Multiplayer during the World Cup

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How did the FIFA World Cup Final and third place games affect UNCHARTED 2 multiplayer? We took at a look at our concurrent user data for those days and have posted them after the jump.

By arne | Twitter @arnemeyer | Monday July 19 2010

Last week, Google posted the effects of the World Cup on search engine queries to Google.com by country. They showed how much of an impact certain games, and the tournament overall, had on search activity – basically showing that, in general, significant amounts of people were focused solely on the World Cup during the fixture. Not surprising considering that soccer (or football) is considered the world’s most popular sport.

We figured we would take a look and see if we saw something similar with UNCHARTED 2 multiplayer. Before even looking, we expected to see the number of concurrent online players to drop during World Cup fixtures. We weren’t disappointed.

The graph below shows the typical curve of our concurrent online player population on an average day.

As you can see, we typically get our peak player population around the middle of the day, U.S. Pacific time.

Now let’s see what happened during the World Cup Third Place fixture, which was played on Saturday, July 10, 2010.

It’s pretty clear that a portion of our player population that is typically online was watching the World Cup fixture. It’s interesting to note that people started coming online before the game was over, much less decided, as the game-winning goal didn’t come until about four minutes before regulation time expired.

Now, we would expect to see a much more severe dip during the World Cup Final, and that’s precisely what we saw, as shown in the map below.

It’s not surprising that just about everybody watched the entire game before hopping back to playing UNCHARTED 2. Even after the game, not everybody came back – no doubt either celebrating Spain’s first World Cup or lamenting the loss suffered by the Netherlands.

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Posted by: DeadnBuried on 07-20-2010

How is that “fair”? You realise they did this skin thing because it’s the WORLD cup, right? It involves the whole damn planet, THAT is why they decided to support it with themed skins. They’re not gunna do the same for a solely american sport because the rest of the world doesn’t give a shit.

Posted by: renostheflash on 07-19-2010

hey arne u got have to fix the pull downs man.iam getting really tired of jumping of smg and then get pulled down and pls remove situational awerenases .im lev 63 and i cant see other high levels like to use that booster.if u dont want to remove it then just allow that booster from lev 20-40 thnks.
renostheflash peace out

Posted by: spartaQ8 on 07-21-2010

dear ame, I really like this game, but I’ve been trying to connect to MP for the last 2 weeks. And I always get the same error at exactly the same place (error syncing models) almost half the way through, right after the syncing live data in the middel. I’ve done evey trick in the book many times to solve this, deleting game files redownloaded patchs, reset my router etc… , but no luck ):

I think we need a real update to fix this.

I also reported this many times on the technical issues page in this site, but got no answer.

Note: all my other PS3 games works perfectly fine when playing online and offline.

Plus: I have the 160 GB Fat PS3 the one bundeled with uncharted Drake’s fortune. if that would help you in solving the error.

replying is appreciate…

Posted by: Mugrezio on 07-19-2010

Hey Arnie,

I have a question. I was wondering if the difficulty setting levels are avaiable on SURVIVAL MODE? I know on Objetive Co-op they are, but on SURVIVAL is doesn’t say anything, no message saying “Hard Co-op” or “Crushing Co-op”, so I was wondering if it makes any difference to set “Hard” or “Crushing” on the SURVIVAL MODE or nothing at all?

See ya!

Posted by: Mugrezio on 07-19-2010

Thanks for the answer, Arnie!

But are you guys planning on making a difficulty setting for Survival mode? It’d would be really cool. Lots of people reach a level of skills that makes the survival easy to make it trough(my case, play u2 a lot), so why can’t it be like objective co-op??

See ya!

Posted by: xZai- on 07-20-2010

No more crash bandicoot?...well it was one of the best series and it had a wonderfull lifetime… well i have a question about uncharted 2 multyiplayer..when i was paired with lower levels during match making and when i entered the game everything was ood but when they started shooting me it was like their bullets are stronger than when i play agaisnt like 61-65’s is there a reason for that or are they just getting everyshot off??
UNCHARTED 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: mi_dude2 on 07-19-2010

Thanks for posting that info, NaughtyDog, it was really cool of you to do that.

