“Estimates seem to suggest that Diablo 4 has around 4 million active monthly players but Diablo 3 still has around 3 million”
These active player numbers was discussed in an interview with Rod.
Insane D3 player numbers!
We need new D3 patches. Blizzard please.
Source: An interview in “videogameschronicle”
PS: I am not able to post the interview link here
I posted this on reddit, but will post my response here as well:
I’d take these numbers very lightly.
Is the 3 million correct as far as who has started Diablo 3 sometime within a month? Probably. But one of the nice things about the console version of the game is that you’re not capped at the top 1000 players for the leaderboards. You can browse it all if you want. And I take captures of all 3 consoles by the end of the season. What I learn is that roughly 80% of the players never even make it to Level 70.
But the console is not the PC you say. Surely more people would play the PC and be better players on the PC. I honestly don’t think so. All 3 consoles tend to be within a close range of each other with progression. We’re also fortunate enough with Diablo 4 that the game is on Steam as well and can compare those stats.
So, let’s compare Steam and the PS5 for a second for Diablo 4.
What you end up seeing is the numbers are pretty close. So, Diablo 4 has 4 million active monthly players, yet only 668k have even reached the end game, and this is throughout the entirety of the game’s life, not just the season. Correction, that would be 1.6 million players for the entirety. I misapplied monthly and the entirety of Diablo’s player base. But it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s similar stats per season.
The console versions of Diablo 3 have roughly 800-900k players per season. And with Diablo 4, it was 1/3rd console, 2/3rds PC, and if you apply that ratio to Diablo 3, it comes out to roughly slightly under 3 million.
So, Diablo 3 seems to match up well with Diablo 4 in terms of player count, and player accomplishments, at least on the consoles. The PC is unknown, but with everything else being similar, I can’t see why this would be any different.
So, the question really becomes, how do you define player? And if you’re looking for people who have even cleared a Greater Rift 70, I think you’ll find that suddenly, you’re looking at only a couple hundred thousand players.
And this is one of the reason why games get that power creep and become easier. Because most people are in a bubble and think that most players are like them, when honestly, what they define as casual players are probably still within the top 10% of all players.
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/features/interviews/interview-blizzard-on-the-future-of-diablo-4/
Speaking of the wait between Diablo 3 and 4, we obviously don’t get the internal data you guys have, but estimates seem to suggest that Diablo 4 has around 4 million active monthly players but Diablo 3 still has around 3 million. If that’s accurate, is that a problem? Or are you just happy to have people playing Blizzard games, and if so would you hope they eventually move over to Diablo 4?
It was estimation, not from Rod Fergusson himself but then he didn’t debunk any of those claims, I guess it should be around there. Well then, until he said otherwise, I guess it is good news for D3 players to hear and worth celebrating IMO.
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No we dont.
New seasons sure, the d3 devs have done an amazing job s18-30, but the core game would not change for the better. The core game today is fine. If they added team members to update the core, in today’s world we all know what would be the focus and it would not be gameplay 
. lookup Concord game if you need guidance.
I’d guess about 30k tops… you look at the activity that POE has with measurable numbers that is 10-20x higher than anything this sub has had in the last month. For 2 weeks there was no new posts besides a couple mentally ill folks and crying about the PTR. If the same 5 crybabies stopped posting about people “cheating” at a single player game that doesn’t matter you could see 3-4 months here with zero new topics or posts.
It’s time for a new DLC to extend support and get it out of maintenance mode or a Diablo 3 Resurrected
It’s a disgrace that we don’t already have the ability to add top surgery scars to our characters! The number one thing gamers want in every game (all gaming journalists agree…) and they’ve just ignored it.
Maybe because PoE is a live service game that still receives updates regularly while D3 is nothing but a B2P maintenance game?
What you feared can be found in D4. 