This thought continues to bounce around my head as I continue to have very short QM queue times. There are usually around 170 people in general chat but how many active players are there?
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None of us knows, not as many as was, could and should.
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For sure, I am just curious.
We are legion!
As Kara said, nobody really knows. The US and EU servers are pretty healthy, but smaller regions only QM survives.
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and I say QM for me is a good judge as this is the mode I almost have exclusively played for my 7 years in HoTS, so that is why I mentioned the queue times being fast.
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There are more than one genchat and players are split across those rather than one filling up and then starting another.
If people want to try to estimate a populace, they could try plugging high-pop and low-pop games uploaded to parsers for a specific span of time, and then multiply that by 10 or so (10 players per game$ and then estimate if HP — or the like — get 5% of the games or whatnot.
It wont include ai or custom that way, but one can estimate thousands better than hundreds with it
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It used to tell how many was playing the game in real time but is now gone long time ago.
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For all the talk and whining of “No new characters” and “dead game” and such, i’m still enjoying the game as much as i ever did since i started playing 3 years ago.
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