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crissindahouse on 18 January 2013
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pezus said:
crissindahouse said:
 

yes the numbers show only people who are at the same time in a multiplayer match, not those playing co-op, forging something, singleplayer, waiting for a match, playing custom matches, replay a game and so on...people play a lot of singleplayer for the challenges co-op was always beloved in halo as much as in borderlands or something.

i'm not saying that there aren't more people in dota 2 beta at the same time on average (dota 2 is very strong the whole day, halo 4 more when americans are online) but the differnce is way smaller as it looks like and since dota 2 matches take much longer maybe the unique players per day aren't really more in dota 2.

but the skyrim comparison just shows that halo 4 should have much more players (just talking about skyrim on steam)

But Dota 2 is a fair comparison though since it's almost exclusively MP matches, so you're comparing MP with MP.

no it's not fair because you were saying that dota 2 beta is more popular as whole halo 4 but you only use one mode of halo 4 and don't count all players who play halo 4 at the same time. people who play co-op with some friends can't play multiplayer at that moment and with that they aren't in the list even if they play halo 4 right now and if they love online matches. and dota 2 matches take much longer as halo 4 matches so players should be much longer in dota 2 per session which also increases the amount of players at the same time. then we have many people who have no xbox live gold so they can't even play online but still play halo 4.

but like i said, i don't even say halo 4 has more similiar players, just that it's not as your comparison looks like. and you said dota 2 isn't free anymore but you know that almost everyone got it for free. just ask all your steam friends who play it. even i got it for free and that only few weeks ago. and you have still 10 keys!