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naventus
Profile Blog Joined February 2004
United States1338 Posts
May 11 2011 20:12 GMT
#1
The main screen reports 500k people on BNet.

How many are SC2 players? IIRC, numbers were ~20-40k for TFT, less for D2+BW.

But it only reports 2-3k ongoing SC2 games in the NA region, which makes me think that a lot of the 500k comes from WoW. So unless WoW doesn't count for BNET numbers, I'm not sure SC2 numbers are particularly impressive.

hmm.
Kralic
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada2628 Posts
May 11 2011 20:15 GMT
#2
It is the middle of the afternoon. Any game see's this at this time of day(for your area/timezone).
Brood War forever!
jimmyjingle
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States472 Posts
May 11 2011 20:23 GMT
#3
i'm also curious! For years i thought the 12 million were active subscribers to wow, but it turns out that's probably just total anyway.

so im curious how big sc2 is compared to mw2 and stuff!
I get brain like a skull
Tschis
Profile Joined November 2010
Brazil1511 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-11 20:35:45
May 11 2011 20:35 GMT
#4
I think that if the numbers were great enough, Blizzard would make it public.

So I guess SC2 isn't really as big as MW2 (active people at the same time)
"A coward is not someone that runs from a battle knowing he will lose. A coward is someone who challenges a weak knowing he will win."
disco
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Netherlands1667 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-11 20:52:50
May 11 2011 20:51 GMT
#5
According to SC2Ranks.com there are about 3 million SC2 accounts. And then there's still a lot of people who don't ladder. You'd say the currently online number should be a bit higher.
this game is a fucking jokie
emythrel
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United Kingdom2599 Posts
May 11 2011 21:54 GMT
#6
On May 12 2011 05:23 jimmyjingle wrote:
i'm also curious! For years i thought the 12 million were active subscribers to wow, but it turns out that's probably just total anyway.

so im curious how big sc2 is compared to mw2 and stuff!


WoW is counted in active subscriptions, doesn't mean they all play at the same time or every day.... I had my WoW account active until march, even tho I had barely played since last august.
When there is nothing left to lose but your dignity, it is already gone.
[N3O]r3d33m3r
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany673 Posts
May 11 2011 23:16 GMT
#7
funny topic, the xxxxx players online number IS the current number of all sc2 players, not diablo 2, not warcraft 3, not wow, ONLY sc2.

amount of games being played in your region is your region only, total amount of games is obviously total amount of games worldwide
elmizzt
Profile Joined February 2010
United States3309 Posts
May 11 2011 23:37 GMT
#8
On May 12 2011 05:23 jimmyjingle wrote:
i'm also curious! For years i thought the 12 million were active subscribers to wow, but it turns out that's probably just total anyway.

so im curious how big sc2 is compared to mw2 and stuff!

The number blizz gives for wow IS active subscribers.
d=(^_^)z
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