I always used to go to Gamespy and check out the number of people playing games, and I always thought it wasnt right - are 72k people really playing Half Life right now?
Anyway I went to http://www.csports.net and it seems every time I go there, almost 1,000 more people are playing ET than BF2. It also makes sense that they show the new CS having the most people, with HL 1’s CS coming second.
So which site is right? Do more people play ET than BF2?
I guess a lot of people quit Bf2, it was number 3 some time ago while ET was 5th.
No.
The problem is that CSSports don’t “see” a lot of BF2 servers. Gamespy, on the other hand, hosts BF2’s master servers - so they have the most accurate server count for BF2. It’s like going to steampowered for HL1/2 stats or Microsoft/Bungie for Halo stats… they’ll always be more accurate.
Both have more-or-less the same number for ET players (~9,000 right now on CSSports, ~11,000 on Gamespy - more!) but very different for BF2 (Gamespy lists ~30,000 BF2 players right now, CSSports has ~9,000 right below ET). It doesn’t take a genius to see the problem is that cssports is ignoring a lot of players/servers (and no, BF2 doesn’t have online bots).
And not really ‘a lot of people’ quit Bf2. http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=125077149&size=o shows it has been quite stable on the past few months although it’s dropping very very slowly.
Now, does this mean something?
No, unless you like to look at things with an e-dick mindset. More or less players doesn’t mean a game is better or worse. Guess what, you have choice.
Sure gonna do… Hell, I don’t even play Battlefield 2 anymore… I hate to update the game, it’s so tricky…
Hehe, I was just thinking that.
Should I play some BF2? I dunno what patch, what game mechanics have changed completely, etc… no, guess I’ll watch some TV.
imo this poll on the official EA forum still says it all:
http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=20688&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
I think BF2’s ammount of players is attributed to the fact that EA marketed the product out the ass. If there had been commercials for ET that said “come play et the free online shooter” with a good screenshot/movie it might have as many people as BF2 does. Also the fact that ET is getting to the end of its mainstream life in the gaming world may have something to do with it.
So I decide to play some BF2… remember I thought it would be a pain?
1 hour later…
Sigh. I remember how much of pain in the *ss it was to setup my controls the first time… gonna try and just copy profile and past it into the new install.
1 hour later…
fingers crossed
This reminds me of a german advertise slogan of a big swedish furniture shop.
A variation:
Still installing.
Or already playing.
Original (hard to translate):
Wohnst Du noch.
Oder lebst Du schon.
Has something to do with the quality of living.
use the ea downloader is miles easier, EA/Dice only do patches when they are releasin
another rmod for us to pay for haha, got no chance as i am waiting for ET:QW like all the rest of you.
I was looking at GRAW but I saw a friends copy and ewww is all i can say, these future soldiers must have great body armour as you cant jump…can you imagine a soldier running in the middle of the road and bumps into a brick…damn a brickin road cover me i have to run around it…
Keep in mind BF2 got this much popularity with bloated marketing machine, whereas W:ET had none (to my knowledge). Not to mention the age of W:ET…
To anyone who’s not convinced that BF2 sucks:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=100422050533783577&q=genre%3Acomedy