OT xx,xxx players on x,xxx tables

[tigerite]

Programmers are lazy, yep. But in this case, that makes the latter more likely - they already have to look through each table in the database to find out that count - far easier to get the count of players on that table and do a sum I'd have thought, two birds with one stone. Especially if it's just a database query.

[Freudian]

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From a programming point of view, I would say it's likelier that it's the number of connected sessions to their servers than the number of occupied seats.

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From a marketing point of view, I would say it is much more likely to be the one that gives the highest player count.

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programmers are lazy

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While true, it isn't very advanced programming to count a seat as a player. Furthermore, I doubt this would be left up to the programmers to decide, but a management decision.

[bluefeet]

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programmers are lazy

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i prefer to think i am apathetic

[durron597]

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programmers are lazy

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i prefer to think i am apathetic

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i'm definitely lazy

[stupidsucker]

From a marketing point of view, I would say it is much more likely to be the one that gives the highest player count.

Bingo.

So based on this thread . . . no one really knows?

I think the number is not individual, but rather a count of pixel players. From a marketing and programming point of view I think that counting the tables and the tally (which they already do) would be the easiest and most effective way. If they don't do it that way I would be surprised.

Thanks for the input...

[Big Limpin']

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During the last two months, new-player signups have averaged 2,455 a day, and PartyGaming remains confident that it will achieve its goal of signing up 800,000 players this year.

The number of unique active players increased from 443,000 in September to 487,000 in November and the daily average number of players increased from 131,000 in the third quarter to 138,000 the last two months.

PartyGaming will release its full fourth quarter report at the end of January.

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Bolded the important part. I think 180k over hte whole day is in line with primetime having ~60k distinct players, not player-tables.

It says x amount of tables are open and they have y amount of seats occupied in them. I say definition 2