Quote Originally Posted by Barrynor View Post
No, if you read the fine print you will see that the SHARE is based upon (and TMP% is based upon...):
Source: Nielsen Games - GamePlay Metrics™. Share is the percentage of the gaming audience measured that played the title. Overall TMP% represents the percent of total minutes played from the Top 100 non-casual/pre-installed PC games measured.

So they measure both how many individuals play in their sample group, and their average playtime. The number of log-ons a bit irrelevant without the amount of playtime really. In other words: Lots of people play, and they play a good amount of time. Of course, calling a system that's perfectly ok for statistical analysis "dumb" does show your ability and knowledge of statistics. Just putting it out there you know ;-)
I would like to add that to this. Nielsen is relied upon by Fortune 500 communication and entertainment companies as well as advertising agencies and their clients to provide accurate information upon which they can make business decisions. People in this forum may think this is about nothing more than "bragging rights" but there actually is an important purpose to the information that Nielsen provides. To somehow suggest that Nielsen doesn't know what it is doing or that it's information is inacurrate or irrelevant is naive at best.