PlayerAuctions, the largest platform where players can access the secondary market for digital gaming goods, announced the release of a proprietary player count tool, tracking active players across 86 popular games, including a number of titles which have hitherto not released any player count figures. This aligns with their broader mission of empowering gamers, bringing transparency to the secondary market for digital gaming goods, and democratizing the video game industry.
By giving players access to game player count metrics, prospective buyers or active gamers can assess the health of a video game before making a purchase or determine whether or not they want to commit more time to a game. This aligns with the philosophy underpinning the rest of PlayerAuctions’ suite of tools, including a market-price tracker for the secondary market, account value calculators, as well as game-specific statistic pages: a focus on transparency, giving gamers the tools and metrics they need to take ownership of their gaming assets, and make informed consumer decisions.
“With the size of the video game industry, the dollar amount spent, and time committed by the average gamer to any given game, it is critical that consumers be given the tools required to make responsible and informed decisions on the basis of transparency,” said Mr. Albert, the Chief Operating Officer at PlayerAuctions, “we’ve worked for decades to help players take ownership of their digital gaming assets, and our player count tool gives them more protection against contemporary consumer challenges.”
The player count tool was developed as an easy-to-use interface that can give gamers access to aggregated player counts. The number is synthesized from public APIs, Steam, and a variety of Google analytic data, followed by rigorous testing to give an accurate output. Its lightweight architecture gives users the easiest and most comprehensive place to find up-to-date information about player counts in a specific game.
PlayerAuctions has also developed a suite of other tools. A market-price tracker which gives up-to-date and real-time pricing information on a variety of products across different games and an account value calculator to give players an approximate dollar value of their game accounts. All of these tools empower consumers to make better, more informed, and more transparent decisions vis-à-vis their digital gaming assets, designed with a core focus on being lightweight and easy-to-use, ensuring the broadest level of accessibility.
Similar to their underlying business of providing buyers and sellers the safest platform for buying and seller digital gaming assets, PlayerAuctions tool development was guided by the principle of greater access, greater transparency, and the benefit that more informed consumers can bring to businesses – giving modern customers the information necessary to make their own decisions regarding where and how to commit their time, money, and effort.
The player count tool is available for free to all consumers, to see an example for Fortnite, one of the games PlayerAuctions monitors, follow this link: https://www.playerauctions.com/player-count/fortnite.
About PlayerAuctions
PlayerAuctions is the market leader facilitating the buying and selling of digital gaming assets. They connect and support buyers and sellers by providing them a robust set platform marketplace services, including but not limited to, fraud-protection, identity verification, payment disbursement, after-sale insurance and protection, and customer support. The company was founded in 1999, based on the philosophy of giving players access and control of their own gaming assets. For more information about PlayerAuctions, please visit https://www.playerauctions.com.
An example of a game specific player count tool, with a variety of data visualization options.
A price tracker following the dollar value of Gold, the primary currency in Old School Runescape, over time.