Well, didn't find an Off-Topic so I felt forced to post here... It's a tiny almost not important question. Anyway: How many member does XoO really have? As much as I love this community already, I doubt it really is 800+ as pormised in the recruitation thread. If this was/is a lie it's not a big deal, I've done this myself once. Why do I think it's less? Well, basically because a Community of 800+ people should be more active on a forum like this. I mean, 800+ and just 10-20~ active on the forum? I understand some may be away, on vacation, sleeping, busy with their real life or anything like that but still.. Just wondering though...!
What happened is that this isn't our old forums (they crashed and burned) and we got lax on policies regarding being forum active ;p So, most people are in their games or post more in their specific game section. There certainly isn't 800+ for the TERA division, but consider the 10 supported games plus all of our "Other" games that don't reach the requirements for supported status. All in all, we have far more lurkers and players than posters.
Well we have 2378 members on the forums. Of course removing inactives and one time sign-ups we probably have around 800. A lot of people jsut don't post because they don't see anything worthy to post in. Our old forums had a lot of people complaining about spam, pictures, etc so those who posted kept getting in trouble and just stopped. Lack of variety to post in is probably a big problem, someone always complains about something new. I guess everyone has something that's controversial to them.
We do have only 10 active members posting on the forums. It is a little sad, but I think our pool of total members probably adds up to around 800. Most of those 800 only log into the forums once a month or less, and game with us once in a while. Our forums were REALLY active 2 years ago. Since then a lot of the actives were banned or left.
The active members number goes up and down based on game releases (more recruiting) to around 700-900. Also, activity isn't really posting on the forums 24/7, just visiting. Also, many people tend to stick within their divisions and post in there. So in the public forums and outside of game divisions probably around 50 people post at least once every two days and if you expand that to within divisions probably 400. For the TERA division, this thread may help you get a better idea of the current memberbase we have for it.
Another example. Log on vent. How many users are currently on vent and how many people do you think are playing that haven't joined vent As I type this we currently have 78 members joined on vent. The high majority of people don't log onto vent unless they have a reason. So at a random guess we probably have around 150+ XoO members active on games at this given moment.
Yeah, seen the thread already. Well, just wondered since you know generally there are lots of people who rather prefer spaming all the day (just like I do, let it be a curse or a blessing). Although I'd expect more to be active at the same time, I don't really mind you know. What matters in the end is the feeling IG plus in Vent and when communicating with the guild/community in general.
Well people login at various times and many are, more or less, on vacation waiting for a game to release. But, yeah, ventrilo being required has gone down and I hope it will change in the near future. Hop in vent and join the Aion EU or BFBC2. Aion EU because you are German and BFBC2 because I am always in there. =P
I'll do this for sure and lately tomorrow. Asap actually when I manage to find my headset which is somewhere burried under crap I felt like not needing anymore
No one comes to the forums because of the stink that follows Kyoji everywhere. He's kinda like that Pigpen kid from Charlie Brown.