According to Cliffski, the author of Gratuitous Space Battles, the GSB server has served over half a million battles for network games… Â (Over 501,934 battles at the time of posting)
See here:
Here’s a chirpy statistic. At the time of writing, the total number of online ‘challenge’ games of Gratuitous Space Battles that have been played is…
501,934
Or in other words…
HALF A MILLION GAMES OF GRATUITOUS SPACE BATTLES.
That’s just online challenges, meaning player A trying to beat player B’s fleet, whether it’s on Mac or PC, direct or through steam. It’s all handled by my server. The number of offline, single player games against the pre-shipping AI fleets is likely to be a lot higher. That’s pretty scary. Also, lets not dismiss over 40,000 uploaded player challenges (actually many more, older unplayed ones get deleted) and over 100,000 campaign battles already.
I actually own two copies, and it’s a great game… Â If you haven’t taken a look, then you should…
And his work-in-progress “Game 4”, his aptly code named new game, has the potential to be nice follow up… Â Whatever the game ends up being, if we listen to his blog… |-)