We were once told that the KDF totaled only 18% of the player base but has anyone looked around ingame lately? I see KDF ships everywhere now, sector space is generally full of them. I'm wondering if anyone has retallied the percentages.
I remember when this remark was made. I came on the forums and posted about it complaining. Roach or bitemepwe as you now know him said not to complain but to own it. I thought this a good idea and being a biker I thought it would be a great idea if Cryptic would make a 18%'er patch for those who had stuck it out on the red through it all, sort of like the bikers 1% patch. Of course it never happened.
But that brings up other considerations, we maybe only 18% but those who play the KDF are a consistent bunch loyal to the game. There are other numbers that are just as relevant like which side has the percentage of players who continue to play? Or how about those who have toons on both sides which side do the play the most? The obvious numbers are easy to quote but how about those that aren't as apparent?
The numbers are easy to quote but they say nothing really. They are actually a tad meaningless as it doesn't explain if that's more people who play kdf over fed, have KDF toons, how many paying players etc.
I think if you took the ratio of paying KDF players to paying Fed players to their entire population I believe you'd find some very interesting results. If my hypothesis is correct, I reckon there is a higher percentage of KDF players (against their overall population) putting money into this game than Feds, which might make Cryptic soil themselves a bit realizing they may have well and truly lost out in a chance for overall long term profit gain.
If anyone is confused by the maths, and how more KDF can have a higher percentage of paying customers I'll explain it below.
For example, fictional figures here.
There's 100,000 Fed players in game, but only 10,000 actually pay. That's 10% of Feds paying. If you look at KDF there's 10,000 in game and 5,000 are paying customers. That's 50% of KDF paying.
In short term you are going to get more money off Feds, however in the long term and especially if you managed to increase the KDF population just by slightly over double, you'll start to see them becoming more profitable than feds as they have a higher ratio of people paying.
So in conclusion, without seeing full and descriptive analysis of the player base, you can't say that the 18% of a player base don't deserve attention when they could be more profitable than the 72%.
I think if you took the ratio of paying KDF players to paying Fed players to their entire population I believe you'd find some very interesting results. If my hypothesis is correct, I reckon there is a higher percentage of KDF players (against their overall population) putting money into this game than Feds, which might make Cryptic soil themselves a bit realizing they may have well and truly lost out in a chance for overall long term profit gain.
Given that this is perhaps the second most trivial statistic with regard to player profitability out there, do you really think they haven't considered it?
They probley tally in inactive players as well who made a Fed and let it collect dust after they started playing another F2P game.
When the game first started the KDF where the PVP faction. We all see how that worked out. Due to the number of Fed ships the Pvp players all went Fed. The KDF has been lying dormant for some time now, waiting.
But that brings up other considerations, we maybe only 18% but those who play the KDF are a consistent bunch loyal to the game.
This is how it most likely works.
Crytpic/PWE have metrics, of how many players are playing what side.
How many ships are purchased of what faction and at what tier.
Those metrics are looked at, and then the amount of artist and developer time that must be invested ($$$ spent) is weighed against the potential return on that investment.
They also probably look at past sales history for trends at what might be a better sale.
And then a business decision is made, and a project is given a green light.
If there was money to be made KDF side right now by making new KDF ships with new art - they would be making KDF ships with new art.
This is not a company that is avoiding trying to make a profit.
On the other hand, they are clearly risk averse (as most companies are), and they are not taking chances on long shots with low payout potential.
So in order to alleviate this, we get cross faction content, cross faction lockbox ships, cross faction lobi items, cross faction (cloned) doffs with the same powers.
This is content sold to the player base as a whole, and doesn't require taking an inordinate risk on any particular project.
Considering the oft-quoted 18% number is almost 2 years old and there's been a few developments like free to play (January 17, 2012) there's obviously a lot more KDF players.
For what it's worth, DStahl did say 16% in June 2012 with Priority One #55, but I doubt he had the numbers in front of him when he said it (and as we are only human, he has been known to make several numerical errors when talking without the aid of the data in front of him.
I for one would love to get some updated stats for 2013.
I would love updated stats, and I would like some idea what the methodology is. Are these stats collected by the game, or is it purely a superficial 'head count' that doesn't take into account dilithium-mining alts? Stuff like that. Settle this damned question once and for all.
I'm willing to accept that there are less KDF players in the game. My interaction with the game seems to support this, including in PvP. But I'm not willing to accept that it's as low as 18%. . .maybe closer to 30-35%.
