February 2007, busiest month since ever

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This is for the people that argue that we're a dying site, elitist and stagnant.

January 2007 (134,072 unique visitors) beat the previous busiest month by a small margin (March 2006, 132,150), but February 2007 gave it a massive whalloping despite being only 28 days long at 146,610. For comparison's sake, February 2006 had 114,200, roughly a 30% increase over the year.

So, uhm...just sayin'?
 
I did notice a considerable increase in the number of people being online in the Fora throughout February, even in the late hours I usually enter, so I was kinda expecting to see this increase in activity being reflected in the number of unique site visitors as well. With all the featured articles, and the FO3 threads opening up here or in various other Fora, it just makes you feel like we're gaining momentum for something important to happen...

The numbers will increase even more when concrete info on FO3 comes out, I guess. Cheers!
 
a few hundred of those are probably from me checking up on the page from different people's houses.

cool a party... Where's a puter, must check on fallout...
 
is this an elitist site? oh boy...I already feel the pressure

so when some Footage from Fallout 3 will come out how many unique visitors will be I wonder.

these numbers can be used as a weapon agains Beth$ if they come up with a shitty game? these numbers will help to rise the attention and peoples awareness? will this numbers help a boycott?
 
If you type Fallout in Google's default Firefox quick search, you can also see that Fallout 3 is on top of the "suggestions" list, only seconded by Fallout Boy...
 
Must be the sudden surge of news about Fallout 3 that tells us nothing.

Anyways, you can use this to gather an army to march upon beths office. I can imagine nerds around the world standing up in rage, then sitting down, panting heavily
 
Well, speaking on my recent activity on the site, I was compelled to become more active after playing oblivion for the first time...I had no point of reference towards Bethesda's games; as I do not much care for FPS, (pre-determined) adventure and that blocky, chunky look of those games....
I was involved years ago, but I think that for a lot fans (myself included), when Black Isle closed and the future looked grim in regards to a faithful sequel being made by the same capable hands, it became almost unbareable. For some people, complacency is the major factor, but for me, It has always been a really sore spot....one that is constantly reinforced when browsing this site and reading about what once was....
I also think that since there is a shard, a distant blurry glimmer of hope that F3 might be at least playable, new interest and new life is breathed into Fallout....hope being the primary factor....
(On a side note) With the advent of F3, there will be a huge amount of interest drummed up in the older games, as an entire new generation is exposed to games that have REAL substance....
 
I disagree. I feel as though a lot of fans of Fallout who haven't taken an active role in development participation are coming out of the woodwork now. I just joined this site, partially because my email adress is a Hotmail one, but more because of the fact that I want a Fallout 3 and don't want Bethesda to do a haphazard job. I don't know about anyone else but whenever I visualize it, I see a guy sitting at a computer terminal at Bethesda saying "Well, a lot of people are going to be pissed about this being in the game..." With some supervisor peering over his shoulder saying "Eh, whatever, keep it in, so what if they don't call it canon?" It upsets me. I don't want to buy a game where the flash and the glamour take away from the experience. I don't really want to own a game that the kid down the street plays religiously because it's more addictive than world of warcraft or dance dance revolution. I want to accidentally get married after I rail a chick in a small town, and then go to New Reno in order to get divorced. I want chaos, not order, and I'm worried that Bethesda may try to sell us the bastion of dissapointment to an otherwise incredible franchise.

-Brian
 
If u want to have chaos in the game u have to have order in the real world. And the only way to do this it to fight Beth with fire. Literally. Torch their buildings and let someone else take the licence. If they too screw up torch them too, and so on :)
 
I have a Google alert on "Fallout 3" and it's been spewing out a multitude of alerts on a daily basis for the last 2 months now. Like Styrofoam says, dormant fans are coming out of the woodwork.
 
Alright, you made me succumb to register after years of lurking :wink:
Yes, as others mentioned Fallout seems to have a large "latent" fanbase. People who played the games, liked them put them out of their mind after finishing them.
I found however, after engaging in several F3 related newsdiscussions on the biggest gamingsite here in my country, that linking the interview with STG Victor (awesome work) about the dreadful handling Bethesda gave the ST franchise works wonders to get this group active and interested in F3/Bethesda. And as a result visiting this site.
I assume similar behavior is taking place on sites all over the internet and that the numbers of visitors here will continue to rise at an increasing rate as the F3 PR-machine picks up pace.
Which can only be good, the more eyes Bethesda got on them the better...
 
Styrofoam Peanuts said:
I disagree. I feel as though a lot of fans of Fallout who haven't taken an active role in development participation are coming out of the woodwork now. I just joined this site, partially because my email adress is a Hotmail one, but more because of the fact that I want a Fallout 3 and don't want Bethesda to do a haphazard job. I don't know about anyone else but whenever I visualize it, I see a guy sitting at a computer terminal at Bethesda saying "Well, a lot of people are going to be pissed about this being in the game..." With some supervisor peering over his shoulder saying "Eh, whatever, keep it in, so what if they don't call it canon?" It upsets me. I don't want to buy a game where the flash and the glamour take away from the experience. I don't really want to own a game that the kid down the street plays religiously because it's more addictive than world of warcraft or dance dance revolution. I want to accidentally get married after I rail a chick in a small town, and then go to New Reno in order to get divorced. I want chaos, not order, and I'm worried that Bethesda may try to sell us the bastion of dissapointment to an otherwise incredible franchise.

-Brian
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Were you disagreeing with what I said, if so, what point were you disagreeing with, as your post seemed spot on in my opinion...
 
Everyone just comes here to look at my awesome Avatar, I'm world famous didnt you know ;)

But it is cool to note how many people come here, if only game devs would recognise our igsignificant community of over 100,000 people how like the original Fallouts
 
Oh, Diarmada, I just meant that hope might not be the driving force behind fans of the game emerging now that Bethesda has the reigns. I haven't played Oblivion, but I've seen it played and it didn't fill me with hope. I was more or less just saying that fans are emerging because there's strength in numbers, and now more than ever is the time we should be pulling together for what we as fans want in the game. However, we're both right, whether it be hope or concern, we're all taking stock in this game. I had a grand maul seizure when Fallout: Tactics came out and my mom wanted to rush me to the hospital. I had to delay her to finish a mission, and I'm sure you can only imagine how ecstatic I was when I found out I'd have to stay up for two days straight for an EKG. I think we all have done ridiculous stuff in the name of Fallout, I don't think that pooling together our collective resources to make sure we don't get gipped is that far off.

I guess what I'm saying is that I'd rather have hope than woe, but right now all I have is deference for the old and distrust for the new.

-Brian
 
speaking of which, why dont we get our own PR machine

i know we cant be truely sure that Fallout 3 will suck
but we can definetly make sure people know what the risk is and how evil Bethesda can be

ill informative posters/flyers in mass quantity if someone will make? :twisted:
 
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