What's your outfit's retention rate?

Figment · 2013-03-12, 11:29 AM

How many players signed up?
How many players do you typically recruit per month?
How many are still playing on an average day (number of squads)?
How did that change over the past four months?
What's the mix between old (PS1) and completely new players?

Just curious, because I'm hearing all kinds of bad news and want to know just how grave the situation is.

maradine · 2013-03-12, 11:36 AM

30.
0.
2 squads on Op day.
Slight increase.
3 PS1 vets, all retained.

Baneblade · 2013-03-12, 12:10 PM

Our numbers are solid, it is a chore to get our PS2 participation rate up though.

Assist · 2013-03-12, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by Figment

How many players signed up?
How many players do you typically recruit per month?
How many are still playing on an average day (number of squads)?
How did that change over the past four months?
What's the mix between old (PS1) and completely new players?

Just curious, because I'm hearing all kinds of bad news and want to know just how grave the situation is.

2
0
2 (1)
No Change
We're old

100% retention! All's good.

ringring · 2013-03-12, 01:10 PM

Total current nos 281 (that's after some cleansing, I'm unsure how many have been removed, around 30 I'd guess).

Total active last 30 days 165
Total active last 7 days 98

On a normal evening we have 2 'light' squads - ie 15-20 people. Occasionally we go to 3.

Comparable to PS1 this is below what we were after 3 years. Full 30 man platoons were common, even up to 2007.

However, it's wouldn't be valid to compare ps1 against ps2 because we've changed our method of recruitment. In ps1 we spammed outfit invites to anyone without an outfit whereas in ps2 we rely on people applying after having seen an advert on the forums or after having played in an open squad.

I'd say 66 were in OC previously.

Current rate of recruitment has slowed a lot since Xmas.

EVILPIG · 2013-03-12, 01:32 PM

Don't the outfit links best answer most of this?

http://www.planetside-universe.com/o...8620604330.php

PurpleOtter · 2013-03-12, 01:52 PM

The biggest drop was right after the holidays when a significant percentage of the player base did not return to the game. It was the end of the "honeymoon" post launch. Since then our roster has been pretty stable. I don't have any solid data on the percentage of our outfit that are PS1 vets.

EVILPIG · 2013-03-12, 01:55 PM

Originally Posted by PurpleOtter

The biggest drop was right after the holidays when a significant percentage of the player base did not return to the game. It was the end of the "honeymoon" post launch. Since then our roster has been pretty stable. I don't have any solid data on the percentage of our outfit that are PS1 vets.

That was due to 16 days of Double XP. That was their biggest mistake. I appreciate a weekend, but that was too much.

LoliLoveFart · 2013-03-12, 02:16 PM

80 members. 1 squad during casual play 2 squads during ops. People join and then never play in outfit squads or join up and never play again.

DeltaGun · 2013-03-12, 04:46 PM

http://www.planetside-universe.com/o...8620602314.php

88% members active last 30 days, 69% active last 7 days.

149 members.

/flex

Pella · 2013-03-12, 06:03 PM

How many players signed up?
100s to many to count. Not all Recruits make the cut so are removed. That was during Beta.

Now we recruit 1/5 People a week as initiates to the outfits. About 50% Make it to full members.

Number of Members: 45
Active Members (last 7 Days): 39 (87%)
Active Members (last 30 Days): 44 (98%)

We are about 40% PS1 Vets

Sardus · 2013-03-12, 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by Figment

How many players signed up?
How many players do you typically recruit per month?
How many are still playing on an average day (number of squads)?
How did that change over the past four months?
What's the mix between old (PS1) and completely new players?

Just curious, because I'm hearing all kinds of bad news and want to know just how grave the situation is.

1) around 10-50 depending on game releases. Very few planetside 2 ones right now. We are a gaming community, our forums show 600 active members but we were around 900 around release of planetside 2.
2) We get anywhere between half to a full platoon at prime time. In the last 30 days we've had 425 online (56.07%)
3) We started with 1.5 to 2 full platoons on release.
4) We started as a PS1 outfit.

As a community we have a very high retention rate. Players move together from game to game.

There has been a sharp drop in interest in planetside 2 but a lot of people still play.

This same behavior was seen in planetside 1. Interest in the game rises and falls over time depending on new patches and other new game releases, but we always remained active in planetside in some sort of capacity.

There have been a lot of new games lately, including deadspace, starcraft, and simcity, to name just a few.

ringring · 2013-03-12, 07:29 PM

Something I've noticed, which may be relevant or not, is that we're pretty much dead from 11pm UK time onwards.

In PS1 I recall at least a few playing past midnight and well beyond. Werner used to be a 24 hour server.

Whiteagle · 2013-03-12, 08:13 PM

Angry Army:
64 out of 310 (20.65%) have logged in over the past week, including myself last Friday...
125 (40.32%)
over the last month...
8 recruits over the past week...

Much better then my old shitty outfit, who've only recuited ONE guy in the last week, and have had 8 out of their 48 (16.67%) members on in the last week and 19 (39.58%) in the last month...

DirtyBird · 2013-03-12, 08:48 PM

Our retention rate is great.
Our activity rate is shithouse.
Gave up on recruiting, would rather play the game.
The trend these days seems to be play a game for a month, anywhere from 10hrs to 50hrs total, then move on.
There are so many gaming options available these days.