Player Statistics

[Tom]

Here's something I did today for the Facebook page, because I want to show people that BM is a game that really keeps people interested for years:

[Gustav Kuriga]

That might actually be a turn off, since it really shows that only a very small percentage actually stays past 1 year.

[vonGenf]

That might actually be a turn off, since it really shows that only a very small percentage actually stays past 1 year.

How many browser games do you think actually achieve a 50% 2-year retention? This is actually quite amazing.

[Gustav Kuriga]

How many browser games do you think actually achieve a 50% 2-year retention? This is actually quite amazing.

To someone who is knowledgeable of the statistics, sure, but for purely a public release, not so much.

[Eirikr]

I dunno, it's better than nothing.

[Wolfang]

The graphs mean little by themselves, as it could be that 10000000000 people played 11 years ago, or 50 people played, and are all still playing. Both would mean entirely different things.
Percentages would work better.

"30% of players that started playing 11 years ago are still playing"

[vonGenf]

The graphs mean little by themselves, as it could be that 10000000000 people played 11 years ago, or 50 people played, and are all still playing. Both would mean entirely different things.
Percentages would work better.

"30% of players that started playing 11 years ago are still playing"

I think the y-axis refers to number of current players.

[Lorgan]

Shush you all! I wonder if I get counted at 9 or 10 years at 9 years and 10 months...
And how many players are even older... :)

[loren]

The graphs mean little by themselves, as it could be that 10000000000 people played 11 years ago, or 50 people played, and are all still playing. Both would mean entirely different things.
Percentages would work better.

"30% of players that started playing 11 years ago are still playing"

Precisely.  It could also be that there was a large influx a year ago and those people are all still playing.

edit: I'm sure the data doesn't also include players who've come back and accounts were gone either.

[Revan]

Here's something I did today for the Facebook page, because I want to show people that BM is a game that really keeps people interested for years

Facebook wasn't even around when I started playing!

[Foundation]

Epic stats, Tom! :D

I wonder what happened 7 years ago... :P

[Miriam Ics]

The graphs mean little by themselves, as it could be that 10000000000 people played 11 years ago, or 50 people played, and are all still playing. Both would mean entirely different things.
Percentages would work better.

"30% of players that started playing 11 years ago are still playing"

What Wolfang said.
When I first saw the graphic first thought was that this is not good for BM image. % will work better than numbers.
Also, I would turn the graphic to show it increasing. Looks better.

[loren]

The percents will be very very low.  Even assuming even growth over the ~12 years we've had ~35,000 different accounts created.

So to put that into perspective we have 2.9k new accounts a year, in other words less than 8% in the past two years, and it just drops down from there (to if we're being generous for people in my class less than a fraction of a %).  If you mean percentage of the whole player base that's not what was originally said.

[egamma]

Epic stats, Tom! :D

I wonder what happened 7 years ago... :P

BM got Slashdotted. I was trying to find the article the other day, but couldn't find it.

[Chenier]

When I first saw the chart, I thought it was playerbase per year, showing a deep decline in the second year of the game and a steady downwards drop since. Of course, that wasn't it, but when I look at it, I still see decline more than anything, even if that's not at all what it means.