My PvP toon is Krov, of The House of Snoo. Beware of my Hegh'ta of doom.
But I'm not willing to accept that it's as low as 18%. . .maybe closer to 30-35%.
No one said you had to. As mentioned before, those numbers are two years old. No point whatsoever to bring them up or use them as a reference. You don't go around telling people you can't believe a brand-new Corvette only costs $3.500, because you read it in an old catalogue...
Furthermore, Cryptic would simply be stupid to release exact and detailed numbers and statistics about their playerbase and reveal their method of data collection, simply because an angry, 1-person forum mob demands it. Doing so would just make their competitors very, very happy.
Furthermore, Cryptic would simply be stupid to release exact and detailed numbers and statistics about their playerbase and reveal their method of data collection, simply because an angry, 1-person forum mob demands it. Doing so would just make their competitors very, very happy.
Percentages don't matter as much as the raw number of actual Klingon captains. Don't forget that the game pop has grown twofold, if not more, since F2p, so an 18% today could correspond to a hell of lot more players than the 18% did a few years ago.
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Given that this is perhaps the second most trivial statistic with regard to player profitability out there, do you really think they haven't considered it?
It's not that they haven't considered it. It's just incompetence.
I'll lay it out real simple.
They release STO as a 2-faction game with 1 being woefully unfinished. For the entire history of STO being live, they have never made the two factions equal in ground/space options, uniforms, nor even faction unique storylines. For 3 years, the KDF, having received some attention, are still nowhere near the same ballpark as the Federation.
They release a 2-faction game and never made it a truly 2-faction game. With the Romulans in a few months, the poor fools can't even fight together as Romulans, but instead will be blowing each other up as proxies to their rivals. The Romulans will be in the end, sort of in a worse state than the KDF were when STO released. The Romulans aren't an independent faction like the KDF is. They will be a subfaction to both the Federation and Klingons.
Sure I hate the fact we have been screwed.. even the Bortasqu' was just a folating pile of junk compared to the oddyssey.
But this 18% thing... being circumstances what they are might be accurate. I mean think about it... Queues are NEVER open... FEDs get INSTANT pvp and Queues, KDF NEVER has any map w/ more than 5 KDF.... First City and Academy has maybe 1..2..3 instances? FEDs have 30+ intances for BOTH?
KDF lags less. FED lag more... probally cuase of players
But seriously I cant really say. I never go on FEDs and I even deleted my lvl 25 fed cause I hated it.... and therefore though I could have 2 KDFs.. (Wrong lol) so now I have 1 FED (8) and 5 KDF Captians (21) (23) (50)x3. So idk if true but they really should not use size as an excuse... cause they do that YET forget the matter "WHY"
WHY=Content+Nothing=Less People?
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18% of those who exclusively play the KDF perhaps but I bet he isn't counting those who play both factions equally or regularly.
But I agree 18% is outdated and needs a revise, but why put more development if it is only 18%? I think the number % is a road of rubbish, Cryptic's game industry own politics at work.
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This is like Christmas at my in-laws. No one is happy. There is a new thread about how the Feds aren't getting anything with the release of LoR.
I'm with Roach - own it.
Also, realize that every time Cryptic adds something to the game, it benefits all players in some form or fashion.
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Crytpic/PWE have metrics, of how many players are playing what side.
How many ships are purchased of what faction and at what tier.
Those metrics are looked at, and then the amount of artist and developer time that must be invested ($$$ spent) is weighed against the potential return on that investment.
They also probably look at past sales history for trends at what might be a better sale.
And then a business decision is made, and a project is given a green light.
If there was money to be made KDF side right now by making new KDF ships with new art - they would be making KDF ships with new art.
This is not a company that is avoiding trying to make a profit.
On the other hand, they are clearly risk averse (as most companies are), and they are not taking chances on long shots with low payout potential.
So in order to alleviate this, we get cross faction content, cross faction lockbox ships, cross faction lobi items, cross faction (cloned) doffs with the same powers.
This is content sold to the player base as a whole, and doesn't require taking an inordinate risk on any particular project.
This is what business is all about.
Creating new content is time consuming and cost a lot of money (you need scripts, art, and programmer's time) What is the pay out? what is the return?
Lockboxes (cross faction) is easier to churn out and make money (notice a large amount of zen being bought and sold)
The Romulan expansion is a hope to infuse more players, but to play it safe this new faction can be its own faction, Klingon OR feds.
If there WERE more KDF players, we would see more KDF ships and equipment.
