Player Counts

[Tac Bravo]

Peak before the update was 33,525. That has since become range bound below 20,000 per day since Dec. 5th. Roughly a 40% drop.

[Insomniac Jack]

It's a single player game, why do you care how many concurrent people are playing?

[FauxFurry]

I don't even play this version anymore, I play the GOG version unless I want to adjust, create or test a minor mod.
Skyrim is still being played yet not on this platform. Of course, other more recent games which are multi-platform are outperforming it, anyway.
Cyberpunk 2077 has more players than Skyrim has on Steam yet it sold more on GOG (at least initially). Skyrim is getting up there in years so attrition is to be expected, update or no update.

[DestroyerJamie]

I really don't get this type of mentality that only seems to be applied to single player games.
Got this with Hogwarts Legacy, Cyberpunk, the new spiderman etc.
People play the game, either 100% after a good couple months or get bored and go onto the next.
Do people need to spend all their free time on literally the same game forever?

[Tac Bravo]

Escrito originalmente por Insomniac Jack:

It's a single player game, why do you care how many concurrent people are playing?

It's the inverse I expect to see after a marketing effort where substantial sums of cash were spent to drive the market demand up, not down. Worst performance in more than 2 years. https://steamdb.info/app/489830/charts/#3y.

[Bricky strong]

Maybe people don't know that you better not update when you have mods because your game may not start. My guess. That update caused trouble for many people it seems.
I'll update when I feel like checking that all my mods will be compatible with the update.
I have to first isolate every mod I suspect will be effected and then research them if they have an update and I'll get around to it.

[Zero McDol]

Escrito originalmente por Bricky strong:

Maybe people don't know that you better not update when you have mods because your game may not start. My guess. That update caused trouble for many people it seems.
I'll update when I feel like checking that all my mods will be compatible with the update.
I have to first isolate every mod I suspect will be effected and then research them if they have an update and I'll get around to it.

Yep, that's my guess as well.

I backed up my game, updated, then deleted the files and put the modded game back in the folder. Had to paste back in the previous exe via a thread that offered a fix though, because opening the manager forced some issues. Also had to track down the previous SKSE; a pain.

[Dracon]

Escrito originalmente por Insomniac Jack:

It's a single player game, why do you care how many concurrent people are playing?

This
People are so hung up on the dumbest things

[Insomniac Jack]

Escrito originalmente por Tac Bravo:

Escrito originalmente por Insomniac Jack:

It's a single player game, why do you care how many concurrent people are playing?

It's the inverse I expect to see after a marketing effort where substantial sums of cash were spent to drive the market demand up, not down. Worst performance in more than 2 years. https://steamdb.info/app/489830/charts/#3y.

There's nothing more depressing than an armchair accountant.

[Tac Bravo]

Escrito originalmente por Insomniac Jack:

There's nothing more depressing than an armchair accountant.

Even as an 'armchair accountant,' there's joy in deciphering Skyrim's numbers. It's a different kind of dragon to shout about.

[Insomniac Jack]

Escrito originalmente por Tac Bravo:

Escrito originalmente por Insomniac Jack:

There's nothing more depressing than an armchair accountant.

Even as an 'armchair accountant,' there's joy in deciphering Skyrim's numbers. It's a different kind of dragon to shout about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja06DJrFe5E

Lucky for you Pete Hines retired recently.

[Tac Bravo]

Escrito originalmente por Insomniac Jack:

Lucky for you Pete Hines retired recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UijhbHvxWrA

Good point. With him out of the way the unmovable multi billion dollar stomping gorilla is free to send new marketing communications to it's customers, modders and fans.

[Sairek Ceareste]

With some people making changes to their Skyrim where it won't track as a Steam game so it won't auto update, this only makes sense, because people who are playing Skyrim on Steam "aren't" anymore.

[Tac Bravo]

Escrito originalmente por Sairek Ceareste:

With some people making changes to their Skyrim where it won't track as a Steam game so it won't auto update, this only makes sense, because people who are playing Skyrim on Steam "aren't" anymore.

I'm playing it now but launched from SKSE in MO2 and it is showing in Steam that I am in-game, so bumping the player count. I have Skyrim SSE 1.6.640.0.8 / SKSE 64 2.2.3 rel 6) and Creation Kit SSE 64-bit [CK64 Fixes Rev. 52E0949: v.3.6] . I backed up the CC Kit binaries and the .ini, so I could probably play it for years and keep releasing mods, and ignore Microsoft from now on. I can continue downloading mods, and if they start failing, I can either patch them so they work, or try another mod. Seems like a good workaround, for now, haha.

[xybolt]

Escrito originalmente por Tac Bravo:

Peak before the update was 33,525. That has since become range bound below 20,000 per day since Dec. 5th. Roughly a 40% drop.

yeah, some people cannot launch their modded game because of the update.

But, you have to keep in mind that it's a very old game. That it is still being played by 20k+ individual gamers is still impressive. A few games can tell that.

[Fear2288]

The fact that a 12+ year old singleplayer game was still sporting over 30k players is an achievement in and of itself.

Regardless, of course the numbers are down after that update - people are waiting until their mods get updated so they can get back to playing.