I would assume that the player count is dropped badly

[Splashbang-21371]

@AlDreg-1739

They were just bragging about 100,000,000 players.

But that certainly is overshadowed by the following statements from Blizzard.

100 million players are all accounts created from release until the announcement, not active accounts.

@Cnflagration-1760

How is it not a healthy number? That is just a small percentage of the pc playerbase, and then all the console gamers on top.

For a F2P game like OW2, it’s not healthy numbers… FFXIV is not F2P, it’s a subscription based MMORPG. Stop mixing the two business models.

@Prett-1169

You can make assumptions, but you can also just look at the objective stats on Steamdb. It’s maintaining a pretty steady 30-40k players, which is actually higher than previous seasons. There isn’t a decrease happening.

I’m not making assumptions. I’ve worked in marketing and sales, so this is something i have quite a firm grasp on.

It’s fluctuating, heavily, but at the same time, the peaks are dropping and the dips are dropping as well, which means it’s bleeding players and not retaining players, which is the main goal for any game, especially F2P games, because they need to retain players in order to sell items from the cash shop. Each peak last for 1-2 hours during peak hours, then it drops to the lowest point real fast. Each dip lasts for several hours.

@RobotWizard-116887

So, they give you proof that the player base is going up on Steam

Proof that the player base is rising on Steam? No, it’s not. It is definitely not rising. It’s dropping with each peak and dip.