"In other news, the world is still revolving around the sun."

omg, playtime of gaming online drops when kids go back to school?! Say it aint so!

Seriously, is this news?

Well, i find it an intresting trend, and enjoy hering about it, so yes, yes it is.

i can easily relate this to a business. my restaurant has its slowest months of Auguest and September. But now that october has come, business has picked up and we have waitlist almost constantly. Its just how the economy is.

This is easy... HALO 3

not really... considering this is for the month of September and Halo came out on sept 25. not quite enough to effect it that much.

but it IS easy to figure out since the reason really is because of school. and people like me who never bother to open their xfire anymore...

"the top ten FPS games played on Xfire, which all dropped across the board."

dont forget tf2 and quake wars

Reduced server strain, why complain?

Seriously, this isn't any news at all. It's always been like this. You could see playtime reducing 20 years ago after summer, too. And that was when people still played analog games like chess *giggles*

Oh well, but back to the thing itself... does XFire really matter? I mean, XFire doesn't smell like a thing for Joe and Jane Average. And if I do look around that for people with a job, playtime is roughly the same all over the year, because summer won't give you more or less spare time.

So I guess, the drop really only affects players that still go to school or students and not adults with a job.

yup, nothing new under the sun, we gamers app don't take that much holidays and just play more instead.

sounds familiar, i always play like double of normal in every holiday.

<quote>i can easily relate this to a business. my restaurant has its slowest months of Auguest and September. But now that october has come, business has picked up and we have waitlist almost constantly. Its just how the economy is.</quote>

quite different here. Restaurants and caffes are booming here during the summer cause of tourism

It's probably down because Xfire is still causing certain keys and mouse buttons to not work in game. I have to shut down Xfire every time I start playing so that I can use all of my mouse buttons.

XFire always minimizes my games when it gets disconnected.

Also, people have to go to school and college and do homework. So of course the time is going to drop quite a bit. Because most gamers are young.

If by young you mean ~26 sure.

http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/gateway_demographics.html

Yeah, i have the problem where Xfire doesn't let some keys work in game, which is really aggravating. So i've had it off for quite a while now.

I'd say this is because there are alot of other games being released at the time;

Halo 3 probably takes up alot of time for some, but biggest of all is the Orange Box containing Half Life 2 - Episode 2, Portal and Team Fortress 2. Next month, Crysis will be out, as well as Assassin's Creed.. I think these numbers might continue to drop until after new year.

oh don't get me started... Rock Band is releasing on Black Friday. talk about insane. i work in a GameStop and it's really going to suck that day >.>