TA Gaming Stats - July 30th to August 5th 2012

TA Gaming Stats - July 30th to August 5th 2012

Latest weekly game and achievement stats for TA members

Written by Dog of Thunder on 12 August 12 at 20:51

Another week, another Summer of Arcade title provides astronomical numbers. Outside of that however, I've got nothing.

This report is for the period July 30th to August 5th 2012.

Games Started
17,386 TrueAchievements gamers started a total of 26,506 games between them (1,638 different games).

Risen 2: Dark Waters makes a surprising appearance at the top of the chart thanks to an European release. It's not setting the sales chart on fire or anything according to the TA Community, but it's still a good boost. London 2012: The Official Video Game gets a boost from some sort of event that took place over the last two weeks.

Beyond those two titles, every other entry on this chart is an old standby and we desperately need some fresh retail blood.

Top Retail Games Started

Deadlight debuted better then I expected and it has added an additional 1k gamers that will show under next week's stats. The gap from Deadlight to Spelunky is of course, substantial to say the least.

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition is slowing down enough that it likely won't break 40k any time soon. With 37k users on TA alone however, that is not a bad number for a $20 XBLA title. Trials Evolution also is showing signs of dramatic slowdown, meaning that soon we may have a chart without the two of them.

The Walking Dead on the other hand, is here to stay.

Top Arcade Games Started

Need for Speed: Undercover (WP) was on sale and that pushed it up to the very top of the chart. Pool Pro Online 3 (WP) and Asphalt 5 (WP) continue the trend from July of WP titles that are disappointing.

Top Windows Phone Games Started

Games Completed
6,924 TrueAchievements gamers completed a total of 10,102 games between them (1,231 different games).

Still the same line up of games as last week with nothing new or interesting to discuss yet again. Wait a minute....what's this?

Left 4 Dead 2 has no new achievements, only a new piece of DLC, and yet here it is! In the middle of the chart no less! Well that's different.

Top Retail Games Completed

Deadlight is a really quick completion. It's easy too, as even I have finished it though my completion will count for next week's chart. Kudos to those brave souls whom grinded out Full House Poker and did not use a turbo controller.

Congrats as well to those brave few whom finished Trials Evolution. Those that finished Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD should be punched in the head. So says the old guy incapable of even unlocking the Downhill Jam stage.

Top Arcade Games Completed

Gun Bros (WP) is slowly being completed while the interestingly named duo of Doodle God (WP) and MonstaFish (WP) happened to tie with 19 completions each.

Top Windows Phone Games Completed

Achievements Won
46,315 TrueAchievements gamers won a total of 595,272 achievements online between them (48,546 different achievements).

More "Dawnguard" DLC achievements, a multiplayer achievement from the "Close Quarters" DLC for Battlefield 3 and well, Batman from Batman: Arkham City.

Just one more week before this list will start to get split between multiple fresh retail titles vying for dominance.

Top Retail Achievements Won

I love 80's music. Don't know why I felt the need to mention that now, but for some odd reason, I felt the need to express my love for Hair Metal in particular.

Top Arcade Achievements Won

The dominance of a game on sale over the latest release is now complete.

Top Windows Phone Achievements Won

Total TrueAchievements won by Genre

Action-Adventure will remain on top for the rest of August, with both Sleeping Dogs and Darksiders II representing the genre. Initial press on both of those titles seems to be....well...we'll know in just two days when embargoes are up, but something tells me each will be popular with our community.

