I wonder how many PC players there are so far...

I finally had the guts to go to online mode and check out the lobby last night... At what I thought would be a peak time, there were only a max of 20 people in the lobby, including myself... I figure the online stats shown by CriterionGames News blotters are for totals of all players from all 3 platforms, and with the dismally small amount of people shown online for PC, and the fact that an amateur like myself could set so many daily online records at that time of night leads me to wonder how few PC players there are.

I suppose that since the game's only been out for a couple of days (literally) for computers that this will pick up... I hope so!... But I'd have thought with all the 9.0+ rave reviews at the various gaming sites that more people would have grabbed it right away. I know that ever since I saw the notices of it coming soon to the PC I bookmarked the news pages for those sites, as well as have been subscribed to Direct2Drive in the hopes that it would come there. It did, too! 1 day early, even! (yes, I started playing it the morning of the 5th hehe).

Wait...I wonder if that's why there's so few PC players online so far...Was release day for "the general populace"... Hmmm.

So...I have no friends.

Well, that's not entirely accurate.

I have no friends who play Burnout (any one of them) on the PC or otherwise.

Okay, so for this game's purposes, I have no friends...

I thought about trying to join some random online games, but I have this weird thing about people who try to get a name they like, and failing that, tack on numbers or weird characters to a partial version of the name just to get it... *shrugs* Nothing against them personally, per se, but I like playing with people who feel a bit more creative in that they try for something else that's more original (i.e.; no one else thought of the name yet). I've noted that people who keep trying until they get a name they like and that isn't taken tend to have a more laid back less "hardcore" personality... Yes, that's a generalization, but I see the former as more the hardcore fps shooter "CS A Type" (CS = Counterstrike) personality and the latter as more of the "Explorer E Type" personalities. You know the ones...more apt to cruise around and explore the game rather than only log on to raid (MMO reference, sorry, but the most readily referenced type of game to refer to gamer personality types as rated by those fun sites).

Wow...another ramble from me...Go figure. lol

Okay, point was...? Hmmm....I think I almost forgot my point.

Oh yes! Point is, I hope that the game garners more online players that I could see myself racing with. When I played MMO's, I always joined "casual, fun and family oriented" ones...I used to be a raider (hardcore gamer) but as I've gotten older, I've found that I'm less driven to prove I'm "the best" at anything, and that my free game time is best spent enjoying myself rather than working at something and getting irate when it doesn't work out just perfectly for me, or I don't get my "drop", I'm not the top of the dps charts, etc. Let's not forget being judged by others as not being as good as them.... Excuse me...I'm old, tired, not in the best health, and just want to enjoy my game time, not play who's the biggest...rooster...in the henhouse anymore. lol

I'm still a BurnoutAholic. Well...NOW I am.