Just for your poor takes I will correct my statement. If the number of concurrent stays the same throughout the whole day - then everyone on that day played for little bit over 21 hours.
That would also mean there’s over 90% bots and way less than 10% real players.
Ofcourse it’s far from truth since the concurrent flactuate, but calling it extremely flawed is bold.
Calculate it from the information provided / or the one you can find yourself if you can do better
if the concurrent number of players stays the same then this means that
only the same people remained in the game, which is what your 21h means
the same amount of people who got in, got out throughout the day, and this keeps the concurrent number at the same number, but the total amount of people who logged in the day is not the same.
it’s basic maths dude.
its bold to assume that throughout the day, the same amount of people log in the game and stay logged in all day. The more realistic approach is to multiply the peak concurrent x3 and then divide it by the 2mil hours.
so 104,411 x 3 = 313,233
total hours : 2,195,542 / projected total players for that day : 313,233 = 7hours
Also you are assuming the game is losing 30% of its playerbase each month, completely ignoring the fact that in 2023, we had massive ban waves, so we cannot draw any conclusion from your “trend”
if anything after they did the latest ban wave, we have a better picture and it’s estimated that the ccu is around 50-60k players. And that was everyones assumption for many months now.
? what is an alt roster? you mean established players who are using a different account?
so the 10 people i rejected on vykas yesterday with <100 roster lvl and characters at 1460 with green gems were all multiboxers.
okey!
sometimes im surprised by the wild imagination some of you have. the funniest thing is that you completely ignore logical explanations, and you go full on crazy alien theory to doompost.
LMAO “all multiboxers” no. You clearly have no clue how people play lost ark, I can tell you, I have 6k hours in the game now. 20 chars on my main roster (server 1) and 4 gold making chars on the same account on another server (server 2). Some of my friends who only played 6 chars on their main rosters already have 2-3 alt rosters with chars making gold. Ofc SOME are new players, but I bet you it is a very small % and it is a higher chance that people now with sub 100 roster levels are just some sweatlord raiding for extra gold on alt roster/2nd account.
Just a heads up that it looks like at least on NAE the botters started making Destroyers. Seeing a half dozen of them in Shadow Tower I assume doing the Una’s Task. The names don’t look quite as random as before either, but they are obviously bots
you are not describing the average lost ark player.
how many people do that? 0.05% of the population?
so peple multiboxing are more than actual new players in the game.
if im a whiteknight what are you?
inhale that doomium.
do you honestly think a f2p game that’s in the top of steam charts wont attract new players who want to try it out? do you think every new player comes in here and sees people complain all day?
you are completely delusional if you think that the game doesnt have new players trying the game out.
You guys obviously did not do the Story Express (I don’t blame you) or it would have been clear bots never left.
I did story express the first week of Artist release, when the population was back at 50-60k.
It was literally 20 bots to every single player I would encounter. I posted about it while much of the community was gloating about bots being gone. My posts were quickly removed by staff. No truth telling!
The actual population numbers is somewhere around 25-40k. The bots never left they just restarted, many weeks ago, and used the Story Express to catch up in a day.
This post will be removed by staff less than an hour.
Because these takes “50% bots, they never left” are pure idiotic considering the bots, mass posting shards, and fish, guesting, honing, have been to a minimum the past 2 weeks or so, but if you don’t play the game and see whats happening it’s understandable.
So this went from 500k down to 260k. Big deal. Tons of bots remain.
The fun fact is…
I remember when new said, every game has bots. Guess what… the game still has bots and they’re slowly but surely come back in numbers.
Now… why is that? Because they found counter measurements. It’s an everlasting fight between publisher/developer and goldfarming companies. There’s no permanent solution to get rid of bots. WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT HE SAID MULTIPLE TIMES IN THE PAST. And it’s true.
I mean anyone with atleast a little bit of brain should know about this.
I doubt it’s 50% bots again at this point, but the percentage is slowly increasing again.