In Xfire's tracking of the gameplay statistics of over 8 million users, they noticed that World of Warcraft playing users' average game time for September dropped 18 percent from the August numbers. That doesn't seem right, does it?
WoW isn't alone -- all of the tracked MMOs' average gameplay hours have dropped. The second place Guild Wars showed a 13 percent drop, and Silkroad Online fell 27 percent. Shooters are down as well, with top ranked games Call of Duty 2 Multiplayer and Counter-Strike dropping 12 and 18 percent respectively.
It's probably safe to assume that some gamers had to go back to school, and the end of summer vacation in the US and Europe is a possible reason for the drop in traffic. Who knows, maybe Halo 3 had something to do with it.
[via Gamesindustry.biz]
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I'm headed back to the Command and Conquer series for immediate gratification.
(Don't get hit or else you will drop them all)
And Halo (sadly).
Seriously. Duh, everyone who isn't Huangism.
Got boring.
Go hellgate: london!
Perhaps this is lending to the decrease? Maybe all the new MMOs coming out are spurring migrations.
]Hellgate may be boring out of the box...
It's getting annoying, and I may have to consider alternatives. Suggestions? Voice chat isn't a really important thing to have, since we either play on LAN's or just don't play at the same time. However, launching games from the client is cool as is a smooth "In-game" interface.
I quit it allmost 4 months ago now after 2 years of slaving away on Azaroth... ya... freedom (and having more money)tastes sweeeet.