My intentions weren't to start a feud here. I was curious if anyone had heard of any new quotes on percentages because it seems, I stress seems, that there are more on the KDF side than what there used to be.
If this is the case then it indicates that with more to do over on the red side that it has attracted more people which is a good thing, both for Cryptic and the KDF fan base.
I don't like dredging up old arguments but there were a couple posts on here that beg for a reply. 1st off the KDF has been hamstrung from the get go so any numbers they can quote are illegitimate because you can't really gauge how well that faction will do compared to another faction who has plenty of content. Content makes the faction, it's the key to how well it will be received and dictates how many players it will have. If you reversed the roles/situations of both factions in this game does anyone truly believe the blue side would be in any better shape?
Secondly if the folks who play the KDF show a trend of staying with that faction and continuing to play it then it says the KDF is worth investing in. Because retention is just as important as overall numbers.
Thirdly a straight head count doesn't factor in all the variables such as retention, time spent on faction, etc. So the percentage doesn't prove anything especially when one faction has been hobbled while the other has been encouraged to grow with loads of content and is a gateway for creating a character on the other side. Hopefully this new season will remove the rope tying the KDF's legs together.
And lastly let's take Roach's advise and just own the moniker and be proud to be the 12, 16, 18 or whatever percentage that plays the KDF.
The only thing that counts is sales - so if you don't have every KDF ship - in the next sale pick up 3 or 5.
Those are the only metrics they care about.
As it goes they(so far) are backward looking - rather than put out a really good new C-store ship and see how it sells - they wait to see how many more of the existing ships sell - then use that lack of sales to justify the waiting on putting out a new ship.
As it goes they(so far) are backward looking - rather than put out a really good new C-store ship and see how it sells - they wait to see how many more of the existing ships sell - then use that lack of sales to justify the waiting on putting out a new ship.
In all fairness, since FTP began they have sales numbers for all lower-tier KDF ships that were added into the C-Store, they have numbers for the Borts, and they have the numbers for KDF Fleet ships - as well as numbers for KDF Lockbox ships. They don't need to look backwards. The sales figures are presented to them every single week.
STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
In all fairness, since FTP began they have sales numbers for all lower-tier KDF ships that were added into the C-Store, they have numbers for the Borts, and they have the numbers for KDF Fleet ships - as well as numbers for KDF Lockbox ships. They don't need to look backwards. The sales figures are presented to them every single week.
I ment - rather that look forward and build something good and take another chance on a sales hit/bomb - they look backward at the sales data from the past.
I ment - rather that look forward and build something good and take another chance on a sales hit/bomb - they look backward at the sales data from the past.
And what I meant was there is no past in an MMO. Players come, players go. Each week someone buys something for the first time - be it a KDF player or a Fed player. Right this moment some KDF player is buying his first Bort while some Fed player is buying his first Oddy. It's a never ending process. Every week Cryptic gets new sales figures, and every week it tells them how much X was sold compared to Y.
The past numbers are good to have, but they also have the current numbers.
STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
And what I meant was there is no past in an MMO. Players come, players go. Each week someone buys something for the first time - be it a KDF player or a Fed player. Right this moment some KDF player is buying his first Bort while some Fed player is buying his first Oddy. It's a never ending process. Every week Cryptic gets new sales figures, and every week it tells them how much X was sold compared to Y.
The past numbers are good to have, but they also have the current numbers.
I think the pop of KDF players/turnover is much more static on a % basis than the Fed side. I would believe that more KDF players stick it out.
Also there is a very limited selection of end game c-store ships.
I think the pop of KDF players/turnover is much more static on a % basis than the Fed side. I would believe that more KDF players stick it out.
I would think the exact opposite. Players trying KDF will often become quickly bored with the grind and turn to something else.
Also there is a very limited selection of end game c-store ships.
The Bort is over 13 months old now.
The age doesn't matter. Every week new players come and old players go. What's old news to you is brand new to someone just starting.
STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
well we all know that the game is making a move toward almost all lock-box ships anyways.
It seems to me C-Store and Fleet ships are still quite the draw. I mean, if people aren't wanting those Fleet ships why are they busting their butts to get the base tiers up?
STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
It seems to me C-Store and Fleet ships are still quite the draw. I mean, if people aren't wanting those Fleet ships why are they busting their butts to get the base tiers up?
Well I am not holding my breathe on an more KDF c-store ships.
Despite all of us doomers on the forums - I really don't think it horribly bad on the KDF side.
