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EQ2U Funding and Such

Discussion in 'EQ2U Players Support & Feedback' started by Feldon, Oct 17, 2018.

  1. Feldon

    Feldon Administrator Staff Member

    From a little bit of searching, it looks like the LOTRO API was shut off in 2013 a day before Helm's Deep launched and has not been reinstated.

    SWTOR seems to have an API or a third party API. I'd have to research it.
     
  2. Khendrask

    Khendrask Active Member

    Okay, you were valuable to me when I was playing EQ2, and thank you for looking into the above... $$ incoming!
     
  3. Errrorr

    Errrorr Active Member

    If you want to jump on the hype train, Fortnite has a pretty decent API I believe. Especially for it's secondary mode - Save the world.

    Quite a few sites already doing work on it though, e.g https://www.stormshield.one
     
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  4. Dellmon

    Dellmon Member

    I think one of the, if not the biggest, reasons that EQ2U was as successful as it has been was their tagline - - "For Players, By Players". EQ2U created features that players wanted and needed and would leverage. Why? Because they were players themselves and understood (to the best of their abilities) how the game was played, it mechanics, and what players needed to be successful.

    To support this all you need to do is look at the second (?) iteration launch of EQ2Players and you can see why that tool sits out in the Daybreak boneyard rusting away.

    Couple the strong relation that Feldon and Dethldr had with Daybreak with their EQ2 game knowledge and they being fans of the game is what let them create a very successful tool / fan site.

    Hopefully this does not come across as being "Debbie Downer", but I don't think you ever find that magic again in just looking for game next's API and building a site for it to monetize. Without being a player, fan, and having the passion for the FAN SITE that your creating then all you are building "EQ2Players.com Next" and the MMO internet landscape is littered with those already...
     
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  5. Feldon

    Feldon Administrator Staff Member

    For sure I would have to have other people explain that game to me which would have some things lost in translation. No surprise that I hoped to make a site for both EQ and EQ3/EQN as that would be a great return on the investment of time it took to get the backend of EQ2U up and running.
     
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  6. Sweatypie

    Sweatypie Active Member

    Contact DBG and ask if they would be willing to buy it if its almost entirely self sufficient and requires little to no mainteance, maybe they will invest in the game for once to keep it running.
     
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  7. Ynnek

    Ynnek New Member

    Long overdue donation on the way.
     
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  8. Sweatypie

    Sweatypie Active Member

    A new chart January 13th would be great. See if the expansion had any effect on eq2u lookups and how high it spiked.
     
  9. Feldon

    Feldon Administrator Staff Member

    I have had quite a few donations in the last 3 weeks and I will be making good on that buy fully updating the site over the coming weeks. And yes I can do another stats run.
     
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  10. Nelenerap

    Nelenerap New Member

    Feldon, thank you for providing the community with such a robust and useful resource. My wife and I use the site often to help optimize our characters. The improvements that have been made to our performance would not have been possible or would have been MUCH more difficult had we not had access to this site.

    If you did an annual subscription like you pondered on earlier in this thread, we'd definitely buy in on it.

    EDIT: Forgot to add that we sent a donation in today. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
     
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  11. Feldon

    Feldon Administrator Staff Member

    Thank you kindly. I've gotten quite a few donations recently which is making it at lot easier to keep things rolling. Thank you all.
     
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  12. Feldon

    Feldon Administrator Staff Member

    It was suggested that it might be a good time to re-run these queries and see where the numbers are. These are corrected non-unique numbers meaning if a character was pulled 10 times within a month, it counts 10 times in the results.

    Code:
    2013-10: 333836
    2013-11: 359952
    2013-12: 430536
    
    2014-01: 430951
    2014-02: 353474
    2014-03: 361431
    2014-04: 301522
    2014-05: 294937
    2014-06: 268658
    2014-07: 313932
    2014-08: 331902
    2014-09: 278523
    2014-10: 242140
    2014-11: 244108
    2014-12: 259873
    
    2015-01: 301887
    2015-02: 305358
    2015-03: 370785
    2015-04: 328847
    2015-05: 300556
    2015-06: 284698
    2015-07: 295667
    2015-08: 313133
    2015-09: 271889
    2015-10: 286755
    2015-11: 299889
    2015-12: 286964
    
    2016-01: 305673
    2016-02: 265624
    2016-03: 260132
    2016-04: 234294
    2016-05: 234241
    2016-06: 218069
    2016-07: 306537
    2016-08: 222438
    2016-09: 222469
    2016-10: 221156
    2016-11: 189138
    2016-12: 302230
    
    2017-01: 280632
    2017-02: 236584
    2017-03: 239557
    2017-04: 218538
    2017-05: 242512
    2017-06: 213649
    2017-07: 212971
    2017-08: 219137
    2017-09: 205715
    2017-10: 189332
    2017-11: 158025
    2017-12: 192566
    
    2018-01: 171599
    2018-02: 150720
    2018-03: 154085
    2018-04: 110122
    2018-05: 108026
    2018-06: 108766
    2018-07: 112724
    2018-08: 113006
    2018-09: 105047
    2018-10: 92777
    2018-11: 91947
    2018-12: 124408
    
    2019-01: 110247
    2019-02: 89789
    2019-03: 96188
    2019-04: 121806 
    2019-05: 91079
    2019-06: 79961
    2019-07: 96418
    
     
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  13. Feldon

    Feldon Administrator Staff Member

    And here's the chart, corrected to include every day in each month.

    eq2u_character_lookup_log2013-2019fixed.png
     
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  14. Sweatypie

    Sweatypie Active Member

    The numbers for 2019 is a lot better than I expected actually.

    Do you even break even with add revenue and what ever other income you have on the site these days Feldon?
     
  15. Feldon

    Feldon Administrator Staff Member

    The donations people have been sending have been very helpful and covered this year.
     
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  16. Dellmon

    Dellmon Member

    @Feldon, can you explain what you mean by Non-unique Character Lookups?

    Thanks
     
  17. Feldon

    Feldon Administrator Staff Member

    If a character is looked up 10 times in a month, they count 10 times that month. It is possible for me to filter this so that each character only counts once per month.

    I have corrected a problem with the data and graphics in my previous two posts on this page.
     
    Last edited: Aug 13, 2019
  18. Sweatypie

    Sweatypie Active Member

    Unique searches per year would be fun to see too if its not a huge hazzle.
     
  19. Feldon

    Feldon Administrator Staff Member

    I was not able to get unique characterIDs per month when I was trying to trawl 8GB of data (2013-2018), but since I am only searching over 2018-2019, this is now possible. Here are the unique characters looked up each month on EQ2U:

    Code:
    Jan 2018: 29536
    Feb 2018: 28163
    Mar 2018: 28268
    Apr 2018: 24863
    May 2018: 27508
    Jun 2018: 25690
    Jul 2018: 26359
    Aug 2018: 27560
    Sep 2018: 27668
    Oct 2018: 26919
    Nov 2018: 28011
    Dec 2018: 30909
    Jan 2019: 27641
    Feb 2019: 23241
    Mar 2019: 25063
    Apr 2019: 42065
    May 2019: 23879
    Jun 2019: 21381
    Jul 2019: 28868
     
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  20. Anaogi

    Anaogi Active Member

    That...that's just sad. Especially when you adjust for alts and multiboxers.

    Before much longer there may be more people on CoH rogue servers than on EQ2.
     
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