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Throne & Liberty testers murdered almost 30M NPCs during its open beta
If you wanted to kill someone in PvP during Throne & Liberty's open beta test, you were using a dagger. The most common builds...
Over 42,000 people played City of Heroes Homecoming in the last month
Last night, the City of Heroes Homecoming team posted some intriguing numbers on player operating systems that got speculation about the current playerbase size...
Massively Overthinking: Do you care more about MMO stats or looks?
This week's Massively Overthinking is fully inspired by the unicorn backpack meme, which Black Desert studio Pearl Abyss tweeted out last week with the caption "stats over looks any day." You know we have to talk about this.
Quantic Foundry’s survey examines the motivations of gamers drawn to sci-fi settings
Quantic Foundry - aka the Nick Yee-backed analytics company that's most well-known for its Gamer Motivation Model - has shared some responses from an...
Hunters lead the pack for deaths on World of Warcraft Classic’s hardcore realms
All right, how many of you found out the hard way that Feign Death turns into actual death if you don't interrupt it before...
New World publishes silly and bizarre statistics from 2022, including bunny deaths and cow milking
Did you think that the game wasn't watching when you fell flat on your face or got taken out by a level 2 sheep?...
The Daily Grind: How much do you trust player-based analyses of MMO playerbases?
There was a time when World of Warcraft would reliably tell press and players just how many people were playing the game at any...
Players waged over a thousand PvP wars during New World’s preview week
With New World's preview week in the rear view mirror, we're left with various impressions and a whole lot of data for the development...
The Daily Grind: Should MMO studios be more transparent about population stats?
Some of our staff were idly chatting about Wargaming's playerbase this week when MOP's Ben chimed in with a link to the official World...
City of Heroes Homecoming players have racked up over 47 million hours
You know the old adage that superheroes and statistics go together like... well, nothing? That is, unless you're a stat-themed crusader. Actuarial Man or...
EVE Evolved: EVE Online is losing players, and no one can agree on why
Nobody wants to think that a favourite MMO is losing popularity, but with EVE Online now being over 15 years old, it's a possibility...
City of Heroes Homecoming players have rolled almost a million toons to date
I've always said that if I could do one thing in video games - you know, besides what I already love and do -...
Path of Exile recaps the stats on challenge progression in the Legion league
Do you like statistics? Path of Exile has some statistics for you. Yes, players have been enjoying the latest league in the game for...
Path of Exile’s melee classes experience a surge of popularity in the Legion league
The third week of Path of Exile's Legion league has begun, and as is the custom, Grinding Gear Games has posted a new dev...
Path of Exile details the caster-heavy class breakdown in the Betrayal league
With every Path of Exile league, the designers take the time to dissect the overall balance of classes found throughout the game in various permutations,...
Guild Wars 2 pushes out underwater balance patch while players cross over 119,431 years /played
Just a heads up that Guild Wars 2 is putting out a small patch today to balance a few issues in the game: "Since...
Path of Exile’s Elementalist wins Incursion League popularity contest
Which classes are most popular in Path of Exile's Incursion League? Grinding Gear Games has released the stats for the first three weeks of...
EVE Fanfest 2018: CCP Games has big plans for data collection and machine learning
Every day in the sandbox of New Eden, several hundred thousand EVE Online players perform millions of unseen actions. Every item manufactured, module activated,...
Trove has passed 15 million players… and lots of other milestones
Congratulations are in order for Trove, which has passed 15 million players over the course of its lifespan. That's a lot of people logging...
OrbusVR passes 8,000 total players
Good news for OrbusVR: It might not be doing great numbers for "not a VR game," but it's doing very well for a game...