DStahl's been pretty consistent in the numbers he gives for the KDF. It's always been under 20%. Be it 18, 16 or 12, it's always a very small fraction of the playerbase. That won't change. Crytpic has its metrics and they tell Cryptic that the number is in that ballpark.
Well I am not holding my breathe on an more KDF c-store ships.
Since the KDF are starting at level 1 I wouldn't be surprised to see a new T1 and T2 ships added to the C-Store - with consoles, much like the Feds have. As far as end-game ships, I'm guessing Cryptic will stick with Fleet ships for the KDF, but never say never.
STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
I've never seen a tad ounce of actual viewable truth in the 18% tally.
Only places where I see the Federation outnumber the Empire is in:
A) Deep Space Nine. New Romulus.
Everywhere else appears pretty square even, except the explorable
sectors, where I often strangely see more Defense Force members.
Honestly, I wouldn't say Cryptic doesn't give us content because of
some low population bullcrap. Actually I'd be more inclined to say it's
simply more profitable for them to invest in Starfleet because of there
being more paying customers on that side. As I gather by store updates.
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I think if you took the ratio of paying KDF players to paying Fed players to their entire population I believe you'd find some very interesting results. If my hypothesis is correct, I reckon there is a higher percentage of KDF players (against their overall population) putting money into this game than Feds, which might make Cryptic soil themselves a bit realizing they may have well and truly lost out in a chance for overall long term profit gain.
If anyone is confused by the maths, and how more KDF can have a higher percentage of paying customers I'll explain it below.
For example, fictional figures here.
There's 100,000 Fed players in game, but only 10,000 actually pay. That's 10% of Feds paying. If you look at KDF there's 10,000 in game and 5,000 are paying customers. That's 50% of KDF paying.
In short term you are going to get more money off Feds, however in the long term and especially if you managed to increase the KDF population just by slightly over double, you'll start to see them becoming more profitable than feds as they have a higher ratio of people paying.
So in conclusion, without seeing full and descriptive analysis of the player base, you can't say that the 18% of a player base don't deserve attention when they could be more profitable than the 72%.
What Cryptic should consider before releasing anything.
When the game first started the KDF where the PVP faction. We all see how that worked out. Due to the number of Fed ships the Pvp players all went Fed. The KDF has been lying dormant for some time now, waiting.
Sector space is also even more full of feds than it was.
Neither tells us anything.
This is how it most likely works.
Crytpic/PWE have metrics, of how many players are playing what side.
How many ships are purchased of what faction and at what tier.
Those metrics are looked at, and then the amount of artist and developer time that must be invested ($$$ spent) is weighed against the potential return on that investment.
They also probably look at past sales history for trends at what might be a better sale.
And then a business decision is made, and a project is given a green light.
If there was money to be made KDF side right now by making new KDF ships with new art - they would be making KDF ships with new art.
This is not a company that is avoiding trying to make a profit.
On the other hand, they are clearly risk averse (as most companies are), and they are not taking chances on long shots with low payout potential.
So in order to alleviate this, we get cross faction content, cross faction lockbox ships, cross faction lobi items, cross faction (cloned) doffs with the same powers.
This is content sold to the player base as a whole, and doesn't require taking an inordinate risk on any particular project.
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January 7, 2011 - DStahl says KDF is 12%
July 28, 2011 - Devs state KDF is 18%
Considering the oft-quoted 18% number is almost 2 years old and there's been a few developments like free to play (January 17, 2012) there's obviously a lot more KDF players.
For what it's worth, DStahl did say 16% in June 2012 with Priority One #55, but I doubt he had the numbers in front of him when he said it (and as we are only human, he has been known to make several numerical errors when talking without the aid of the data in front of him.
I for one would love to get some updated stats for 2013.
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I'm willing to accept that there are less KDF players in the game. My interaction with the game seems to support this, including in PvP. But I'm not willing to accept that it's as low as 18%. . .maybe closer to 30-35%.
No one said you had to. As mentioned before, those numbers are two years old. No point whatsoever to bring them up or use them as a reference. You don't go around telling people you can't believe a brand-new Corvette only costs $3.500, because you read it in an old catalogue...
Furthermore, Cryptic would simply be stupid to release exact and detailed numbers and statistics about their playerbase and reveal their method of data collection, simply because an angry, 1-person forum mob demands it. Doing so would just make their competitors very, very happy.
Cause that'd be madness!
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It's not that they haven't considered it. It's just incompetence.
I'll lay it out real simple.
