PoE population?

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Imaginaerum a écrit :

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anubite a écrit :

Concurrent players is a fickle thing. EVE cycles between 20k and 60k and it has 400~k active users. EVE is the only game I know of to post stats reguarly.

PoE is a f2p title so I'd say it easily runs 20-60k concurrent users based on time.

Runescape's got the stats all the time. If that game of all games has close to 70,000 every day then Path of Exile could easily have tens of thousands

runescape is kind of a bad game to compare stats to though. Games been around since 2001 and is honestly far more well known then POE is, since POE is a niche of a niche genre.

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Splift a écrit :

6k players on steam was the peak today and if I had to guess steam players are a small % of the total players since there is no reason to use steam drm with this free game and it had tons of players before it was out on steam.

Actually, Steam is the biggest PC platform now, and I think most avid PC gamers do use it these days. This means that many gamers are already Steam users, so playing it through Steam comes naturally (I switched to the Steam version at release).

There are some advantages (and no downsides if you use Steam anyway):

- No need to type in the password.
- No confirmation emails when your IP address changes.
- Automatic instant updates even if you are not playing at the moment.
- Integrated Steam community features.
- Steam trading cards (can be sold, which makes MTX cheaper).
- Steam achievements, if you like them.
- All your games centralized in one interface and directory structure.

I'd speculate that many OB players did switch to Steam when PoE became available there, but that's just opinion. I don't think it's a small percentage, however. Only GGG knows for sure and they won't give us numbers for understandable reasons.

I doubt they will say just like d3 never said but instead quote thier 12m sold number. I bet more ppl are playing PoE though. For awile I couldnt even find a pub in diablo.

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DirkAustin a écrit :

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Razegul32 a écrit :

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DirkAustin a écrit :

Why bother about something like this? GGG has to care how many play not us.

I just love the statistics behind things.

That said, 40k feels way, way too large.

I think of all registered around 100k actually play at any given time.

Really? well, maybe its just how the instances work that i never really feel like there are are a lot of people playing.