1.5 million HL Players Missing?

Posted by Blitz at 13:50 16/5/2002.

Edward Watson (CSports.net) has sent over some interesting info for you lot. According to a short report published over on their site, it seems that up to 1.5 million online players haven't returned to playing Half-Life online since the recent patch was released (24th April).

"A cursory look at the daily unique player plot since the update day seems to indicate that 16% of the Half Life community, or 1.5 million online players have been unable to or have decided not to download the new patches. Monthly data would suggest this number may be twice as large."

They estimate that, before the release, Half-Life had around 10 million online players. You'll find more info and graphical representation of the situation over on CSports.

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	Interstink 14:07 16/5/2002	I havent noticed anyone I know leaving, so must just be noobs or very casual players [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	shads theb0g 14:10 16/5/2002	hopefully its 1.5mill cheaters o/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Infiniti 15:45 16/5/2002	that would be nice =) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	photty 15:49 16/5/2002	1.5 mill gay cheaters sounds about right to meh. good riddance too [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Jim Bob 16:01 16/5/2002	I for one havent been playing since the new patch, 1. i have exams comming, 2. i bought DAoC, 3. cs is rather a frustating game [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	jim bob 16:02 16/5/2002	i know many other ppl who have stopped for similer reasons. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	decrepit Croydon 16:14 16/5/2002	yeh exams must have summut to do with it [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Myers Saviour of UKT UKTerrorist 16:37 16/5/2002	this from the same website that ranks X3 above NiP? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	-m0o.Rob- 17:00 16/5/2002	well it was hardly a f***ing walkover win was it myers [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DArtagnan Infinity-eSports 17:01 16/5/2002	This 1.5 million from around the whole world....you seem to be regarding it as just the uk community......look at the bigger picture. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DArtagnan Infinity-eSports 18:15 16/5/2002	and that's for all HL mods, not just CS. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	blank. 18:53 16/5/2002	Thats still quite alot of people to all simultaneously give up playing one product. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Ava3ar 19:28 16/5/2002	do they monitor steam, because they could all be on there [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Marcus calibre 20:11 16/5/2002	blank where u are :< [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	blank. 20:13 16/5/2002	dead [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	CyRus 21:41 16/5/2002	why is it cheats? iam sure there is a working ogc out? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	decrepit Croydon 21:47 16/5/2002	they were joking cyrus my swedish friend [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	-m0o.Rob- 22:47 16/5/2002	lol cyrus [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	iron 23:23 16/5/2002	/me pats cyrus [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Olric 13:12 17/5/2002	It also gives an indication on how many Half Life CDs have been sold...a HUGE number it seems, considering that you need a valid WONID to play on the net, so that there are not that many cracked versions being played online. Also, I think that a lot of people playing online with 56k modems will wait for the patches to appear on magazine's CDs instead of painstakingly download them at 3 Ko/s... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	decrepit Croydon 13:18 17/5/2002	u dont need a unique WONID [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	CyRus 09:08 18/5/2002	i feel a t**t now. bye.... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

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