Talk:Nekros/Prime/@comment-213.1.4.101-20160915201657/@comment-109.242.88.88-20161015152043

Yeah, the steam graph is definitely not a proper source for that specific claim. Even if we assume that it is representative of the player base of Warframe, you can't conclude that players are leaving because of the quality of the recent updates. As the commenter above me already pointed out, you can see a pattern of players generally leaving after every major update/event and coming back again for the next one. If you look more carefully in the steam graph you can see that the players in September were about 39,000, which is around the average player base in the break time inbetween updates.

There are many other various factors as well. For example Warframe gained a lot of popularity pretty recently and many casual gamers probably tried it out. The problem is we lack the data to see if the players leaving are old players that are fed up with the update quality or new players that tried the game and didn't like it (for the latter the quality of update would have not caused them to leave).

To sum up, the conclusion that players are leaving because of the quality of updates can't be backed up by any dataset we currently possess, and only DE can make that evaluation. The conclusion of OP is driven by his projection of the "fed up" emotion to the rest of the player base.