They release STO as a 2-faction game with 1 being woefully unfinished. For the entire history of STO being live, they have never made the two factions equal in ground/space options, uniforms, nor even faction unique storylines. For 3 years, the KDF, having received some attention, are still nowhere near the same ballpark as the Federation.
They release a 2-faction game and never made it a truly 2-faction game. With the Romulans in a few months, the poor fools can't even fight together as Romulans, but instead will be blowing each other up as proxies to their rivals. The Romulans will be in the end, sort of in a worse state than the KDF were when STO released. The Romulans aren't an independent faction like the KDF is. They will be a subfaction to both the Federation and Klingons.
Sure I hate the fact we have been screwed.. even the Bortasqu' was just a folating pile of junk compared to the oddyssey.
But this 18% thing... being circumstances what they are might be accurate. I mean think about it... Queues are NEVER open... FEDs get INSTANT pvp and Queues, KDF NEVER has any map w/ more than 5 KDF.... First City and Academy has maybe 1..2..3 instances? FEDs have 30+ intances for BOTH?
KDF lags less. FED lag more... probally cuase of players
But seriously I cant really say. I never go on FEDs and I even deleted my lvl 25 fed cause I hated it.... and therefore though I could have 2 KDFs.. (Wrong lol) so now I have 1 FED (8) and 5 KDF Captians (21) (23) (50)x3. So idk if true but they really should not use size as an excuse... cause they do that YET forget the matter "WHY"
WHY=Content+Nothing=Less People?
But I agree 18% is outdated and needs a revise, but why put more development if it is only 18%? I think the number % is a road of rubbish, Cryptic's game industry own politics at work.
I'm with Roach - own it.
Also, realize that every time Cryptic adds something to the game, it benefits all players in some form or fashion.
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This is what business is all about.
Creating new content is time consuming and cost a lot of money (you need scripts, art, and programmer's time) What is the pay out? what is the return?
Lockboxes (cross faction) is easier to churn out and make money (notice a large amount of zen being bought and sold)
The Romulan expansion is a hope to infuse more players, but to play it safe this new faction can be its own faction, Klingon OR feds.
If there WERE more KDF players, we would see more KDF ships and equipment.
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If this is the case then it indicates that with more to do over on the red side that it has attracted more people which is a good thing, both for Cryptic and the KDF fan base.
I don't like dredging up old arguments but there were a couple posts on here that beg for a reply. 1st off the KDF has been hamstrung from the get go so any numbers they can quote are illegitimate because you can't really gauge how well that faction will do compared to another faction who has plenty of content. Content makes the faction, it's the key to how well it will be received and dictates how many players it will have. If you reversed the roles/situations of both factions in this game does anyone truly believe the blue side would be in any better shape?
Secondly if the folks who play the KDF show a trend of staying with that faction and continuing to play it then it says the KDF is worth investing in. Because retention is just as important as overall numbers.
Thirdly a straight head count doesn't factor in all the variables such as retention, time spent on faction, etc. So the percentage doesn't prove anything especially when one faction has been hobbled while the other has been encouraged to grow with loads of content and is a gateway for creating a character on the other side. Hopefully this new season will remove the rope tying the KDF's legs together.
And lastly let's take Roach's advise and just own the moniker and be proud to be the 12, 16, 18 or whatever percentage that plays the KDF.
Those are the only metrics they care about.
As it goes they(so far) are backward looking - rather than put out a really good new C-store ship and see how it sells - they wait to see how many more of the existing ships sell - then use that lack of sales to justify the waiting on putting out a new ship.
And the cycle continues.
I ment - rather that look forward and build something good and take another chance on a sales hit/bomb - they look backward at the sales data from the past.
The past numbers are good to have, but they also have the current numbers.
I think the pop of KDF players/turnover is much more static on a % basis than the Fed side. I would believe that more KDF players stick it out.
Also there is a very limited selection of end game c-store ships.
The Bort is over 13 months old now.
The age doesn't matter. Every week new players come and old players go. What's old news to you is brand new to someone just starting.
Well I am not holding my breathe on an more KDF c-store ships.
Despite all of us doomers on the forums - I really don't think it horribly bad on the KDF side.
Only places where I see the Federation outnumber the Empire is in:
A) Deep Space Nine.
Everywhere else appears pretty square even, except the explorable
sectors, where I often strangely see more Defense Force members.
Honestly, I wouldn't say Cryptic doesn't give us content because of
some low population bullcrap. Actually I'd be more inclined to say it's
simply more profitable for them to invest in Starfleet because of there
being more paying customers on that side. As I gather by store updates.
:rolleyes: