| ishiki said: In order for that to show a better perspective. That might be a waste of time however. |
Good point! And It's not that hard to do. Shouldn't be much of a problem at all, actually. I'll have to use posts instead of threads, so it's not a perfect comparison, but this way it's really simple.
Let's start with your post. It's #4,485,530 on VGChartz as a whole. That's on the 26th on March.
Number 4 million was on the 11th of April 2011. That means going from 4 million to 4.5 million will have taken pretty much exactly a year.
Number 3.5 million was on the 23rd of June 2010. Meaning that it took 9 and a half month from 3.5 to 4 million.
Number 3 million was on the 28th December 2009. Thus, it took half a year from 3 to 4 million.
Number 2.5 million 18th of August 2009. Meaning that it took 5 and a half month from 2.5 to 4 million.
Number 2 million was on the 8th of April 2009, meaning it took 4 and a half month from 2 million to 2.5 million.
Number 1.5 million was on the 1st of December 2009. So a bit over 5 months from 1.5 to 2 million.
Number 1 million was on the 16th July 2008. So 6 and a half month from 1 to 1.5.
Number 0.5 million was on the 11th February 2008, meaning it took 5 months from 0.5 to 1 million.
In other words, there's been quite a drop just lately in the VGChartz popularity, but not a drop that coincides with the sales forum popularity. Most of the sales forum drop happens before 2010, while virtually all of the overall popularity happens after.
You definitely had a point though. Personally, I didn't at all expect VGChartz forum popularity to be as low as half of what it was during its peak.
Edit: To put that a bit better, here's a table form. Note that it's very rough, and the point is to give an indication, not for the number to be exact.
| Average posts per day | |
| First half of 2008 | 3200 |
| Second half of 2008 | 2500 |
| First quarter 2009 | 3300 |
| Second quarter 2009 | 3500 |
| Second half of 2009 | 3000 |
| First half of 2010 | 2700 |
| Second half of 2010 and first quarter of 2011 | 1666 |
| Second half of 2011 and first quarter of 2012 | 1400 |
