2015-05-01, 02:48 AM
Justin Wrote:I... was even thinking this myself. They should have taken out the default faces, as those completely and utterly skew the statistics. Kind of a pointless thing to show otherwise....
Depends what they're trying to show, I guess?
Maybe it's not "top 5 most popular (i.e., liked) faces", but rather "top 5 most common faces (so if you want to be special you better change yours!)"
I agree their entire statistics page could have been better done. The "character levels" is misleading because it counts millions of characters abandoned since pre-bb, and millions more storage mules that nobody is trying to level up. If they showed only "active" characters (let's say, played at least 50 hours in the past year) the picture would be much different.
Similarly, the Puffram given out by Tot should not have been on the "most popular pet" table. I think if they only showed living pets, the top five would be much different (but skewed towards permanent pets).
Finally, 100 million accounts created worldwide. What exactly does that mean? Across all MS services? Why is that even relevant to GMS 10th anniversary? And if it's in GMS alone, and "worldwide" means including Australia etc, then wow. Compare 100m accounts with about 40m characters (in the level breakdown) and you see that at least 60m accounts have been banned (or abandoned without ever creating a character, but I doubt there are very many of those)... probably more, as active accounts almost always have more than one character on them.