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Cubsfan23 · Jan 12, 2005

I heard Socom's average was only 22,000

Wario64 · Jan 12, 2005

Socom 2 usually had about 30k people on at night, not sure how many unique users through the whole day though...maybe another 10-20k? This was like 4-5 months after release though

DopeyFish · Jan 15, 2005

there's roughly 100,000 people online right now (almost 500,000 uniques)... wonder if it's going to hit about 150,000-175,000+ by the end of the day

teepo · Jan 16, 2005

Wario64 said:
Socom 2 usually had about 30k people on at night, not sure how many unique users through the whole day though...maybe another 10-20k? This was like 4-5 months after release though

socom1 had a 50k average at one point if i'm not mistaken. then again that game included international servers from the start. socom2 segregated the community until recently.

KeithFranklin · Jan 17, 2005

Monday 1/17/2005 4:50 EST

Halo 2 - Xbox Live Statistics
(last 24 hrs)

Unique Players: 437,805

Matches Logged: 1,167,200

Players Online: 105,824

Cubsfan23 · Apr 25, 2005

Halo 2 - Xbox Live Statistics
(last 24 hrs)

Unique Players: 428,286

Matches Logged: 1,152,050

Players Online: 114,084

This was from a couple of hours ago. Anybody got current numbers for WoW and Counter-Strike?

DopeyFish · Apr 25, 2005

Counter-Strike 58,532
Counter-Strike: Source 21,015

as of 15 minutes ago

(100,000 on all Half-Life and Half-Life 2 MP games combined)

radrelic · Apr 25, 2005

DopeyFish said:
Counter-Strike 58,532
Counter-Strike: Source 21,015

as of 15 minutes ago

Where'd you get these numbers? GameSpy?

DopeyFish · Apr 25, 2005

Cerrius said:
Where'd you get these numbers? GameSpy?

http://www.steampowered.com/status/game_stats.html

FiRez · Apr 25, 2005

Cubsfan23 said:
Halo 2 - Xbox Live Statistics
(last 24 hrs)

Unique Players: 428,286

Matches Logged: 1,152,050

Players Online: 114,084

This was from a couple of hours ago. Anybody got current numbers for WoW and Counter-Strike?

the numbers of unique players of Halo 2 is around the same numbers of players online at peak hours in WoW.
Let alone CS (is supposed to be the most played online game).
Not trolling, I just read that facts but can't find a link
I'm still happy for Halo 2 the numbers are impressive but that makes you think How many users bought it for the SP alone :/, they should get H:CE instead.

GhaleonEB · Apr 25, 2005

Wow - Halo 2 clears 100k pretty much every day, sometimes getting up to 125k or more on weekends. I didn't have any kind of benchmark to measure that against before - that's a ton of players. Wow.

DopeyFish · Apr 25, 2005

FiRez said:
the numbers of unique players of Halo 2 is around the same numbers of players online at peak hours in WoW.
Let alone CS (is supposed to be the most played online game).
Not trolling, I just read that facts but can't find a link
I'm still happy for Halo 2 the numbers are impressive but that makes you think How many users bought it for the SP alone :/, they should get H:CE instead.

CS peaks at about 160,000

GhaleonEB · Apr 25, 2005

FiRez said:
the numbers of unique players of Halo 2 is around the same numbers of players online at peak hours in WoW.
Let alone CS (is supposed to be the most played online game).
Not trolling, I just read that facts but can't find a link
I'm still happy for Halo 2 the numbers are impressive but that makes you think How many users bought it for the SP alone :/, they should get H:CE instead.

Considering WoW is primarily an online, subscription based game I'm actually surprised it doesn't blow past Halo 2.

GhaleonEB · Apr 25, 2005

DopeyFish said:
CS peaks at about 160,000

Just curious - when does it peak? Halo 2 tends to between 8 and 10pm PDT.

FiRez · Apr 25, 2005

DopeyFish said:
CS peaks at about 160,000

That's much lower than I expected. But I'm still sure that I read multiple times that CS is the most played online game.

DopeyFish · Apr 25, 2005

GhaleonEB said:
Just curious - when does it peak? Halo 2 tends to between 8 and 10pm PDT.

now this is odd.

if i'm reading this right it's 8AM PST to 1PM PST. (even at 5AM PST it starts to hit it's peak)

wtf. That's an odd peak time

btw this is just the last 2 days i'm going by

Cubsfan23 · Apr 25, 2005

DopeyFish said:
now this is odd.

if i'm reading this right it's 8AM PST to 1PM PST. (even at 5AM PST it starts to hit it's peak)

wtf. That's an odd peak time

Doesn't that include Europe?

DopeyFish · Apr 25, 2005

Cubsfan23 said:
Doesn't that include Europe?

it's everyone who plays through Steam... doesn't say from where

so it's worldwide

GhaleonEB · Apr 25, 2005

DopeyFish said:
now this is odd.

if i'm reading this right it's 8AM PST to 1PM PST. (even at 5AM PST it starts to hit it's peak)

wtf. That's an odd peak time

btw this is just the last 2 days i'm going by

Must be more popular in Europe than the US.

radrelic · Apr 25, 2005

Interesting numbers.

I could've sworn Counter-Strike used to peak at higher than 160k in the WON days, Steam must've cut that number down a bit.

SA-X · Apr 25, 2005

Another random number to ponder:

4,219 people are playing Starcraft on battle.net right now.

