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I'd be more inclined to agree with you if you didn't end up doing EXACTLY what you nailed him for doing and also contradict yourself in the same post.
"0 evidence to show it, yet you act like it's accepted as fact"
Then you go on to say...
"No one playing Darkfall gives two squirts about MO."
"99% of people I play MMO's with have no clue this site exists"
"In fact, I think this is without a doubt faked" -> earlier -> "It's very possible someone in Aventurine is doing this"
Uhh...
He who keeps his cool best wins.
Indeed, it has happened to games like DAoC, EQ1, Entropia, Neocron, and Asheron's Call 2. The reason why none of these other games has over 2 million hits for the year, however, is that they were only the recipient of unexplained spamming once every month or two.
Darkfall, on the other hand, was the beneficiary of these types of wild hit count aberrations a couple times to several times each and every week. This has been happening for at least 7 or 8 months, impacting the counter so dramatically by inexplicable numbers, it has almost 2.9 million hits going back a year. I say inexplicable, because of the overall lack of news articles, lack of feature articles, lack of major occurences with the game, and lack of forum activity evidenced on the Darkfall portion of this website. A high hit count with such little activity is completely incongruent, as the Admin pointed out. Obviously, it was being manipulated.
Since the cheating was stopped, and now DF is only getting legitimate hits, the wild variations in hit count has stopped, and not surprisingly, the game hasn't come close to breaking into the Top 10 any day this past week. Shortly, it will go from number one for the week (based on the 55K false hits from last Saturday) to not even being in the top ten, because it is no longer benefiting from false hits.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
No this is correct. There is a ton of people looking at the game. Its one of the few unique ones out there.
The definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
Yeah, right, because more people are interested in Darkfall than in all the other online games in the world put together.
lol. My first thought exactly. Not that I'm not a fan of Darkfall. Game has a lot going for it. Population is just not one of them.
"Never met a pack of humans that were any different. Look at the idiots that get elected every couple of years. You really consider those guys more mature than us? The only difference between us and them is, when they gank some noobs and take their stuff, the noobs actually die." - Madimorga
Compared to actual player numbers you have to agree that it sounds somewhat fishy. Vanguard is another of the unique ones with about the same numbers of players and Eve is a lot larger...
Now this is an Epic Fail......
Agreed, these things happens with many games,
I don't think anyone believe that there is an actual conspiracy working here or anything but acting like this hurts more than it helps.
It tells us that MMORPG.com should look over how these things should work, nothing more.
It doesnt hurt more. Since for ever, the 1st game most ppl saw once they got on mmorpg.com was DF. Thats how we kept having many new trials and new players buying the game at the end. It will helps DF more then you think.
Of course, for the other games, we now know that we cant take the rating seriously when rift, kotor, wow and some other AAA get burned by a game that do 0% advertisment
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By the way, after 3 weeks, the spamming is happening again. DF had 30,000 hits yesterday, and has over 24,000 hits so far today (so it's on pace for ~50,000 today).
As I said, it happens to other games as well, but with Darkfall, it happens frequently.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
Really makes you wonder if it's Aventurine botting those hits or a 3rd party.
Only the admins here would be able to tell, but it's clearly a false number. Over 25,000 hits for a game with such little activity is obviously manufactured.
By comparison, SWTOR is the next highest at 5,000. SWTOR is one of the most hyped game currently in the world. Its release date was announced yesterday, it's had a number of feature and news articles about it on this site recently, and its forums activity has active threads going to the second page. Yet, Darkfall supposedly has 5 times the number of unique hits?
Granted, it seems a pretty silly thing to do, but there plenty of people that exaggerate the importance of forum ratings, numbers, and stats. This seems to be a pretty clear-cut case - someone is manipulating the number.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
This is not the first time this has happened on this site, it's happened a few times way before the Asian interest was announced.
To begin with, I don't think Asia would use MMORPG.com as reference, not because MMORPG.com is bad, but because MMORPG.com doesn't cover MMOs in Asia (only when they hit the north american/european market).
I'm amazed that people can think that these could be legit numbers
Covert viral marketing is a terrible thing isn't it.
StarVault and Mortal Online are a prime example of this too. A terrible game kept barely alive by a covert viral marketing scheme, as plainly admitted by the CEO in his financial reports. It too gets high hit rates on this site, yet has barely a couple of hundred people playing. You have to wonder why.
Perhaps the OP should investigate this too?
How does a hit get counted ?
I would say maybe it's the recent success of Skyrim. I know watching some Skyrim gameplay I had to check Darkfall out again.. only to be sadly disappointed of course.
I bet its Asian IP's. Specifically China. I know the Chineese loved Shadowbane and games like it (super hardcore open world open loot). Knowing the developers have been in talks with Asian developers the past few months that would spike the intrest in the game WAY up. Over there 50k players is a drop in the bucket. Also 1000 CN players vs 30 NA players is not fun...
The definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
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