Another whining thread? Ugh, not another.

This isn't unique to SK. Check out just about any Steam game.

The stats were like that before free elevators. All those who gave it a try the past two years aren't magically coming back right now that elevators are free.

Batabii: Normally there used to be around a tops of 2k players in SK from Steam. It jumped up to almost 4k when the sprites came. I'm pretty positive there has been more than 4k players on Steam to simply TRY SK. Also, I'd be willing to bet the 2k added players were mostly returning players who already had these achiements. But there is also the fact that right now there has only been a tops of 3k, which means the update didn't interest 50% of the non-normal SK players.

Only about 66-67% made it to Rescue Camp. 1% have killed Vanaduke? Wow.

Well... today's statistics of players peaked up to 2.79k (2,790)players. That was the record since the battle sprite update.

Honestly, I've played my fair share of games and haven't even made it past the first 20 minutes. An example is Prototype. After those first few minutes I got bored and just never played it again. (luckly it was rented so)

Sonic Generations is another example, I finished that 100% and yet I see people who won't even pick-up after the first set of levels. Does that give me the right to harass them that they didn't "Try hard enough"?

Do some people like it? Yes. Does that give them the right to say I "didn't try"? Just because I didn't enjoy a game? Not really. If someone doesn't like something, you shouldn't push them and say they haven't even tried because they clearly took their time and luck into jumping into a single game out of every single other game just to give it a try. To take the plunge into something they're not used to and something they've never even tried. And honestly? That's trying in my book.

There's some other assumptions we can make from this data. Take for example the achievement "5-Star Smith" which ranks in at 1.3%. We could conclude that 1.3% of ALL STEAM accounts created for Spiral Knights are veteran players. Or we could use the "Go Deep" Achievement as a yard stick too.

So the First Steps achievement is at 67%... well the beauty of F2P games is that you can really try them out risk(and cost) free. Perhaps the other 33% created their characters, started playing, and decided right away that this wasn't for them, so they exited & never gave it a second thought. So their account languished.

these numbers you see on the Global Stats page have to be taken with a pinch of salt (proverbially, not the mission :P). The question of how many players free elevators will bring back is a much smaller percentage given the numbers we see here... Drops in the bucket so to speak.

But I can at least say that I'm part of the 0.1%.. heehee. my two cents.

I don't know if this is why, but it may contribute to it. Back when F2P games first came to Steam, it said many, many people had the games who didn't even know the games existed. I don't know if this issue was ever fixed, or whether it really contributes to the false stats, but it might affect it.

A lot of people don't care about achievements. That one in particular takes a couple hours & a fair amount of skill to get.

1/8th of the players who were serious enough about Spiral Knights to reach the core has gotten this achievement though (it's actually 0.14%, rounded down). That's a lot more than I'd have expected. The crazy part is how many people turned in 10,000 minerals. I'm surprised that ain't 0%!