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How many of us MMO gamers use game tracking software like Raptr, Xfire, Comrade etc..?
Calerxes
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I thought a poll to see what percentage of us MMO gamers actually use these types of software would be interesting as they are commonly used to bolster arguments involving whether a game is doing well or not population wise. This is mainly because modern MMO developers like to keep their sub numbers close to their chest, especially if their game is not doing very well, so we, the ones who find the subject of sub numbers interesting (yes its mad I know 
) are left to try and surmise what the numbers actually are by using the data from these tools, but that does lead to rather circular arguments. I don't know if we will get a high enough sample to guess the percentage of strictly MMO users but hey its worth a go. I suppose we could state which ones we use as well.
I use Raptr and Xfire as I like to track how many hours I've played a game and they are useful to keep in touch with people you've met in an MMO that you don't play anymore.
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Steam, but mostly because Im forced into having it. I dont really care about my stats.,..
Steam, I like it.
Chins
Steam.
I troll the mmopg.com group chat alone.
Luckilly no one else is there to see me talk to myself!
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Wow I didn't expect it to hit 20% actually using it. Was thinking like 5-10.
the results are clearly skewed. You will only respond if you can name the service you are using, and if you are on this site you are more than likely to be. We are all anomolies.
Chins
Steam is the only one i use and it's only for buying games in sales, not for stats, chat or anything else. I used to use Xfire ages ago but found it pointless so stopped.
to op the only comrade site i could find is this:
http://mycomrade.com/
probably wrong site!can you link proper site!
The only time I use one is when I 'have' to.
i.e. Steam
So, I answered "No", just because I don't use one by choice.
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Its IGN's tool
http://comrade.gamespy.com/
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According to xfire.com they have 30k users playing WoW per day. Of course, you can't actually assume anything based on such a small sampling which is why we often come up with lousy estimates for elections and such, but it's still fun to run some numbers based on the statistics that are available. So even though 30k players per day do not represent all of the players on xfire who play WoW, I'm still going to use the 30k as if it were and say that of the 11.4 mil players in WoW, .26% of them are on xfire.
Assuming that .26% of people who play all games are on xfire (again not a safe assumption but it's all we have) we can make some rough estimates of game populations. Slightly off topic but it's in the same ballpark!
Top mmorpg's:
LoL: 12.3 million players
Minecraft: 1,045,000 players
APB Reloaded: 749,000 players (but declining rapidly)
Rift: 736,000 players
World of Tanks: 716,000 players
EVE: 715,000 players (I believe EVE's numbers are documented and are much lower? not sure...)
Aion: 621,000 players
LotRO: 569,000 players
Other games people like to talk about -
Age of Conan: 307,000 players
Runes of Magic: 263,000 players
Atlantica Online: 135,000 players
Allods: 113,000 players
DDO: 90,000 players
Warhammer: 43,000 players
CoX: 40,000 players
/end.off.topic
ps: I'm guessing that more people here at mmorpg utilize tracking than the average casual gamer. I also am not sure that steam should be included in the poll since it is required software for so many games now that people have it on their system unwillingly. I, on the other hand, tend to avoid steam games altogether because I don't want tracking software on my system.
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I was pleasantly surprised when I went from Apprentice to full 5 star Elite in under 2 months. I was pleasantly surprised again when I went from Elite to just barely Hardcore in 2 weeks. Apprentice, here I come!
one thing we have to remember asia doesnt know all the tool we use and yet they are 400 million online just in china alone, so i bet they arent just
playing checker online.
I dont use tools like this. The reason is simple. I vew them all as spyware. Who in their right mind wants spyware on their computers. These programs get into your system, xfire gets deep into your registry.
I installed xfire once becasue I was in a guild who demanded it. I would be off playing something else and the guild leader would be all up my rear. Why are you playing that, you do know we have a raid going on. I had sinded up for that raid, and was told to sit, so I decided to go do something else.
So the main reason why I don't use it is spyware, the other reason is I don't need somebody to track me down when I am off having fun.
Steam's the only tool like this I would use, the rest are intrusive and unnecessary for what I do.
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Well, you have a point there.
I was pleasantly surprised when I went from Apprentice to full 5 star Elite in under 2 months. I was pleasantly surprised again when I went from Elite to just barely Hardcore in 2 weeks. Apprentice, here I come!
Yeh, I use steam but not for the pupose of tracking but to manage all my games as steam auto-updates and have a nice interface and great sales.
Chins
Used to use xFire to communicate with clans and groups in its hayday (especially for FPS's like UT2004), and its easy screenshot/video features. Got rid of it about a year ago, because nobody uses it.
I've had Steam for ages, but only been actually using it daily for about 2 years. All my r/l friends use it, and practically everyone from an old MMO guild do too. Not to mention its a game store, and an easy way to screenshot/video.
Steam is great IMO.
I'd actually be pretty lost without it. I like to keep gaming buddies in one place, and the rest in MSN / Facebook, where they cannot get to me when I'm in-game :P.
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Seems not many are interested and two thirds of those interested don't use any of these tools so it might be said that they really are irrelevant, maybe in time this will change though.
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I use xfire
30k is a small sample? What do you consider a large sample? Also, what is your background in statistics?
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I never use them. What I play is my binness.
I used Xfire for a fairly long time until they were bought out and the updates stopped coming, at that point I went to Raptr since it allowed for me to not need to log into YIM, Xifre, and whatever other chat program I needed because there was no standard.
It doesn't have the screenshot/video functionality of Xfire, but I don't mind to much, and if it's a Steam based game, then I can just take screenshots and videos with Steam anyhow.
just 1 all the time
xfire, also because i can configure it to also have my msn and gtalk list in there, so i can chat with gaming friends and real life friends on 1 chat client, as for game tracking meh fun to see how much time of my life im wasting.
steam i only use it when i have to (play steam games) other than that steam is off.