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CryptoKnightsGG
Profile Joined January 2021
20 Posts
February 13 2021 11:38 GMT
#1
Hello

I can't seem to find a straight answer to the question of

*How many people play Starcraft2* or how many monthly


The closest I found is one website that shows how many ranked teams there are. But a ranked team can have 5-20 players or something?


Any solid stat on this number? Out of sheer curiosity.


Thanks

InfCereal
Profile Joined December 2011
Canada1759 Posts
February 13 2021 12:20 GMT
#2
https://www.rankedftw.com/stats/population/1v1/#v=2&r=-2&sy=c&sx=a

This is 1v1 ranked teams. Which would be 1 player, so world wide you're looking at around 500k accounts per season
Cereal
warnull
Profile Joined February 2016
United States280 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-02-13 12:47:06
February 13 2021 12:38 GMT
#3
One way to discern the daily active users is to count the number of games played per day (provided by rankedftw), and divide that by an assumed number of games the average user will play in a day.

Right now there are 1.21m ladder games played per day across all game modes (1v1, 2v2, etc), weighted by the number of players in each game mode. If we assume that an average active user plays 5 games per day then that translates to 240k daily active users.

As an rough estimate, there's another 250k co-op players, so 500k daily active players total.
Chris_Havoc
Profile Joined August 2016
United States600 Posts
February 13 2021 13:27 GMT
#4
If you're looking for something to the equivalent to Steam Stats, Blizzard doesn't provide that and never has.

Ranked FTW is the closest we can get to a "solid stat" on the active player population.
Owner of the SC2 Esports Anthology channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SC2EsportsAnthology
MinixTheNerd
Profile Joined July 2019
200 Posts
February 13 2021 13:50 GMT
#5
You wouldn't get an accurate number under any circumstance anyways cause with the F2P feature, people often have multiple smurf accounts and thus heavily inflating the actual player count.
Devangel
Profile Joined March 2019
Russian Federation66 Posts
February 13 2021 14:08 GMT
#6
On February 13 2021 21:38 warnull wrote:
One way to discern the daily active users is to count the number of games played per day (provided by rankedftw), and divide that by an assumed number of games the average user will play in a day.

Right now there are 1.21m ladder games played per day across all game modes (1v1, 2v2, etc), weighted by the number of players in each game mode. If we assume that an average active user plays 5 games per day then that translates to 240k daily active users.

As an rough estimate, there's another 250k co-op players, so 500k daily active players total.


Should not the numbers be higher because there are also people who play unranked 1v1 and etc and rankedwtf only counts ranked games?
CryptoKnightsGG
Profile Joined January 2021
20 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-02-13 15:01:13
February 13 2021 14:14 GMT
#7
On February 13 2021 21:38 warnull wrote:
One way to discern the daily active users is to count the number of games played per day (provided by rankedftw), and divide that by an assumed number of games the average user will play in a day.

Right now there are 1.21m ladder games played per day across all game modes (1v1, 2v2, etc), weighted by the number of players in each game mode. If we assume that an average active user plays 5 games per day then that translates to 240k daily active users.

As an rough estimate, there's another 250k co-op players, so 500k daily active players total.



half a million? Thats a lot. I know dota is like 600k peak players daily. DotA ***With 11 million active users or something
CryptoKnightsGG
Profile Joined January 2021
20 Posts
February 13 2021 14:14 GMT
#8
On February 13 2021 22:27 Chris_Havoc wrote:
If you're looking for something to the equivalent to Steam Stats, Blizzard doesn't provide that and never has.

Ranked FTW is the closest we can get to a "solid stat" on the active player population.


yeah that doesnt exist, would be nice
CryptoKnightsGG
Profile Joined January 2021
20 Posts
February 13 2021 14:17 GMT
#9
On February 13 2021 21:20 InfCereal wrote:
https://www.rankedftw.com/stats/population/1v1/#v=2&r=-2&sy=c&sx=a

This is 1v1 ranked teams. Which would be 1 player, so world wide you're looking at around 500k accounts per season


why does it say teams and not players then?
Legan
Profile Joined June 2017
Finland555 Posts
February 13 2021 15:06 GMT
#10
On February 13 2021 23:17 CryptoKnightsGG wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 13 2021 21:20 InfCereal wrote:
https://www.rankedftw.com/stats/population/1v1/#v=2&r=-2&sy=c&sx=a

This is 1v1 ranked teams. Which would be 1 player, so world wide you're looking at around 500k accounts per season


why does it say teams and not players then?


Probably just to keep the format same with others and archon mode also exists. The game probably treats them as teams of players regardless of what format it is actually.
Creator of Gresvan, Tropical Sacrifice, Taitalika, and Golden Forge
CryptoKnightsGG
Profile Joined January 2021
20 Posts
February 13 2021 17:03 GMT
#11
On February 14 2021 00:06 Legan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 13 2021 23:17 CryptoKnightsGG wrote:
On February 13 2021 21:20 InfCereal wrote:
https://www.rankedftw.com/stats/population/1v1/#v=2&r=-2&sy=c&sx=a

This is 1v1 ranked teams. Which would be 1 player, so world wide you're looking at around 500k accounts per season


why does it say teams and not players then?


Probably just to keep the format same with others and archon mode also exists. The game probably treats them as teams of players regardless of what format it is actually.


Right that's confusing me. So is it multiple or single?
ProTech
Profile Joined November 2010
United States440 Posts
February 13 2021 18:19 GMT
#12
With the free to play model it's virtually impossible to know how many people are playing, I myself have about 20-30 different accounts I rotate through ( not actually 20-30 accs but i play on on all three servers and you get 1 acc per server )
CryptoKnightsGG
Profile Joined January 2021
20 Posts
February 13 2021 20:07 GMT
#13
On February 14 2021 03:19 ProTech wrote:
With the free to play model it's virtually impossible to know how many people are playing, I myself have about 20-30 different accounts I rotate through ( not actually 20-30 accs but i play on on all three servers and you get 1 acc per server )



ah
CryptoKnightsGG
Profile Joined January 2021
20 Posts
February 13 2021 20:42 GMT
#14
By twitch #'s id say 2 million play
-NegativeZero-
Profile Joined August 2011
United States2142 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-02-14 01:48:27
February 14 2021 01:46 GMT
#15
On February 13 2021 23:14 CryptoKnightsGG wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 13 2021 21:38 warnull wrote:
One way to discern the daily active users is to count the number of games played per day (provided by rankedftw), and divide that by an assumed number of games the average user will play in a day.

Right now there are 1.21m ladder games played per day across all game modes (1v1, 2v2, etc), weighted by the number of players in each game mode. If we assume that an average active user plays 5 games per day then that translates to 240k daily active users.

As an rough estimate, there's another 250k co-op players, so 500k daily active players total.



half a million? Thats a lot. I know dota is like 600k peak players daily. DotA ***With 11 million active users or something

600k at the same time, which will always be a much lower stat than total daily players. if sc2 has 500k total daily players, the daily peak is probably like 50k
vibeo gane,
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26235 Posts
February 14 2021 02:13 GMT
#16
Regardless of how we’re estimating those numbers seem pretty decent. I’ve been putting off making my ‘glorious’ return to playing for quite some time but really should get on to doing so!
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
-NegativeZero-
Profile Joined August 2011
United States2142 Posts
February 14 2021 02:56 GMT
#17
in-game stats currently say there are 9,430 games being played and 13,634 people in chat channels on the NA server. assuming most, but not all, games are 1v1, that's a total of roughly 35k on NA at peak NA time. add the lower number from the other servers and a daily peak of 50k seems pretty reasonable.
vibeo gane,
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