Disparity between Steam stats and NS2 website

XipXip Join Date: 2013-07-02 Member: 185863Members, Reinforced - Supporter, WC 2013 - Supporter
edited January 2014 in NS2 General Discussion
The NS2 website says (as I write this) that 1,300-odd players are playing NS2. Yet the steam stats themselves (http://store.steampowered.com/stats/) suggest only 111 players are playing. Which is right? Why the disparity?
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  • Soul_RiderSoul_Rider Mod Bean Join Date: 2004-06-19 Member: 29388Members, Constellation, Squad Five Blue
    Looking in my server browser now and counting manually, I would have to say that the NS2 stats are correct. The top 5 servers are 40/40, 29/32, 27/30, 24/24. 24/24, that's already above steam estimate, and I counted 50 active servers before I got bored, so NS2 figure is definitely more accurate than steam..
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  • current1ycurrent1y Join Date: 2003-12-08 Member: 24150Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Shadow, Subnautica Playtester
    I generally look here for numbers - http://ns2-fr.com/?p=servers&i=0 looks like there was an issue with steam not too long ago going by the graph.
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  • lwflwf Join Date: 2006-11-03 Member: 58311Members, Constellation
    I believe the count on the NS2 site is or was known to be incorrect.
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  • RaZDaZRaZDaZ Join Date: 2012-11-05 Member: 167331Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    lwf wrote: »
    I believe the count on the NS2 site is or was known to be incorrect.

    Maybe it only counts people in a match rather than on the server browser, menu, etc?
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  • KamamuraKamamura Join Date: 2013-03-06 Member: 183736Members, Reinforced - Gold
    Just ignore the stats, the system is not functional, because it uses data from only fraction of servers/games.
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  • AsranielAsraniel Join Date: 2002-06-03 Member: 724Members, Playtest Lead, Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Playtester, Retired Community Developer
    Kamamura wrote: »
    Just ignore the stats, the system is not functional, because it uses data from only fraction of servers/games.

    You dont talk about the same stats. The uwe website should be right concerning total player count. At one point when bots where introduced it also counted bots as active players, thats why some people think it is wrong. But that problem has been corrected.
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