Daveshiny

Hi,

Just wondered if anyone knew if there's a website which tracks how many
people are playing individual games on Live?

thanks

Mike Brannigan

"Daveshiny" <davidsimmons2@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Just wondered if anyone knew if there's a website which tracks how many
> people are playing individual games on Live?
>
> thanks

No - since the games are not played on Live. Xbox online gaming is peer to
peer, Live is only and intermediary used for the lobby functionality and
matchmaking as well as score boarding. Once a game is joined by the players
they are playing on a game hosted on one of the machines
--
Mike

F.H. Muffman

>> Just wondered if anyone knew if there's a website which tracks how
>> many people are playing individual games on Live?
>>
> No - since the games are not played on Live. Xbox online gaming is peer to
> peer, Live is only and intermediary used for the lobby functionality and
> matchmaking as well as score boarding. Once a game is joined by the
> players they are playing on a game hosted on one of the machines

Ah, but, when I'm signed into live, people *can* see what I'm playing, ergo,
even tho I'm not playing *ON* live, Live is in fact aware of what I'm playing.

In fact, I think you'd find that Major Nelson's list of LIVE Activity is
not all *online* play, but all people logged into Live playing the game.

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-f.h.

JBDragon

"F.H. Muffman" <f.h.muffman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>>> Just wondered if anyone knew if there's a website which tracks how
>>> many people are playing individual games on Live?
>>>
>> No - since the games are not played on Live. Xbox online gaming is peer
>> to
>> peer, Live is only and intermediary used for the lobby functionality and
>> matchmaking as well as score boarding. Once a game is joined by the
>> players they are playing on a game hosted on one of the machines
>
> Ah, but, when I'm signed into live, people *can* see what I'm playing,
> ergo, even tho I'm not playing *ON* live, Live is in fact aware of what
> I'm playing.
>
> In fact, I think you'd find that Major Nelson's list of LIVE Activity is
> not all *online* play, but all people logged into Live playing the game.
>
> --
> -f.h.
>

I would think your connected to LIVE pretty much all the time in one way or
another! Otherwise how would you get messages of your friends logging onto
LIVE in the middle of a game for example? There's no way to get this Info
though, and MS doesn't really post it. Major Nelson will post the Top 10
games played online for the week, etc, and once in a while MS will post a
updated number of how many people have signed up to LIVE. I wouldn't count
on MS posting that type of info let alone some other place.

F.H. Muffman

>>>> Just wondered if anyone knew if there's a website which tracks how
>>>> many people are playing individual games on Live?
>>>>
>>> No - since the games are not played on Live. Xbox online gaming is
>>> peer to
>>> peer, Live is only and intermediary used for the lobby functionality
>>> and matchmaking as well as score boarding. Once a game is joined by the
>>> players they are playing on a game hosted on one of the machines
>> Ah, but, when I'm signed into live, people *can* see what I'm
>> playing, ergo, even tho I'm not playing *ON* live, Live is in fact
>> aware of what I'm playing.
>>
>> In fact, I think you'd find that Major Nelson's list of LIVE Activity
>> is not all *online* play, but all people logged into Live playing the
>> game.
>>
> I would think your connected to LIVE pretty much all the time in one
> way or another! Otherwise how would you get messages of your friends
> logging onto LIVE in the middle of a game for example?

One doesn't have to log into Live to play tho. I was merely pointing out
where Mike was mistaken.

> There's no way
> to get this Info though, and MS doesn't really post it. Major Nelson
> will post the Top 10 games played online for the week, etc, and once
> in a while MS will post a updated number of how many people have
> signed up to LIVE. I wouldn't count on MS posting that type of info
> let alone some other place.

MS, no. Some publishers might specifically for their games. Someone can
be right and entirely wrong at the same time. I just wanted to correct the
wrong part =)

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-f.h.