Neilsen's PC Game Rakings: WTF?

[Bond]

http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/07/neisentoppc.jpg

If anyone who doesn't know the company Neilsen, they rate how many people watch television shows. Anyway, apparently they now rate PC game usage, but does anyone actually think this list is accurate?

[Null]

very inaccurate.

world of warcraft i can see being number one, if not very high on the list.

however counterstrike (counting both versions) would easily be number 2 or 1, it has about 150,000 to 200,000 people playing online at any given time, so you can imagine how many people actually play total. this versus halo PC maybe 2,000 online at any given time. ( www.gamespy.com/stats )
so halo being number 2 on pc? no way in hell. on console; sure. not for pc.


i'd like to know how they got these stats to begin with... going around asking a bunch of console gamers what they play on pc?

[GameMaster]

w00t for WarCraft 3!

Which I have been off of for a few weeks now...

[Typhoid]

I want to know what those asterisks are asteriking.

[Null]

warcraft 3 is anohter one on that list. i reinstalled it a while ago and played it. and it searches and searches for people to play against... i dont think its in the top 10 at all...

and battlefield 2, and UT2004 should also be in the list

Basically... i think they just wrote down a bunch of random computer games for a top10..