On a side note, what are you going to do about shotguns in the future? I’m sick and tired of people running around with shotguns, getting close to someone, and blind-firing R1, which would lock on to the enemy no mater what and kill them. I’m not suggesting take away any power or range. But at the very least they should have to aim down the sights for a one shot kill like that.
I have Invalid and I still find shotguns kill me ridiculously fast compared to an AK-47.

Posted by: ivgenygigi on 07-20-2010

DEAR ND !
FOOTBALL became very very BORRING . we are so lucky that we have such a brilliant game called UNCHARTED 2 to entertain us . i playing U2 almost from the begining and i still enjoing it like i did 10 months ago .
Already in the first half i realized its gonna be one booooorrriiing WORLD CUP FINAL , so i mooved my but to PS3 to my U2 multiplayer

the SOCCER SKINS were nice , but i dont like the idea it taking place of rest of the skins like DOUGHNUT DRAKE my favorite ...

ANY WAY ND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS EXCELLENT GAME THANK FOR KEEP UPDATING IT AND MAKING BETTER .

By the way what about new DLC ????

Posted by: Carnivius_Prime on 07-20-2010

Not me. I can’t think of many things more boring than watching a football match. Playing football with friends is fun though.

The Uncharted 2 football shirts added a bit more color but I did find it hard to tell between Drake and Flynn when wearing the same shirts which made me hesitate sometimes when shooting.

By the way, female villain skins are long overdue.

Posted by: Xx-UNCHARTED2-xX on 07-20-2010

Ok this is off topic but.... whens 1.09 coming?

ive raged to this game lots and lots of time ive gotten mad.... but i tried to play uc2 again and again.. then i actually am back in this game… yea im unpredictable..

so anyways, 1.09 ND huh? when and post the info of the changes earlier ok.... early i wanna see this if the game lags even more and sucks even MORE (even if it already does suck a lot cuz of the lags and health and freezing problems… no i dont hate this game i just dislike the fact that they change the original VGA awarded game...)

so… please reply this comment ND i really wanna see 1.09

so my QUESTION is:

when’s 1.09 coming and when will the 1.09 post be posted? please post it quick cuz i really wanna see the new update.... if its coming

Posted by: FH-Merciful-Evil on 07-20-2010

Hey ND It’s me uncharted 2 again :D

this is my psn for uc3… yeah im actually preparing for it…

oh and a suggestion.... AFTER u guys release 1.09, i hope its the last TU because i’m looking forward to see uc3 announcement to be released in blablabla but i hope it will be released in fall 2011 or earlier

anyway, please ND make uc3 we are ur fans forever and u wont disapoint us… unless u guys make uc3 even worst than uc2 1.05 - 1.08 LOL

anyway… yeah cant wait for uc3 and 1.09

FH-Merciful-Evil

Clan: [ FH ] Fortune Hunter

Join? Ok But Your KDR Must Be Above 1.50 and above 20K kills (yeah i need experienced players so far i got only 2 or 3 i forgot lol)

Posted by: DerKing007 on 07-20-2010

hey die solten mal gedanken machen wie die die schei*** CHITTER weg krigen weil jeder 2 chittert und das finde ich nicht gut wie plündern das ist kein datmatch sondern plündern und die machen nur kills der schatz kommt da nicht in fragen da ran sollt ihr was machen.