  • Action-Adventure4,299,544
  • Shooter4,249,073
  • Role-Playing2,408,944
  • Sports1,802,014
  • Action1,659,497
  • Platformer1,106,137
  • Racing937,047
  • Music & Rhythm348,826
  • Simulation333,633
  • Puzzle267,555


Join me next week when I spend the entire column mocking Hybrid for the worst XBLA launch in the history of the civilized world.
AuthorMessage
Hey Retto
129,762
Hey Retto - I can't wait for Dark Souls 2!!!
129,762  TrueAchievements pointsAchievement Completion Percentage: 54.07% (Includes owned DLC) - 70 more achievements required to reach 55%229 posts
Last post: 19 Apr at 16:46
Posted on 12 August 12 at 20:58
Still have to get that Skyrim DLC.
Retto
ViagraFish
212,274
ViagraFish - We didn't listen!
212,274  TrueAchievements points1,163 posts
Last post: 17 May at 14:12
Posted on 12 August 12 at 21:00
Skyrim is still rocking it.
When Gotham is ashes, you have my permission to die.
Thrifty SiMON
107,241
Thrifty SiMON - Benn having a great in the states performing with HMKG. We are performing at the Virginia International Tattoo tonight:D
107,241  TrueAchievements points66 completed games(Includes owned DLC)94 posts
Last post: 05 Apr at 11:44
Posted on 12 August 12 at 21:01, Edited on 12 August 12 at 21:26 by Thrifty SiMON
The reason Left 4 Dead 2 has suddenly appeared on the chart is the recently released patch that makes it possible to play any mutation at any time. It seems there were quite a few players that only needed those last 6 mutations played for the 100% completion, and those were a pain to accumulate. Not only were Valve frequently too lazy to put up a new mutation mode every week, but several of them didn't even count towards the achievement angry

Gladly this is no longer an issue, and I will pop the achievement myself for that sexy 100% as soon as I get home from vacation in beautiful Croatia dance

Furthermore; thanks a lot for the statistics! I always find them to be very interesting :) Keep up the good work, DoT!

