Currently there are Zero (0) Steam players playing SOTA.. NOT

This is quite interesting,

It could be a bug, but anyway. Here is the live Steam Data for SOTA whilst I was playing on Steam....

 

Just logging back in now. Steem just dropped another 2gb patch which may have something to do with it Steevo

 

Ouch, that 783-785 patch was only 150M for those of us using the regular launcher.

But I suspect the real problem is that however steamcharts gets their data, sometimes whatever is collecting it fails during an hourly sample. So instead of recording it as "no sample" and skipping it in the graph, it records it as zero. If you look at the current 30 day chart, you can see six of these glitches.

 

Well, if it's reporting zero and you're playing, that's says a lot about the accuracy of that reporting tool, heh.

 

Odd that these problems only seem to affect SOTA's SteamCharts numbers on months when folks are trying to justify huge drops in player count and not the other hundreds of games tracked.

 

Probably because if anyone else is like me, they don't care what Steam is saying about other games.

 

Yea you're right, gotta be. Its all by release version number (I assume), so I was momentarily version out of date.. DAMIT!

For a sec I thought we had 15 gazillion members playing on Steam and the tracker was buggered.

 

So Valve is in on the conspiracy to sink SotA by publishing skewed numbers? Activision/Blizzard must really be getting scared

 

I think most smart people have moved over to Portalarium's solid launcher and have been avoiding the buggy steam one. Great steam, I love downloading 6x the amount of data on my capped internet! Awesome!

Just goes to show steam is just about the worst way to access the game.

 

That post made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. It ws so cleverly done. Ive used STEAM for years, since Valve were cool actually, and it ws and is stable, never had a launch issue.

 

Feel free to refute where I'm wrong...

 

feel free to refute whatever you like anarchist

 

Your personal experience with steam doesn't trump the thousands of people that had issues trying to play shroud through steam. Not sure why you're calling me names. I think steam is an awful service/product, personally.

 

You know, suddenly i think you are absolutely right.

 

Maybe the future buyers cares about the numbers..
Zero player = zero money for Port.

 

Glad I could sway you

 

Why should anyone use Steam at all? Such a tiny and unsuccesful, unimportant gaming plattform... If we can install many different launchers and clients, one for each game, why use just one single launcher?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/308330/number-stream-users/

Strange that I don't have any problems with updates through Steam with other games except for SotA. Even other Unity games download small patches... But yeah, I guess it is a problem with Steam and not with SotA...

 

I don't have any issues updating SotA either...I've never had to wait for an update. I've never had issues launching the game. I've never had issues playing and accessing steam through the overlay. I really don't understand why so many are steering people away from Steam for accessing SotA. Seems like Steam is free advertising for SotA. I'm guessing that those who say not to use Steam probably don't play any other games, or use the social networking aspect of Steam. It could be very powerful for advertising the game to those who haven't even heard of it. They see you on their friends list playing, and decide to check it out.

First, we need to do something about those poor reviews.

 

You had me up until that second paragraph. Where have you been? Tons of people have issues with steam and these ginormous patches that they do.

 

You'd have to know @Lord_Darkmoon to know that he was being a smartass (that's Caska approved btw.)
Oh, and @Burzmali I said that I don't care about the number of reported Steam players on Shroud. I care even less about whether their numbers are accurate. You seem to want to argue with me. Unfortunately the game is a little more fun than trolling you so I'm going to concede the floor to you. You are absolutely right about whatever you were trying to call me out on.