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Pineapple said:


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
   

I'd like to point out that ioi stole 36.739 posts in December '09.
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=2963261
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http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3000000