Pretty good for a game from '97 I suppose.

DopeyFish · Apr 27, 2005

how about this stat?

If you average onling game hours by copies of the game sold (220 million / 6.7 million) it averages to nearly 33 hours played online PER COPY. That is one impressive number.

GhaleonEB · Apr 27, 2005

DopeyFish said:
how about this stat?

If you average onling game hours by copies of the game sold (220 million / 6.7 million) it averages to nearly 33 hours played online PER COPY. That is one impressive number.

Yup. It really speaks to how deep the online game is, especially for a shooter. I've put in about that much time, and when the new maps hit matchmaking, I'll do it again. And again, when the other five hit. And then again for old times sake......

op_ivy · Apr 27, 2005

DopeyFish said:
how about this stat?

If you average onling game hours by copies of the game sold (220 million / 6.7 million) it averages to nearly 33 hours played online PER COPY. That is one impressive number.

its actually MUCH higher then that though, since no where near all 6.7 million of those people are on live...

Cubsfan23 · Apr 27, 2005

Halo 2 - Xbox Live Statistics
(last 24 hrs)

Unique Players: 511,733

Matches Logged: 991,702

Players Online: 118,217

That's pretty insane for after midnight on the east coast on a tuesday.

FiRez · Apr 27, 2005

Cubsfan23 said:
Halo 2 - Xbox Live Statistics
(last 24 hrs)

Unique Players: 511,733

Matches Logged: 991,702

Players Online: 118,217

That's pretty insane for after midnight on the east coast on a tuesday.

That's the 1st time that I see more than Half-million of unique players

op_ivy · Apr 27, 2005

it would be interesting to see these stats from launch graphed in excel... just to see how they peaked at launch, the amount of time for them to subside a bit, and then how they may have peaked again when the AU was released and again when the maps came out.

has any site even kept a log of these numbers?

Bigfoot · Apr 27, 2005

Cubsfan23 said:
Halo 2 - Xbox Live Statistics
(last 24 hrs)

Unique Players: 511,733

Matches Logged: 991,702

Players Online: 118,217

That's pretty insane for after midnight on the east coast on a tuesday.

The "Players Online" is the number of players over the last 24 hours, not the number of player at this time.

The GameSpy numbers for Half-Life/Counter Strike ARE the number of players on at this time, which is why it seems less than the Halo 2 numbers, but in reality, the number of online CS players >> the number of Halo 2 players over one day.

DopeyFish · Apr 27, 2005

players online is a current number. the other 2 numbers are 24 hour stats

Bigfoot · Apr 27, 2005

DopeyFish said:
players online is a current number. the other 2 numbers are 24 hour stats

Really? Wow, then Halo 2 > CS, as CS only has about 50,000 players right now.

GhaleonEB · Apr 27, 2005

DopeyFish said:
players online is a current number. the other 2 numbers are 24 hour stats

Yup, that's right. It hits near 100k every night, but it's definately higher since the AU and map packs.

Cubsfan23 · May 6, 2005

Halo 2 - Xbox Live Statistics
(last 24 hrs)
Unique Players: 435,899
Matches Logged: 1,145,429
Players Online: 122,560

Deleted member 1235 · May 6, 2005

so many people, yet it takes AGES to get a match now. maybe just some bugs after the update? And What in gods name is wrong with the sword and grav lift now?

GhaleonEB · May 6, 2005

catfish said:
so many people, yet it takes AGES to get a match now. maybe just some bugs after the update? And What in gods name is wrong with the sword and grav lift now?

It takes a bunch of matches for the system to 'learn' what kind of connections work best. It should speed up in a few days.

Cubsfan23 · Jul 6, 2005

Halo 2 - Xbox Live Statistics
(last 24 hrs)
Unique Players: 401,883
Matches Logged: 1,189,225
Players Online: 127,311

FiRez · Jul 6, 2005

Cubsfan23 said:
Halo 2 - Xbox Live Statistics
(last 24 hrs)
Unique Players: 401,883
Matches Logged: 1,189,225
Players Online: 127,311

It hasn't dropped a like I thought.

rastex · Jul 6, 2005

FiRez said:
It hasn't dropped a like I thought.

Well the new maps just got released so there's definitely going to be a spike in the short-term.

FiRez · Jul 6, 2005

rastex said:
Well the new maps just got released so there's definitely going to be a spike in the short-term.

well even if you count that, there's the people that just played it at first with the 2 month trial card

ToxicAdam · Jul 6, 2005

Do they still keep stats for the original Halo? What is the combined totals at any given time?

Agent Icebeezy · Jul 6, 2005

ToxicAdam said:
Do they still keep stats for the original Halo? What is the combined totals at any given time?

Halo 1 wasn't on XBL

JayFro · Jul 6, 2005

Cubsfan23 said:
Halo 2 - Xbox Live Statistics
(last 24 hrs)
Unique Players: 401,883
Matches Logged: 1,189,225
Players Online: 127,311

Damn, 8 months later and still going like a mofo.

duderon · Jul 7, 2005

I saw 150+ thousand last night.

Agent Icebeezy · Jul 7, 2005

Myself and 3 buds are playing Team Slayer tonight.

Also, I don't like acting like a bitch at times, sometimes people are just really good and they hand you your ass. Other times, it's blatant cheating. Take this for example from a few nights ago. I had to email Bungie after this.

If you are going to cheat, don't make it so damn obvious.

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