Played time drops 18% on Xfire

Sagath — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:47:32 GMT

"In other news, the world is still revolving around the sun."

omg, playtime of gaming online drops when kids go back to school?! Say it aint so!

Seriously, is this news?

Played time drops 18% on Xfire

phaden — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:47:31 GMT

Well, i find it an intresting trend, and enjoy hering about it, so yes, yes it is.

Played time drops 18% on Xfire

Burnzy — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:47:30 GMT

i can easily relate this to a business. my restaurant has its slowest months of Auguest and September. But now that october has come, business has picked up and we have waitlist almost constantly. Its just how the economy is.

Played time drops 18% on Xfire

Gizim — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:47:29 GMT

This is easy... HALO 3

Played time drops 18% on Xfire

spritepixie — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:47:28 GMT

not really... considering this is for the month of September and Halo came out on sept 25. not quite enough to effect it that much.

but it IS easy to figure out since the reason really is because of school. and people like me who never bother to open their xfire anymore...

Played time drops 18% on Xfire

h41fgod — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:47:27 GMT

"the top ten FPS games played on Xfire, which all dropped across the board."

Played time drops 18% on Xfire

kudret — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:47:26 GMT

dont forget tf2 and quake wars

Played time drops 18% on Xfire

DarkXale — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:47:25 GMT

Reduced server strain, why complain?

Played time drops 18% on Xfire

dsrbo — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:47:24 GMT

Seriously, this isn't any news at all. It's always been like this. You could see playtime reducing 20 years ago after summer, too. And that was when people still played analog games like chess *giggles*

Oh well, but back to the thing itself... does XFire really matter? I mean, XFire doesn't smell like a thing for Joe and Jane Average. And if I do look around that for people with a job, playtime is roughly the same all over the year, because summer won't give you more or less spare time.

So I guess, the drop really only affects players that still go to school or students and not adults with a job.

Played time drops 18% on Xfire

helraider — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:47:23 GMT

yup, nothing new under the sun, we gamers app don't take that much holidays and just play more instead.

sounds familiar, i always play like double of normal in every holiday.

Played time drops 18% on Xfire

Jarlaxle — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:47:22 GMT

<quote>i can easily relate this to a business. my restaurant has its slowest months of Auguest and September. But now that october has come, business has picked up and we have waitlist almost constantly. Its just how the economy is.</quote>

quite different here. Restaurants and caffes are booming here during the summer cause of tourism

Played time drops 18% on Xfire

Yid — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:47:21 GMT

It's probably down because Xfire is still causing certain keys and mouse buttons to not work in game. I have to shut down Xfire every time I start playing so that I can use all of my mouse buttons.

Played time drops 18% on Xfire

Ekreii — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:47:20 GMT

XFire always minimizes my games when it gets disconnected.

Also, people have to go to school and college and do homework. So of course the time is going to drop quite a bit. Because most gamers are young.

Played time drops 18% on Xfire

Jimmerz28 — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:47:19 GMT

If by young you mean ~26 sure.

http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/gateway_demographics.html

Played time drops 18% on Xfire

stupidstu — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:47:18 GMT

Yeah, i have the problem where Xfire doesn't let some keys work in game, which is really aggravating. So i've had it off for quite a while now.