ESO is the only game i have EVER had an issue with on Steam. I have dozens of games on Steam and have been using it over a decade. Steam is awesome for game library management. Personally, I can’t see why anyone would use Steam to access ESO in the first place. So these figures are fundamentally valueless. Someone who starts playing ESO without Steam will never be recognised at all. So someone who leaves Steam, but continues to play ESO, will be incorrectly registered as a loss.

Steam users are not a consistent % of ESO population, hence any figures that only sample Steam users will only tell us about Steam users rather than the ESO population as a whole. What makes Steam users non-representative of the player base as a whole? Are they of lower IQ? Do they have attention deficit disorders that cause them to jump from game to game? Millions of people have bought the game through Steam, but some are claiming because their launcher has a little Steam logo in the corner that their experience is irrelevant. So yes, with this reasoning, Steam users may be under representing the actual player loss. Maybe they're dropping out at a larger rate than Steam users. With this logic, then the other side is a self-selecting set of people who have chosen to use the Zenimax launcher. It’s a self-selecting set of people who have chosen to use Steam to purchase and play games.Īs such the information it reveals is statistically irrelevant and cannot be used to extrapolate larger trends. There's so much misinformation in this threadįirst things first, yes obviously steam is a subset (of a subset) of the playerbase.

Cs source steam charts