Top Ten Games

[Babylon]

   Game/Mod   Servers(S)   Players(P)   P/S Ratio
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1   HL1:Counter-Strike   31901   94706   3.0
2   HL2:Cstrike   28960   36460   1.3
3   Wolfenstein:EnemyTerritory   3362   7969   2.4
4   Battlefield2   4262   6990   1.6
5   HL1:DayofDefeat   1176   6613   5.6
6   CallofDuty4:ModernWarfare   15470   6601   0.4
7   HL1:Counter-Strike:ConditionZero   3583   6336   1.8
8   UnrealTournament2004   1319   3170   2.4
9   HL2:dod   2288   3043   1.3
10   Battlefield2142   1426   2223   1.6
11   Quake3:Arena   2038   1991   1.0
12   EnemyTerritory:QuakeWars   618   1861   3.0
13   SoldierofFortune2   615   1353   2.2
14   CallofDuty   2084   1313   0.6
15   HL2:tf   1108   1244   1.1
16   CallofDuty2   2900   1075   0.4
17   HL1:TeamFortressClassic   241   995   4.1
18   NeverwinterNights   700   830   1.2
19   AmericasArmy:SpecialForces   1636   810   0.5
20   HL2:hl2mp   1083   747   0.7
21   StarWarsJediKnight:JediAcademy   570   739   1.3
22   HL1:Deathmatch   222   679   3.1
23   RedOrchestraOstfront   189   651   3.4
24   UnrealTournament   1716   612   0.4
25   MedalofHonorAlliedAssault   1109   567   0.5
26   Halo:CombatEvolved   683   515   0.8
27   Battlefield1942   581   451   0.8
28   HaloDemo   97   435   4.5
29   HL1:NaturalSelection   153   433   2.8
30   MedalofHonor:AlliedAssaultSpearhead   661   392   0.6
31   Crysis   336   340   1.0
32   FEAR:FirstEncounterAssaultRecon   450   332   0.7
33   HL1:Earth'sSpecialForces   71   297   4.2
34   SniperElite   66   283   4.3
35   LordoftheRings:TheBattleforMiddle-Earth2   89   277   3.1
36   SWAT4   263   268   1.0
37   BattlefieldModernCombat   74   253   3.4
38   NeverWinterNights2   153   205   1.3
39   UnrealTournament2003   68   204   3.0
40   JediKnightII:JediOutcast   96   197   2.1
41   ArmA   441   192   0.4
42   Gore   14   189   13.5
43   HaloMultiplayerExpansion   117   186   1.6
44   StarWarsBattlefront2   155   186   1.2
45   Battlefield2Demo   38   177   4.7
46   Vietcong   113   174   1.5
47   UnrealTournament3   840   172   0.2
48   FlatOut2   54   170   3.1
49   HL2:zps   60   81   1.4
50   HL1:SvenCo-op   57   53   0.9
51   HL2:ship   11   41   3.7
52   HL1:Gearbox   29   40   1.4
53   HL1:Dmc   28   38   1.4
54   HL2:ios   26   34   1.3
55   HL2:empires   28   32   1.1
56   HL2:mmdarkmessiah   37   31   0.8
57   HL2:KumaWar2MP   19   26   1.4

[Babylon]

List updated

[Belialspawn]

Whys Soldier of Fortune 2  10th and 40th ?   those stats seem fishy to me,  i call their bluff !

[Ultramarine]

whats the source of these stats?

[SHADY]

Whys Soldier of Fortune 2  10th and 40th ?   those stats seem fishy to me,  i call their bluff !

because loike BF 2 thar  are still DeMo servers out thar   thats just look loike ginger hamsters

[bRv]

whats the source of these stats?

www.madeupstats.com

[Babylon]

Its Gamespy's stats, by players.

I have updated the original list., and attached it in excel format as well which is easier to read.

I have also extracted the HALF LIFE sub sections and merged them with the main list, which shows how populAR Both hl1 and 2 mods are!

The list is sorted by most players, then by player/server ratio and then just name.

Why?
I wanted to know what the ratio of players to servers was.
More suprising than I thought, COD4 has an unreal low ratio of 0.4 players per server.
Compare that with other games with similar player numbers.

5   HL1:DayofDefeat_______________5.6
3   Wolfenstein:EnemyTerritory_______2.4
7   HL1:Counter-Strike:ConditionZero__1.8
4   Battlefield2____________________1.6
6   CallofDuty4:ModernWarfare________0.4

What this means is that you get a few servers with lots of players, and lots of servers with a few or players.

(THIS I BELIEVE IS A CURRENT SNAPSHOT OF PLAYERS - IE Midday on a thursday.)

Amazingly, Counterstrike for HL1 is still the top game. And HL2:CSS is close second. Between the two of them, they dominate the entire table, being about 5 times higher than the 2nd or 3rd place each... and 10 x between them (if you class them as effectively the same game!)

[wolverine]

but dont you have to have gamespy to be counted?

[Babylon]

but dont you have to have gamespy to be counted?

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Each server sends its info to a master server periodically, where it holds the information.
When you go to your ingame server browser, or go to gamespy or use their client or AllSeeing Eye etc tec...they poll these servers database and pull the information out, along with a quick pping from you tot hte servers IP.

A lot of games use the gamespy infrastructure to provide the in-game browser, which is nothing more than a gamspy client lite.
BF2 or GRAW (i think?!?!) used this, wheich meant you jhad to sign up to gamspy and get an id registered with them that was tied to your ingame account. This was becasue of the stats and unlock...thjey wanted to tie it down...but it also meant if you wanted to change your name, ytoud lose your unlock oprogress

These stats are drawn from that.