EDIT: Editing dat grammar!
Thrifty SiMON
Energizing Soul - Loosing interest and time for gaming... Oh well :)
Achievement Completion Percentage: 93.09% (Includes owned DLC) - 8 more achievements required to reach 94%18 completed games(Includes owned DLC)74 posts
Last post: 08 Apr at 15:38
Posted on 12 August 12 at 21:21
Keep it up love the stats !
CrAzYBoMbER91
TrueAchievement Ratio: 1.4104TrueAchievement Site Rank: 38,632 out of 206,57543 posts
Last post: 28 Mar at 23:33
Posted on 12 August 12 at 21:28
hmm im still not sure whether to get dawnguard
aenima122
104,617
aenima122 - Love to boost, but not always at best of times thanks to work, wife, and kids
104,617  TrueAchievements points13 posts
Last post: Yesterday at 23:39
Posted on 12 August 12 at 21:32, Edited on 12 August 12 at 21:36 by aenima122
Thrifty SiMON said:The reason Left 4 Dead 2 has suddenly appeared on the chart is the recently released patch that makes it possible to play any mutation at any time. It seems there were quite a few players that only needed those last 6 mutations played for the 100% completion, and those were a pain to accumulate. Not only were Valve frequently too lazy to put up a new mutation mode every week, but several of them didn't even count towards the achievement angry
I lucked out and got Mutant Overlord a while ago, but I missed out on a few of the different types. Having the option to pick them helped me finally get around to Tank Burger and Still Something to Prove. Expert sure is easy with Gib Fest! Now I just need to get around to the 4 vs 4
Big Ell
161,385
Big Ell - Just curious...anybody on this site gotten laid lately?
TrueAchievement Ratio: 1.744520,773 comments1,585 posts
Last post: 19 May at 01:21
Posted on 12 August 12 at 21:50
"Deadlight debuted better then I expected" Your grammar is worse thAn I thought, Dog. :)
I NuII I
78,776
I NuII I
Achievement Completion Percentage: 89.79% (Includes owned DLC) - 6 more achievements required to reach 90%875 comments898 posts
Last post: 22 May at 08:50
Posted on 12 August 12 at 22:10
Skyrim ftw haha !!
Sgt Malarkey Br - Acabar todos os jogos do Xbox 360 que tenho e gostaria de ter. E partir para o ONE!
TrueAchievement Ratio: 1.9370Achievement Completion Percentage: 98.24% (Includes owned DLC) - 40 more achievements required to reach 99%3,207 posts
Last post: 21 May at 20:50
Posted on 12 August 12 at 22:18
Nice one, Deadlight on the top !!!
dshadow95
86,844  TrueAchievements pointsAchievement Completion Percentage: 54.53% (Includes owned DLC) - 25 more achievements required to reach 55%11 posts
Last post: 12 Aug 12 at 22:33
Posted on 12 August 12 at 22:33
Wasn't into RPG Games, but I did find Dead Island fun
AngryKamehameha - @Angry_Kay25: borderlands 2 or resident evil 6 dlc? i can get all 4 pieces of re6 but not all the bl2 pieces, which one?
185,394  TrueAchievements points167 posts
Last post: 30 Apr at 03:18
Posted on 12 August 12 at 23:35
took me a day and a half to complete tony hawk :P sorry DoT, some people are better at skateboarding than others apparently
Quarantane
62,697
Quarantane - I just unlocked my 2,000th achievement :)
Achievement Completion Percentage: 81.81% (Includes owned DLC) - 5 more achievements required to reach 82%TrueAchievement Ratio: 1.5382149 posts
Last post: 13 Oct 12 at 06:56
Posted on 12 August 12 at 23:37
I tried to play Hybrid...4 loading screens to start 1 game, the gameplay wasn't as bad as I expected, but I refuse to buy a game in which 2/3's of the time I play are spent waiting for loading screens.
finallife6
268,445
finallife6 - Xbox One: Won't be backwards compatible, a million cloud services, always on kinect, anything able to save it?
120 completed games(Includes owned DLC)TrueAchievement Ratio: 1.78241,544 posts
Last post: 21 May at 18:12
Posted on 13 August 12 at 00:16
Music nerd moment:
Isn't Flirtin With Disaster from the 70's and Rust In Peace from 1990? Brakes their achievement theme of crappy 80's hair metal songs :P
Psymon100
68,190
Psymon100
68,190  TrueAchievements pointsDonated to TrueAchievements.com930 posts
Last post: 28 Jan at 20:31
Posted on 13 August 12 at 00:20
Wow. More people started Minecraft (411) than the top retail game (Risen 2, 285).
Science, learning, rationalisation, education, logic, reason, critical thinking.
Giuseppe 215
104,805
Giuseppe 215 - Move over Prototype 2... Bioshock infinite is here!!
104,805  TrueAchievements points46 posts
Last post: 13 May at 23:42
Posted on 13 August 12 at 03:44
I'm still disappointed that The Walking Dead isn't available in Australia.
noth1ngness69
210,049
noth1ngness69
TrueAchievement Site Rank: 5,808 out of 206,575Achievement Completion Percentage: 90.15% (Includes owned DLC) - 57 more achievements required to reach 91%57 posts
Last post: 17 May at 12:26
Posted on 13 August 12 at 06:34
I need to be punched in the head. Tony hawk HD was way to fun to not 400
BaneDain
283,529
BaneDain
283,529  TrueAchievements points98 completed games(Includes owned DLC)556 posts
Last post: Today at 01:13
Posted on 13 August 12 at 07:19
Why isnt the walking dead in Ausralia? did they not just win rights to these kind of games (bloodier M rated games)
Tenlo
219,569
Tenlo - Looking for someone to help me finish Crimson Alliance - anyone able to help?
219,569  TrueAchievements points174 completed games(Includes owned DLC)124 posts
Last post: 01 Apr at 22:23
Posted on 13 August 12 at 07:39
Mwuuahhhh!! My prediction for Deadlight was spot on from last week!
www.Gamerscoreaddicts.net - UK based Over 21 forum for gamer fans of all styles!
Big Ell
161,385
Big Ell - Just curious...anybody on this site gotten laid lately?
TrueAchievement Ratio: 1.744520,773 comments1,585 posts
Last post: 19 May at 01:21
Posted on 13 August 12 at 17:49
noth1ngness69 said:I need to be punched in the head. Tony hawk HD was way to fun to not 400Too and to are not interchangeable. Look up the usage.

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