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A Buff Gay Dude posted:Lol I mean they just took a snapshot of players currently in activities at a certain time each day, that's really not a good metric for anything Or maybe not people are bad at interpreting stuff and I shouldn't trust people
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PathAsc posted:I legit miss the days of html fansites and ad free YouTube. Just use uBlock
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Oct 24, 2017 18:07
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A Buff Gay Dude posted:DTR is part of the Destiny Ate My Balls webring Well then I can be ok with that actionjackson posted:Just use uBlock Actually I just use vimeo 
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Oct 24, 2017 18:09
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Just like ping bars in game don't accurately reflect connection quality and lag, right?
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Oct 24, 2017 18:10
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deadwing posted:I mean they just took a snapshot of players currently in activities at a certain time each day, that's really not a good metric for anything That's not what was being measured dude. They took the number of unique accounts in ANY activity over a 24hr period and split that up into PvE and PvP. It's not a perfect stat and people were in fact using it wrong but the trend line for the stat is a pretty valid way to measure the health of a game. There's a reason almost every online fps tracks it.
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Oct 24, 2017 18:14
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A Buff Gay Dude posted:That's not what was being measured dude. They took the number of unique accounts in ANY activity over a 24hr period and split that up into PvE and PvP. some dipshit said that and I trusted them, that's what I get for not wanting to watch a three minute video
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Oct 24, 2017 18:17
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Unique accounts participating in activities not accurate depiction of number of people playing the game: this is Trump's America.
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Oct 24, 2017 18:18
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I wonder if it counts logging in, looking at the character screen, then logging off and watching Netflix? Cuz thats how I play D2
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Oct 24, 2017 18:22
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How! posted:I wonder if it counts logging in, looking at the character screen, then logging off and watching Netflix? No, doesn't count if you only hit the tower too, need to enter a pve or pvp zone Source: wasted my time watching destiny trackers video
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Oct 24, 2017 18:23
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How! posted:I wonder if it counts logging in, looking at the character screen, then logging off and watching Netflix? Bungie knows you did that but I'd be surprised if they passed it through to the public API, you probably have to start an activity to show up on DTR
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Oct 24, 2017 18:24
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There's no way this system is UNDER STATING population though, lol
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Oct 24, 2017 18:26
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How! posted:I wonder if it counts logging in, looking at the character screen, then logging off and watching Netflix? *after 100 plus hours
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Oct 24, 2017 18:27
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what happens when our resident assburger game data analyst verifies this game as dead?
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Oct 24, 2017 18:29
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Remember how end of life Destiny 1 had nothing but red bars in crucible because it mushed you into a match with the other 11 guys on your hemisphere?
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Oct 24, 2017 18:31
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A Buff Gay Dude posted:Lol Bungie Baghdad Bob
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Oct 24, 2017 18:31
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:There's no way this system is UNDER STATING population though, lol This morning i logged in to look at Eververse and clean up my vault. I'm probably not playing tonight It's me, the forgotten guardian
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Oct 24, 2017 18:32
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How upset do you think Bungie are about people not grinding for hours every day, considering that they not only designed the game to not be grinded every day but actively discourages you from doing so (with power levels of non-Milestone drops not going above a certain number, etc.) The game sold a ton and unlike D1 all the initial reviews / first impressions to casuals were very positive, and those people will all likely be back for the expansions. It's us no lifers that are yelling that the house is on fire when we're probably not even in the right house
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Oct 24, 2017 19:02
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Roman posted:How upset do you think Bungie are about people not grinding for hours every day, considering that they not only designed the game to not be grinded every day but actively discourages you from doing so (with power levels of non-Milestone drops not going above a certain number, etc.) Yeah we know but let us be mad
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Oct 24, 2017 19:11
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"bungie didn't intend for you to like it, and they already have your money" Just like that, I'm calm and cool and serene
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Oct 24, 2017 19:16
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Norns posted:*after 100 plus hours I live in a glass house and ill throw stones wherever the hell I like
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Oct 24, 2017 19:19
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gently caress the stupid chest lockouts. Did get my ramen banner finally
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Oct 24, 2017 19:20
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:"bungie didn't intend for you to like it, and they already have your money" And there are weird inconsistencies. Like for as much as they're focusing on Eververse, I'd think someone who grinds for hours would be far more likely to buy cosmetic stuff than someone who does their milestones on Tuesday, dicks around in Quickplay, then fucks off for the week. But I don't know poo poo about business, so
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Oct 24, 2017 19:27
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Chest lockout is the reason I pretty much don't bother anymore with planet mats: they contribute to lockout and are worth nothing really. I still don't get why hvt chests are just some tokens and Flashpoint mobs are worth nothing
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Oct 24, 2017 19:32
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I still don't understand the purpose of those *named* yellow bar bosses who randomly appear on planets and don't drop anything other than a token and some glimmer, and a purple engram if you're really lucky. Like that one Cabal boss on Io with the shield who spawns mobs around him and is a pain in the rear end to kill, but doesn't drop anything when he dies.
