It seems a lot. However, I do not believe that is the case as there are customs, afk, time assault, and map editor people, and queue. You factor those in, it will no longer be 140-180 matches (With more than 70% of those 140-180 games occuring in EU). It will be 14-18 active matches with ~50 people waiting in queue. Personally, for an online game to be "alive", I should be getting match ups with different players, not with the same players. Again, this is on NA. Not sure on the EU side.

This is just my estimation. I might be extremely wrong on this one. However, for me, 10 minute queue time and playing against the same players everytime is a pretty dead game for me. That being said, I still enjoy this game a lot.