will the game reach 1 million players?

[moosepoop]

do you guys think the game has the potential to reach 1 million players online at the same time? do you guys think sony has enough equipment to provide that many servers?

[SKYeXile]

at the same time? no, i cant see it happening.

[SixShooter]

Doubtfull.

COD would have a hard time hitting that number outside of launch day.

[Greeniegriz]

Do i want it to? Yes

Will it? As Sky said, probably not at same time... Id love to be wrong.

Cheers,

GG

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[adddemon]

will never happen

[vasito]

lol never happen 1 million is not that much :rolleyes:

[Boone]

lol never happen 1 million is not that much :rolleyes:

How many games do you know that have 1 million players online at the same time? There isn't very many, and none of them are shooters.

[scroogh]

If they advertise everything well, put it up on steam, perhaps get cross promo items with games like Team Fortress 2. How probable is it? Reasonably actually, I mean the game is confirmed to be on steam and I'm tripping over the damn advertisements which is actually nice.

[goneglockin]

Will be lucky to break 300K concurrent users.

[greenberetdelta]

How many games do you know that have 1 million players online at the same time? There isn't very many, and none of them are shooters.

call of duty

[vasito]

Im pretty sure cod and minecraft have had 1million. Also lets not forget WoW.

And if that piece of smelly sh&t disgrace Battlefield3 can get 100 000-15000. Im pretty sure PS2 can get 1 million.

[Salidin]

call of duty

On PC? or a single platform

Nope across all 3 platforms? sure

[mindmines]

The LAG..... Would be horrible! I think...... lol. But, it would be awesome!

[Figment]

Can see around 20K-40K online per continent with relative ease. World of Tanks pulls those numbers of too, not counting the larger Russian and Chinese servers. Total online and not asleep, American, Europe, Australian, Russian and Chinese servers? 80-100K? Would we be able to tell?

[greenberetdelta]

On PC? or a single platform

Nope across all 3 platforms? sure

i know that call of duy mw 3 on the xbox at at least 1 mil for a while

[Envenom]

What's the avg pop for CoD and WoW during peak hours? Anyone know?

[OnexBigxHebrew]

I love how everyone cites CoD's having a million same-time users as a reason why planetside could.

I BET you that number wasn't on PC.

Doesn't matter anyway, because as awesome as that would be, this game will never touch that number unless it becomes integrated into facebook and goes from MMOFPS to a halloween themed bubble-bobble clone. :D.

[Salidin]

What's the avg pop for CoD and WoW during peak hours? Anyone know?

This is PC

http://www.gamestat.co.uk/

[Envenom]

This is PC

http://www.gamestat.co.uk/

Intersting. Thanks.

So according to that BF3 for PC is only averaging around 35,000 online at any given time a month. I would have thought that number would be wayyyy higher.

Chances of PS2 hitting 1 million? lol. If BF3 can't do it PS2 has NO chance. Love the game but lets be honest here, EA has the marketing budget SOE doesn't. I'm sure the F2P will help though.

[Goku]

Intersting. Thanks.

So according to that BF3 for PC is only averaging around 35,000 online at given time a month. I would have thought that number would be wayyyy higher.

Chances of PS2 hitting 1 million? lol. If BF3 can't do it PS2 has NO chance. Love the game but lets be honest here, EA has the marketing budget SOE doesn't. I'm sure the F2P will help though.

My thoughts exactly. I don't see the game bursting with 1 million at one time. I'm sure they will hit the 1 million players at some point down the road.

TF2 peaked at 65K today and thats F2P. Have to see what happens.

Steam active stats:
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

[james]

Nope pc is to spread out. Just take a look at the steam stats, very rare do many games break 250k

[Sunrock]

As long as the server I play on have a healthy population I could not care less about other servers...

[capiqu]

I could easily see 1,000,000 chinese on they do everything in the millions.

[Salad Snake]

What about League of Legends? I think that's the level of popularity SOE should aim for.

[Salidin]

What about League of Legends? I think that's the level of popularity SOE should aim for.

bit old.

http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2011/11/riotlolinfographicfull.jpg

[Goku]

What about League of Legends? I think that's the level of popularity SOE should aim for.

League of Legends developer Riot Games has announced that the game is averaging over four million players per day, double the player base that it reported just four months ago. This includes a peak of 1.3 million concurrent players, and 11.5 million active monthly players, and 30 million registered players. (http://www.shacknews.com/article/71159/league-of-legends-stats-4m-per-day#)

If SOE can somehow manage to get that many. That will make everyone scrambling to make a MMOFPS.

