News: Planetside 2 has 1.6 million players

Vanir · 2012-12-12, 01:49 PM

1.6 million and growing!
http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/12/so...ess-interview/

ChipMHazard · 2012-12-12, 01:51 PM

I guess that's impressive for a PC only title

Dragonskin · 2012-12-12, 01:56 PM

Wait, what? We have another thread the game is dying in.... You can't be growing and dying can you? Is that possible?

Impressive numbers for sure. I wonder how many people will be playing in 6 months. That is usually the cutting off point for a lot of players that start with a game at launch.

Crator · 2012-12-12, 01:58 PM

"Online frag game"? I'm insulted.

Beerbeer · 2012-12-12, 02:33 PM

Where are they all? The two servers I play on are fairly empty now, unfortunately.

Lot of new players that stopped playing it seems like.

Quovatis · 2012-12-12, 03:01 PM

I have to disagree with Smed that SOE is taking the Blizzard approach. PS2 is nowhere near as polished as SC2 was. There are still a ton of issues and bugs, yet they still released PS2, whereas SC2 was in beta for a long time to get the balance just right as well as squash all the bugs.

Miffy · 2012-12-12, 03:16 PM

Has had*

I bet 3/4 of those people don't play anymore.

Bags · 2012-12-12, 03:17 PM

Well he did say the average is 60 minutes a session.

Which means for every hardcore player plugging 4 hours, someone is playing 5 minutes.

Electrofreak · 2012-12-12, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by Vanir

1.6 million and growing!
http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/12/so...ess-interview/

Everay?

AThreatToYou · 2012-12-12, 03:36 PM

I expect the real number of concurrent players to settle between 650,000 and 1 million.

JawsOfLife · 2012-12-12, 03:41 PM

The average concurrent players on Planetside 2 on steam is usually 22,000...That seems pretty low given the claims of 1.6 million players total.

AThreatToYou · 2012-12-12, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by JawsOfLife

The average concurrent players on Planetside 2 on steam is usually 22,000...That seems pretty low given the claims of 1.6 million players total.

I don't use Steam.

Phantomdestiny · 2012-12-12, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by JawsOfLife

The average concurrent players on Planetside 2 on steam is usually 22,000...That seems pretty low given the claims of 1.6 million players total.

most Europeans don't use steam because of the fact that steam had the US launcher which the pro Seiben users could not use. it was crazy . Not every ps2 user likes steam. Review site redirect to the official website on their reviews which has a huge "freetoplay" download now on it .

MrBloodworth · 2012-12-12, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by JawsOfLife

The average concurrent players on Planetside 2 on steam is usually 22,000...That seems pretty low given the claims of 1.6 million players total.

Higher at most times than any other FPS on steam.

Tooterfish · 2012-12-12, 04:01 PM

Like Phantom mentioned, Steam does not represent two of the largest demographics: Europe and other continents, and people who choose not to use steam to open launchpad. I have the Steam version, and I can still launch the game through launchpad without starting Steam, so why would I? Multiply Steam number by at least 4, and you have a far more accurate number than what is up on their stats page. That would, at this time, put PS2 second only to DOTA 2, and that is being conservative.