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CYRiXplaysHalo / SpartanFinder

Code and data dump from SpartanFinder.com
https://spartanfinder.com/
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Site hasn't updated player counts in many days. #5

Open NoShotz opened 2 years ago

NoShotz commented 2 years ago

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Nighterlev commented 2 years ago

A major problem with the website is that it's population data for the Halo games on Xbox and PC were no longer accurate. Originally he used Gamestat for those numbers (Gamestat was far more reliable), but since Gamestat shut down, it's largely been a guessing game ever since.

nmjohnson commented 2 years ago

Eh that's not totally true. Gamstat was great for getting imprecise measurements across all console games. Like it would would help me differentiate between whether or not 50, 500, or 1000 people were playing halo 3 but Gamstat would literally say 0, 500, 1000, etc. So I combined that with a crawler I built that crawled a network of halo-oriented gamertags to try and get a more precise number.

Without it the numbers would be slightly undercounted and in rare cases, significantly undercounting. But for the major console games like MCC and Halo 5 those weren't dependent on gamstat.