[Sunrock]

If SOE can somehow manage to get that many. That will make everyone scrambling to make a MMOFPS.

But do we really want that? As soon as something becomes mainstream it starts to suck. At least to the fans.

[sgtbjack]

Of course not, I only have 999,998 friends! Just kidding(about having friends:cry:

Seriously though, I talked to my co-workers who don't play any mmo's and they are all sold(cause of the facts that its a fps, looks fun, and theres lots of people fighting at once, so who knows)

[Salad Snake]

Thanks for the info Salidin.

Of course not, I only have 999,998 friends! Just kidding(about having friends:cry:

Seriously though, I talked to my co-workers who don't play any mmo's and they are all sold(cause of the facts that its a fps, looks fun, and theres lots of people fighting at once, so who knows)
This. If there's any game I want to catch on with the mainstream LoL-style, it's this one. Even my friends and coworkers who aren't PC gamers play League.

[andehh]

Isn't steams average player count at any one time round 2 million?

I doubt it, surely that much traffic directed at a few places in earth would really cause problems?

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[exLupo]

I have no idea what the pop caps are going to be. One anecdotal post* says 2k per team per map. So lets just play with those numbers.

(2000x3)3 = 18000
1000000/18000 = 55.55... So 56 maxed out servers to break 1m concurrent players.

For concurrency, SWTOR peaked around 350k. WoW, at some point, averaged 900k so over 1m isn't out of the question. PS2's too niche, I don't see it happening.

*http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/5158764#5158764

[Sunrock]

I have no idea what the pop caps are going to be. One anecdotal post* says 2k per team per map. So lets just play with those numbers.

(2000x3)3 = 18000
1000000/18000 = 55.55... So 56 maxed out servers to break 1m concurrent players.

For concurrency, SWTOR peaked around 350k. WoW, at some point, averaged 900k so over 1m isn't out of the question. PS2's too niche, I don't see it happening.

*http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/5158764#5158764

"2k per map" do you meant continent or? Are you counting each continent have 3 maps as it looks like that in your math.

And yea 6k per continent sounds reasonable... consider each continent is 8km x 8km

[Darthkorr]

On PC? or a single platform

Nope across all 3 platforms? sure


For a game that breaks sales records opening night every year it launches it doesn't have a million people playing? Are you joking? It sells MILLIONS, thats with a S. Your telling me less than half dont go home upon day 1 purchase and play? Im sorry to tell you but more than a million play at 1 time. now 3-6months after release. you'd prolly be right. but at LEAST launch day and the following week. After that prolly not.

Hate COD btw. thought i'd let that be known. not defending the game just using it to make a point.

[Boomhowser]

Im gonna say yes its possible purely because everyone else is saying no!!
seriously thiers no reason why It can't hit the mark, F2P, looks damn good, has lazors & floaty tanks, good teamplay mechanics, looks damn good, Epic battles to be had, you can wear zebra striped camo, ohh did I mention it looks damn good..
So be positive and think Yes PS2 will reach 1 million players... be proud be positive be thier!!

[Salad Snake]

^I agree, we should be positive guys. Remember that this is also a completely new genre for a large percentage of video gamers in general, there is a bit of unpredictability in that.

For a game that breaks sales records opening night every year it launches it doesn't have a million people playing? Are you joking? It sells MILLIONS, thats with a S. Your telling me less than half dont go home upon day 1 purchase and play? Im sorry to tell you but more than a million play at 1 time. now 3-6months after release. you'd prolly be right. but at LEAST launch day and the following week. After that prolly not.

Hate COD btw. thought i'd let that be known. not defending the game just using it to make a point.

While that is certainly true for a retail title, the F2P sales model looks a bit different. Starts out with much less players normally, but gains quicker because word of mouth effect is much more important for a F2P. Just look at LoL's numbers over time.

[Ivam Akorahil]

call of duty

never has (btw CoD sucks )

flame hat on

[Sunrock]

For a game that breaks sales records opening night every year it launches it doesn't have a million people playing? Are you joking? It sells MILLIONS, thats with a S. Your telling me less than half dont go home upon day 1 purchase and play? Im sorry to tell you but more than a million play at 1 time. now 3-6months after release. you'd prolly be right. but at LEAST launch day and the following week. After that prolly not.

Hate COD btw. thought i'd let that be known. not defending the game just using it to make a point.

That would be true if every one in the world lived in the same time zone. But there is like 9 hours difference between central europ and the west coast for an example. So when some people log in others log out.