Posted by: DerKing007 on 07-20-2010

hey Solter times the thoughts do seem like the *** chitter away because everyone kriger chittert two and I do not think this is asking good as plunder loot and make no datmatch but only kills the treasure does not come in because there ran ye what to do

Posted by: Y_5150 on 07-20-2010

there is alot of talk about- JAK4, UCH3, 1.09, DLC
but this isn’t about those things
I bet all those things are coming
we just got wait ..............ND can’t wait for another special event like the soccer skins +_+

Posted by: CaptainGillette on 07-21-2010

But likely misleading. I don’t pay attention to any sports, so I had mine on ‘Random’ the whole time… or I picked a team based on wanting to be a particular color (once I figured out which ones looked like what). The graphs make it look like only about a third of the game’s regulars stopped to watch the cup, so I’d guess that less than a third picked a skin specifically to virtually root for that country.

Posted by: utahdolphin on 07-20-2010

i dont think that u should have pretty much erased all the villan skins with flinn world cup i mean i hate soccer and it went in front of my favorite villan skin it would be cool with like super bowl jerseys but i didnt like the world cup jerseys

Posted by: korgon117 on 07-20-2010

Not sure who would care about this but I guess when you got nothing else to talk about this is whats up. But anyway I would have been fine with the skins if they had voices! I mean first you take away the game we bought in Oct. 2009, now your taking the voices out? If there is anything that really needs 2 go its situational GAYness.

Posted by: mi_dude2 on 07-20-2010

WEIRDEST GLITCH GAME EVER.

I was playing a Team DeathMatch in the temple. When the countdown ended there was no load screen (With the tabletop full of pictures) and I just jumped right in the game. My teammates appeared frozen in place behind me. I ran to the other side and I saw the entire enemy team standing there, motionless. I gunned them all down. Later, I randomly died by an enemy who wasn’t even close.

Why? Every person would see everyone else as not moving, If a person shot and killed someone, the victim would die, no matter where his “phantom” was on the map.

It’s really hard to explain, I checked the cinema but what was recorded was a blank black screen and the time said -8.34. That’s right, negative. It was only 0.08 megabytes.

Posted by: Jimmy_980 on 07-21-2010

that has happened to me once too, but quite some time ago. This can be very useful cause i needed two more tripled medals then, after this game i didn’t need them anymore and got some other trophies as well like fire in the hole and stuff. I do agree with you that is no fun at all, however.

Posted by: VideoK1d on 07-20-2010

Naughty Dog.
I don’t know if you have answered this but.
There have been times where my signal went on the internet and I got kicked off the game. I would get fined as if I left the game.
Hasn’t happened in a few weeks. But I would never leave a game.
Also if that happens could you say instead of Videok1d left the game, Videokid got disconnected?

Posted by: ZIDANNE5_Kevin7 on 07-23-2010

HEY CAPTAIN980 I PLAY THE UNCHARTED 2 AND THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE WHO SPEAKS ABOUT SOMETHING THAT I KNOW FLAME DLC AND DO NOT KNOW THAT IT IS IT, I DO NOT FIND OUT ABOUT LO THAT THEY SPEAK BECAUSE OF IT I ASK THAT IT IS DLC TO BE ABLE TO KNOW ABOUT WHAT THEY SPEAK.

Posted by: danieldc71 on 07-21-2010

very good ND but the other i was starting a match den every1 was frozen but if u found ur enemys frozen u could kill them but if dey find ur body u wuld randomly die im like WtF!! i had like 20 kills anyways… wat im asking is does this happen cuz 1 persons internet or all the ppl’s internet just wanna no hope u mak a new DLC i wuld really want sum new boosters hope u do thxs thxs

Posted by: macbro4007 on 07-22-2010

Hi Naughtydog. I know this is pretty off topic, but here are some DLC ideas

Beach Map
Bikini Clhoe
Bikini Elena
Bathingsuit Drake
Bathingsuit Flynn
Donought Lazaravich

Moving Train map
Train Yard Map

Shamballa Gaurd
Yeti
Uncharted 2 sully
Hatless Tenzin

Thanks For reading

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Multiplayer during the World Cup

How did the FIFA World Cup Final and third place games affect UNCHARTED 2 multiplayer? We took at a look at our concurrent user data for those days and have posted them after the jump.

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