When we take the total number of player IDs (which is smaller than the number of unique IPs from which leaderboard entries came) and divide it by 1.15 (the average number of profiles per installation) the number of estimated unique installations drops by about 35% as compared to the estimate based on unique IPs. I'll not summarise, but paste their maths: It then completely nerds out to get the figures. on average, a player has 1.15 profiles per installation." given that the vast majority of player IDs are associated with only a single IP, this is a fairly accurate measure of how many profiles the average user created. "we also looked at how many players IDs were created (rather than used) from each IP address. Of course it will be pointed out that each game has room for three player IDs, and they took this into account too. So based on player names, 2D BOY discovered that there are 1.3 IP addresses per player - not the figures that many were spuriously claiming.ħ6% of players have contacted the server from 1 IP The majority of those whose IP rolls around with each connection would still be using the same player name. While it's true that a dynamic IP, or second installation, would appear as a unique user, that doesn't take into account the player IDs. In response to the vociferous arguments that dynamic IPs and multiple installations could be responsible for a lot of the 90% of registered IPs against sales, 2D BOY dug deeper. Now 2D BOY have responded with new look at the figures.
Others might suggest that fighting over the exact number is completely irrelevant, as that's not the point of the issue. Some could see this as people claiming there were far fewer stab wounds than first predicted and therefore there hadn't been a murder. It became a discussion about whether one could disprove the 90% figure, and then extrapolating this to reach peculiar conclusions. The P-word regularly generates comments threads that scare our hosts, but this one was odd. The post yesterday reporting World of Goo's 90% piracy figure drew a surprising response.
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