Aeon Amadi
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Posted - 2015.11.16 22:48:00 -
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Unfortunately, even with their reach being in the thousands, one critical factor that everyone seems to have forgot is that PCU =/= Unique Logins. There is no way for the Dust 514 community to view unique logins and thus the only metric to go off of is the active players online at any given time.
So, if the boycott (or strike or whatever you wanna call it) did have an effect, you probably wouldn't see it in the PCU anyway. Because we could have 1,000,000,000 "active players" (unique logins) but they could only be on for, say, long enough to get their daily login reward and their warbarge stuff.
With 2,500 - 3,000 players online, the community instantly thinks the numbers are low, that "Dust is dying", etc. In reality, there are hundreds of thousands of players that get on at various points throughout the day for varying duration.
The community's "activity" is nebulous and hard to put into words. The PCU is only a fragment of the information needed to classify what degree of activity the community has.
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Aeon Amadi
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Posted - 2015.11.17 03:13:00 -
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Ripley Riley wrote:Aeon Amadi wrote:Unfortunately, even with their reach being in the thousands, one critical factor that everyone seems to have forgot is that PCU =/= Unique Logins. There is no way for the Dust 514 community to view unique logins and thus the only metric to go off of is the active players online at any given time.
So, if the boycott (or strike or whatever you wanna call it) did have an effect, you probably wouldn't see it in the PCU anyway. Because we could have 1,000,000,000 "active players" (unique logins) but they could only be on for, say, long enough to get their daily login reward and their warbarge stuff.
With 2,500 - 3,000 players online, the community instantly thinks the numbers are low, that "Dust is dying", etc. In reality, there are hundreds of thousands of players that get on at various points throughout the day for varying duration.
The community's "activity" is nebulous and hard to put into words. The PCU is only a fragment of the information needed to classify what degree of activity the community has. All valid points, but if hundreds of players had boycotted then the peak concurrent logins would have at least dipped a little. The numbers I pulled show they didn't change at all.
That's not necessarily true. Yes, there would be a correlation for a player count reduction if 100, 333, or 750 players decided not to log on that day as their not participating would have been a contributory cause. However, being as the online player activity stayed the same from several days before, we can assume that just as many players logged on as those who had decided to boycott/strike. So even if the strike/boycott had an effect (we can't say for sure whether or not it did without evidence) any effect it did have was recovered by other players.
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