Online players number - Steam vs NS2 site

SjN

Steam says it's 6k players
NS2 Site says 15k players

which one is full of shit?

Scorpion9908

i would like to say steam :P

Sops

Maybe steam is current players while NS2 is players over the last X hours?

Vetinari

Some hrs ago this site said it's 67000 players, so I doubt steam is wrong...

Martin7

Not sure, but 12k sounds more realistic to me than 60k

Gamerkatze

steam gives the the number of players who are currently playing while the page gives you something like "number of players in the past x hours"

MarZ

http://steamcharts.com/app/4920

This.

AceDude

Gah. Cory convinced me that there is a problem. I spent some time on analysis and it looks like Steam Master Server is reporting dead servers too... That caused my code to do stupid things. The numbers are 100% correct and up-to-date now. Refreshed every 10 minutes.

SjN

AceDude wrote: »

Gah. Cory convinced me that there is a problem. I spent some time on analysis and it looks like Steam Master Server is reporting dead servers too... That caused my code to do stupid things. The numbers are 100% correct and up-to-date now. Refreshed every 10 minutes.

Now it shows 2941 on ns2 site and 6442 on steam site.