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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 7653087" data-attributes="member: 1">You may have seen me talking about EN World's <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/hotgames.php" target="_blank">HOT GAMES TRACKER</a> recently.  It asks the question: What's the current zeitgeist? What are the hottest games being played  right now?  This isn't a list of sales figures; it tracks what's  currently being talked about using a top secret algorithm.  Each game is  also conveniently linked to a search for discussion about it right here  on EN World, should you want to find out more. The spotlight list  changes from time to time. The red and green arrows show a game's  general trend over the last 90 days - is it being discussed more or less  than it was in the previous 90 days?[PRBREAK][/PRBREAK]This page tracks discussion  of over a quarter of a million forum members and approaching a thousand  blogs on a selection of major independent RPG discussion forums to  create an overall sample from a list including <a href="http://www.enworld.org" target="_blank">EN World</a>, <a href="http://www.rpg.net" target="_blank">RPGnet</a>, <a href="http://www.ukroleplayers.com/" target="_blank">UK Roleplayers</a>, <a href="http://www.rpggeek.com" target="_blank">RPG Geek</a>, the <a href="http://www.rpgbloggers.com/" target="_blank">RPG Bloggers</a> network of nearly 300 blogs and the <a href="http://www.rpgba.org/index.php" target="_blank">RPG Blog Alliance</a> of nearly 600 blogs.I've extracted some data from that page and turned it into a couple of nifty pie charts.  I've presented them below.  A couple of caveats:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The pie charts aren't really the the thing. The raw data on the linked page is. If you disagree with the way the data is presented here, I encourage you to look at the actual numbers instead and derive your own conclusions.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">This is NOT sales data; it's also NOT what games folks are playing at home.  It's exactly what it says it is: a large representative sample of the game folks are talking about online.  So be careful what conclusions you extrapolate from that.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The final D&D Next playtest packet was just released.  This gave DDN a huge boost.  I looked at this data this time last week (sadly, I didn't think to graph it) and Pathfinder was leading D&D Next by nearly 5%.  I'll look again at it in a few weeks to see if D&D Next holds its current lead or drops back down to second place again.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The two graphs were compiled a couple of days apart, so the figures changed slightly between them.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I was asked yesterday why 13TH AGE was considered D&D in one graph, and not part of "Other D&D" in the second.  That was simply because it was the largest item in "Other D&D" so I slipped it out separately as a clear visual point of comparison.  It's not meant to imply the "D&D-ness" or "lack-of-D&D-ness" of it or anything else.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">It's ROLEPLAYING GAMES sites and blogs only.  I'm sure if we were looking at tabletop wargaming sites, things like Warhammer 40K would be vastly more popular; as it is, that game refers here to the line of RPGs, not the wargame.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">This is not a qualitative judgement. Your favourite game is the best.</li> </ol>So, without further ado: <img src="http://www.enworld.org/newsimages/hotgames.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> <img src="http://www.enworld.org/newsimages/hotgames2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> </blockquote>

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