SWTOR serious challenger for WOW?

[Panda with issues...]

Star Wars: Kinect was good too.

I'm Han Solo, I'm Han Solo...

You're such a bad man.

 

[Zooggy]

Ahey,

As for star wars, KOTOR I and II were one of the few star wars games that didn't totally suck, the others being the x wing and tie fighter series, the dark forces series, and rare gems like podracer.

Wait, didn't you just list pretty much every Star Wars game? What am I missing?

Cheers,
J.

Edit: Well, there was Galaxies as well, but most people I know thought that was pretty decent...

 

[Ronin Storm]

Edit: Well, there was Galaxies as well, but most people I know thought that was pretty decent...

I was pretty upset with Galaxies.

 

[Panda with issues...]

Ahey,



Wait, didn't you just list pretty much every Star Wars game? What am I missing?

Cheers,
J.

Edit: Well, there was Galaxies as well, but most people I know thought that was pretty decent...

Hahahahaha, nowhere near.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_video_games

Just looking down that list I feel like an abused wife, thinking about how many of them I played and how many of them were plausibly carcinogenic.

 

[SgtFury]

The old arcade cabinet game was good though! Wasn't it!

Trying to get images of Nanor swaying to that game out of my head now........

 

[Xylak]

I'm Han Solo, I'm Han Solo...

No, I'm Han Solo

I'm Han Solo and so's my wife

 

[DocBot]

OTOH, in the polls you try to avoid selection bias, yes? whereas with xfire it's the people who've chosen to download it, which gives you a non-random = non-representative selection.

 

[HotStuff]

OTOH, in the polls you try to avoid selection bias, yes? whereas with xfire it's the people who've chosen to download it, which gives you a non-random = non-representative selection.

I thought xfire worked with any game?

Have they changed something?

Does xfire only work on downloaded games now?

 

[Ki!ler-Mk1]

He means its not a random selection of people being polled. But rather a selection of people who are not random at all because they chose to install xfire.

I dont completely agree, because in times gone past xfire was very mainstream, personally its more a sample of xfire users who chose not to stop using it, i mean a fall from what was it(?) 2.2m concurrent users down to ~100,000 - thats a big drop, which iirc has been over the last 8 years.

 

[Kasatka]

Well we've seen a huge shift towards games with, or even gaming services with, built in community aspects, friends lists and forumy stuff.

 

[Panda with issues...]

Well we've seen a huge shift towards games with, or even gaming services with, built in community aspects, friends lists and forumy stuff.

Even things that have NO game, like EVE.

Boom.

 

[HotStuff]

Just did my daily check of xfire stats for MMO's

- World of Warcraft (35.4%)
♦ Guild Wars 2 (6.1%)
♦ Star Wars: The Old Republic (5.2%)
♦ Aion (4.6%)
♦ Tera Online (3.6%)
♦ Eve Online (3.4%)
♦ Metin 2 (3.1%)
♦ Supreme Destiny (2.8%)
♦ The Lord of the Rings Online (2.4%)
♦ Other (33.4%)

This is the first time since release SWTOR has dropped to below 2nd place. Though still ahead of Aion and Eve, I can see the decline continue as people continue to drop their subscriptions.

 

[Huung]

Just did my daily check of xfire stats for MMO's

- World of Warcraft (35.4%)
♦ Guild Wars 2 (6.1%)
♦ Star Wars: The Old Republic (5.2%)
♦ Aion (4.6%)
♦ Tera Online (3.6%)
♦ Eve Online (3.4%)
♦ Metin 2 (3.1%)
♦ Supreme Destiny (2.8%)
♦ The Lord of the Rings Online (2.4%)
♦ Other (33.4%)

This is the first time since release SWTOR has dropped to below 2nd place. Though still ahead of Aion and Eve, I can see the decline continue as people continue to drop their subscriptions.

Only because it's a GW2 beta weekend. Stats will be a little skewed.

 

[Ki!ler-Mk1]

This is the first time since release SWTOR has dropped to below 2nd place. Though still ahead of Aion and Eve, I can see the decline continue as people continue to drop their subscriptions.

And stop using xfire, for the last month i have had it off for the longest period since i got it in 2004-5. Its a shame, and i am sure much of its downfall is down to steam, still I like it, but with 2 people on my friends list, and only playing 1 game occasionally, left me with no further use for it.

 

[HotStuff]

And stop using xfire, for the last month i have had it off for the longest period since i got it in 2004-5. ....., left me with no further use for it.

I haven't used xfire since early 2009, but I still view the xfire stats pages giving statistical data about what games xfire users play.

A debate has already taken place on the validity of the xfire stats on this thread.