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Oct 24, 2017 19:37
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Roman posted:I still don't understand the purpose of those *named* yellow bar bosses who randomly appear on planets and don't drop anything other than a token and some glimmer, and a purple engram if you're really lucky. Like that one Cabal boss on Io with the shield who spawns mobs around him and is a pain in the rear end to kill, but doesn't drop anything when he dies. The chance for a purple engram. That's about the only reason you'd ever deal with them
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Oct 24, 2017 19:40
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Roman posted:I still don't understand the purpose of those *named* yellow bar bosses who randomly appear on planets and don't drop anything other than a token and some glimmer, and a purple engram if you're really lucky. Like that one Cabal boss on Io with the shield who spawns mobs around him and is a pain in the rear end to kill, but doesn't drop anything when he dies. Their purpose is to drop a token and maybe engram. What else would they be for.
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Oct 24, 2017 19:40
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Exactly I think last night was the first time the raid even dropped more than one engram for me
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Oct 24, 2017 19:40
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Roman posted:I still don't understand the purpose of those *named* yellow bar bosses who randomly appear on planets and don't drop anything other than a token and some glimmer, and a purple engram if you're really lucky. Like that one Cabal boss on Io with the shield who spawns mobs around him and is a pain in the rear end to kill, but doesn't drop anything when he dies. That guy on Io was so idiot blueberries could worry about trying to kill him and failing while I tried to secure all 4 faction supplies by myself.
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Oct 24, 2017 19:42
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Voidwalker blink is great in crucible...no one knows where the gently caress you end up. It's even worth having a relatively lame crucible super. Balancing factor: I usually don't know where the gently caress I am after I blink either.
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Oct 24, 2017 19:48
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I wouldn’t be surprised if Activision pressured Bungie to pressure the Destiny Tracker team to take it down. Activision seems determined to hide the player counts in their COD games. They want people to see their decreasing sales.
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Oct 24, 2017 19:52
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Mill Village posted:I wouldn’t be surprised if Activision pressured Bungie to pressure the Destiny Tracker team to take it down. trials in a couple weeks with streamers moving to PC and COD nabbing other people should be interesting
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Oct 24, 2017 19:56
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Mill Village posted:I wouldn’t be surprised if Activision pressured Bungie to pressure the Destiny Tracker team to take it down. If this is the case the API endpoint will also be disabled, we'll see if someone discovers this.
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Oct 24, 2017 19:59
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haveblue posted:If this is the case the API endpoint will also be disabled, we'll see if someone discovers this. yeah, it's just an API so if activision were pissed they would have just had bungie disable that i think it's more likely that what someone else said earlier is true: DTR makes its money from puffing up the game, and showing a daily population chart that might make people wary about playing doesn't help with that
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Oct 24, 2017 20:01
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Any such pressure would be meaningless as the stats are produced by querying the open API, and to prevent it bungie would have to remove the ability for us to query the games we've played. All it takes is someone else to crank out a new website showing activity. edit - oops posted a little late, guess I shouldn't have done real work mid post
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Oct 24, 2017 20:01
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The DTR guy says there was no pressure from Bungie and they removed it because of people interpreting it as a measure of the player base (as opposed to a measure of the trend of the engagement of the player base). I see no reason to think he's lying, but I also think it's a monumentally dumb decision and looks extremely defensive/bad.
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Oct 24, 2017 20:12
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"It's just a measure of how much people are logging in to engage with the game. That's no way a measure of how healthy the base is!" ?????
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Oct 24, 2017 20:15
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It doesn't account for the people that log in, go to the Tower, and then sign off. An integral part of the healthy population!
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Oct 24, 2017 20:29
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:It doesn't account for the people that log in, go to the Tower, and then sign off. need that daily dose of traveler ball s
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Oct 24, 2017 20:46
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PathAsc posted:Chest lockout is the reason I pretty much don't bother anymore with planet mats: they contribute to lockout and are worth nothing really. I still don't get why hvt chests are just some tokens and Flashpoint mobs are worth nothing Flashpoint mobs drop 1 token, no chest. You have to walk over and pick it up.
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Chilichimp posted:Flashpoint mobs drop 1 token, no chest. You have to walk over and pick it up. It's funny how easy they are to miss. I'll wreck some yellow bar rear end in a top hat, and run off. Come back a few minutes later after a public event or something and there's a pile of glimmer chips and a green pyramid sitting on the ground. I'll do the same thing for VIP chests, assuming the loot will pop into my inventory instead of spewing on the ground.
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