I’ve clearly been playing too much Planet Puzzle League.  Of course, I’ve been cutting back as much as possible to finish up some more adult tasks, and then last night I remembered that it has an online Nintendo WFC play mode I hadn’t even tried.

I’m still not exactly sure how the “Birthday Challenge” mode works.  It claims you’re only playing people who have the same birthday as you, but give than that the odds of someone who owns the game being online at any given time are about 0.3%, say for an /average/ of 30min per week per owner, and the game has a projected maximum sales in the neighborhood of 330k, that would be 990 people online at any given time.  That’s using a projected maximum sale number, we’re currently well short of that.  Assuming an approximately even distribution (not wise, but hang with me on this one), that gives you about 3 people with your exact birthday online at any given time. Last night I played for a little while and each time I started a new game I played a totally different person than previously, three unique individuals in a row.  Is this a random assignment?  Or did the system track who I’d played and serve up someone else.  Regardless, it sure seems unlikely I’m only playing folks with my exact birthday.  I’m sure they’re fudging on the numbers to make it happen.  Especially when the game first launched and there were less than 100 players online at any given time.

Posted by Jordan on Monday, September 10th, 2007 at 2:35 pm.