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Given the interest shown in other threads concerning the popularity / well-selling of SC2 in Korea, I thought it might be interesting to keep track of the number of active accounts (via sc2ranks.com). It's been a week and a half since release, so unfortunately I do not have data for earlier time periods. We'll just have to keep track now and see how long it takes to hit random milestones!
August 12
Total: 873,344, Russia: 25,915, Taiwan: 53,218, SE Asia: 40,036, Europe: 247,433, Korea: 105,475, NA: 391,789, Latin America: 9,478
Proportions aren't too bad for Korea I suppose. There's about 40% as many Korean account as there are European, and if we assume for a moment that distinct buyers to account is approximately 1-to-1, then that's not bad given the population difference. Latin America seems to be really low on the account number though. Wonder what could be the cause there?
August 16
Total: 1,023,119, Russia: 31,202, Taiwan: 68,028, SE Asia: 47,222, Europe: 288,684, Korea: 128,315, NA: 447,599, Latin America: 12,069
The number of ladder playing users exceeds 1 million! It appears that the random smaller regions are still rather unpopular... especially that of Latin America. North America is still way ahead, and actually gained more users since the last update than any other region. Last time it appeared that only 40-50% of users at most played ladder and thus appear on sc2ranks, if you believe Blizzard's numbers for the number of copies they sold in the first 3 days, or whatever short time period they used. If that proportion still holds, then they should now have recouped the gigantic $100million cost of SC2.
IT'S OVER 1.5 MILLION!!!
On September 07 2010 18:44 Dionyseus wrote:Today the population has crossed the 1.5 million mark! Total: 1,505,101, Russia: 48,265, Taiwan: 104,171, SE Asia: 70,858, Europe: 430,516, Korea: 213,214, NA: 617,614, Latin America: 20,463 Europe seems to be growing the fastest, North America a close second, Korea third. Russia, Latin America, Taiwan, and South East Asia seems to be increasing slowly, with Latin America seemingly growing slightly faster out of that group. source: http://www.sc2ranks.com/
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Cool thanks 
I think a lot of Latin Americans are opting to buy NA version
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what am i not getting here? how can the total be "only" 873k if blizzard offically announced that they sold more than 1.5 million copys within the first 48 hours?
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yup, I bought NA, and I'm from southamerica
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aren't in these ranks just payers wo are playing "actively" in the ladder?
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On August 12 2010 23:41 Enox wrote:
what am i not getting here? how can the total be "only" 873k if blizzard offically announced that they sold more than 1.5 million copys within the first 48 hours?
Because this is probably based on sites like rts-sanctuary and sc2pf or whatever, which can only get information from the community site, which only shows players who have played placement games/play multiplayer.
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I'd be very interested in weekly updates of this.
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On August 12 2010 23:45 stafu wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2010 23:41 Enox wrote:
what am i not getting here? how can the total be "only" 873k if blizzard offically announced that they sold more than 1.5 million copys within the first 48 hours? Because this is probably based on sites like rts-sanctuary and sc2pf or whatever, which can only get information from the community site, which only shows players who have played placement games/play multiplayer.
Yes I believe we're limited to people who have completed their placement matches for at least one bracket. Hopefully over time more and more people do...
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the way we gather data is largely by crawling through the ladders of players that we have found so we are limited to people who have been placed in a ladder to discover them. We can also gather profiles from forums etc but this doesn't seem to help much any more. I haven't really relied upon people entering urls since the first week of gathering ladder data.
Also I would expect that a fair proportion of those who buy the game may never even go online and be placed in a ladder
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Conclusion: for now around 600k+ people (40%) work mostly on single player / custom games / practice league (50 matches) / achievements etc, and have not been placed --- plus, some of those who have been placed have not been crawled by the websites yet.
I won't be surprised if at least around 10-20% "never" get placed - at least in Beta I noticed (to my surprise) quite a lot of people prefer to just play custom games and not get into the ladder at all, ever.
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On August 13 2010 00:09 figq wrote:
Conclusion: for now around 600k+ people (40%) work mostly on single player / custom games / practice league (50 matches) / achievements etc, and have not been placed --- plus, some of those who have been placed have not been crawled by the websites yet.
I won't be surprised if at least around 10-20% "never" get placed - at least in Beta I noticed (to my surprise) quite a lot of people prefer to just play custom games and not get into the ladder at all, ever.
That's not so surprising. I never really liked the actual Warcraft 3 game, but there were some nice custom maps for it (DotA, Island Defense, some tower defense maps, etc.) so I played those a lot but never really played competitively.
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on the other hand some ppl played only using guest passes and there are ppl who bough more than one SC2.
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On August 12 2010 23:35 Superiorwolf wrote:Cool thanks I think a lot of Latin Americans are opting to buy NA version
This
I cannot stand spanish translations, they are horrible, it simply doesn´t sound right. That and in my particular case I´ll rather pick an US server just beacuse it is a bigger base of players, so you can find lots of games at any hour (western/central/eastern times)
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On August 13 2010 00:30 Juaks wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2010 23:35 Superiorwolf wrote:Cool thanks I think a lot of Latin Americans are opting to buy NA version This I cannot stand spanish translations, they are horrible, it simply doesn´t sound right. That and in my particular case I´ll rather pick an US server just beacuse it is a bigger base of players, so you can find lots of games at any hour (western/central/eastern times)
You can translate everything on the game to any published language including hotkeys, sounds and cinematics.
Latin American players should play in Latin America, the level isnt bad at all, and playing here is the only way blizz is gonna take us serious.
I will have EU and NA eventually, but right now i will stick with LA 6 months for less than 30 bucks.
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Brazilian here, playing on US server. I don't like translations, and I don't want to play a 3v3 against the same team 5 times in a row.
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Korea has a different system for "buying" SC2, and Russia also has a rent-to-own kind of thing.
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do not forget that many people play single player only.
not having made your placement matches -> not in the rankings i think
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Pretty nice stats to now, even if it's just to fill our curiosity
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So dose this mean non-Koreans are no longer called Foreigners because we have a higher population?
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