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iloveoof
12 Posts
According to rankedftw.com, the API reported 316,000 games played yesterday. If this is accurate, that would be 7% more players than the previous peak of 295,000 games played in last June. Despite Blizzard all but abandoning SC2, the game seems to be going strong. And just a tiny bit of attention from Blizzard has brought tons of players back. | ||
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Obamarauder
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Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
But hey, I'm ready to be proven wrong | ||
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Beelzebub1
1004 Posts
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112StaminaX
37 Posts
I dont think its getting stronger, i just think we have the base of people in the game right now that need to be there to carry on the strength and meta development we need. | ||
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12129 Posts
On April 08 2021 09:19 iloveoof wrote: According to rankedftw.com, which has admittedly had problems with Blizzard's API being broken recently, the API reported 500,000 games played yesterday. If this is accurate, that would be almost 70% more players than the previous peak of 300,000 games played last June. The previous peak was due to the start of a new season. Despite Blizzard all but abandoning SC2, the game seems to be doing better than ever. Better than ever? Have you heard about Wings of Liberty numbers?  | ||
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Sim999
39 Posts
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Kabasos
6 Posts
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renaissanceMAN
United States1840 Posts
On April 08 2021 16:56 deacon.frost wrote: Better than ever? Have you heard about Wings of Liberty numbers? Share em! I don't remember how many games were being played at the time, but I sure as hell contributed a bunch of 2v2 and 3v3s with stupid reaper rushes. | ||
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12129 Posts
On April 09 2021 00:11 renaissanceMAN wrote: Share em! I don't remember how many games were being played at the time, but I sure as hell contributed a bunch of 2v2 and 3v3s with stupid reaper rushes. IIRC the population at the end of HotS was 250k 1v1 players world wide, LotV start brought us to 220k, WoL was over a million. Can't tell the number of games, don't remember. Nowadays the population of 1v1 of the world is 63k. Like if I compare WoL times and nowadays, I can wait over a minute for a pop. I never waited more than 2s in the prime time for a match back then. Maybe we can ask RFTW to show the whole history? Because unfortunately the grapsh were not saved in the time machine  (and the page has data from 2013 IIRC) Like if I didn't spam so much, maybe I would be able to find my old post were I quoted the numbers at the end of HotS, but, well | ||
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Haku
Germany550 Posts
On April 09 2021 01:54 deacon.frost wrote: IIRC the population at the end of HotS was 250k 1v1 players world wide, LotV start brought us to 220k, WoL was over a million. Can't tell the number of games, don't remember. Nowadays the population of 1v1 of the world is 63k. Like if I compare WoL times and nowadays, I can wait over a minute for a pop. I never waited more than 2s in the prime time for a match back then. Maybe we can ask RFTW to show the whole history? Because unfortunately the grapsh were not saved in the time machine (and the page has data from 2013 IIRC) Like if I didn't spam so much, maybe I would be able to find my old post were I quoted the numbers at the end of HotS, but, well The population right now (63k) should just be people that played 1 ranked game. So not really accurate to count the playernumbers on the first day of the new season if i am not mistaken? | ||
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Ben...
Canada3485 Posts
On April 09 2021 01:54 deacon.frost wrote: Nowadays the population of 1v1 of the world is 63k. Keep in mind that the season just started so there's likely to be a lot of folks that haven't done their placements yet so the current population number on RankedFTW is not necessarily accurate. It's already increased another 6000 since you posted, for example. There are likely to be a lot of folks who only play on the weekend too so we'll see a lot of placements done then as well. According to RankedFTW, at the end of last season (so Monday), there were 275544 ranked teams (which means accounts since it's 1v1) in 1v1. You can actually break down the numbers by season on RankedFTW (change the x-axis from All to Season Last). They do show that last season was not a great season in terms of total accounts or games played compared to previous seasons but this is likely due to several factors including the initial covid lockdowns massively boosting the season 1 and 2 of 2020 numbers along with last season being the first season in a very long time not to have any new maps. | ||
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12129 Posts
On April 09 2021 03:04 Ben... wrote: Keep in mind that the season just started so there's likely to be a lot of folks that haven't done their placements yet so the current population number on RankedFTW is not necessarily accurate. It's already increased another 6000 since you posted, for example. There are likely to be a lot of folks who only play on the weekend too so we'll see a lot of placements done then as well. According to RankedFTW, at the end of last season (so Monday), there were 275544 ranked teams (which means accounts since it's 1v1) in 1v1. You can actually break down the numbers by season on RankedFTW (change the x-axis from All to Season Last). They do show that last season was not a great season in terms of total accounts or games played compared to previous seasons but this is likely due to several factors including the initial covid lockdowns massively boosting the season 1 and 2 of 2020 numbers along with last season being the first season in a very long time not to have any new maps. It doesn't mater that much, since the middle of HotS or sometime like that the number is around 250k +-. WoL was over a million. So the best day ever already was. Which was my point  | ||
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
But yeah to add to what everyone else said, nothing beats the numbers when normies played WoL. You can even see the rapid acceleration and deceleration of users on this site by looking at TL thread numbers around New Year's Day for each year: First thread September 2002 2003: 1311 (+1311) 2004: 10045 (+8734) 2005: 22124 +(12079) 2006: 35324 (+13200) 2007: 48175 (+12851) 2008: 64492 (+16317) 2009: 85142 (+20650) 2010: 108985 (+23843) 2011: 181089 (+72104) 2012: 299324 (+118235) 2013: 390916 (+91592) 2014: 439656 (+48740) 2015: 474398 (+34742) 2016: 501163 (+26765) 2017: 517818 (+16655) 2018: 530001 (+12183) 2019: 540338 (+10337) 2020: 554157 (+13819) 2021: 567547 (+13390) | ||
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Crozo64
64 Posts
On April 09 2021 04:01 deacon.frost wrote: It doesn't mater that much, since the middle of HotS or sometime like that the number is around 250k +-. WoL was over a million. So the best day ever already was. Which was my point Wtf you dont know what you are talking about mate sorry. the number you mention is always low at the begining of a season, the more the season last the more players u have, in lotv u have some season at 500k+ players so your point is completely false. ( and sure Wol was probably peak sc2 in term of player population but we dont have the data for this, rankedftw didnt exist back then ). The stats games per days is a good indicator of activity that's why the author of this post mention it. | ||
Fecalfeast
Canada11355 Posts
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/mkrf79/annoying_meta/ | ||
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iiztuztutzfgh
1 Post
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12129 Posts
On April 09 2021 07:01 Crozo64 wrote: Wtf you dont know what you are talking about mate sorry. the number you mention is always low at the begining of a season, the more the season last the more players u have, in lotv u have some season at 500k+ players so your point is completely false. ( and sure Wol was probably peak sc2 in term of player population but we dont have the data for this, rankedftw didnt exist back then ). The stats games per days is a good indicator of activity that's why the author of this post mention it. And that's why I responded that I don't remember the numbers of the games per day back from 2013 and that it was better in wol no matter what. edit> imma not saying these numbers are final, or w/e. But that population is way lower. Population is actually quite stable for a dying dead game I know what i;'m talking, stop being aggressive and read what i wrote. It doesn't matter what are the numbers now, WoL was way bigger. There's a reason why Blizzard broaden MMR search at least once, there's a reason why now it takes longer to serch for a game All I'm saying is that if this is the best day ever, then the OP never saw how it looked back in WoL. And maybe even earlier HotS (RFTW was in hots, FYI)Edit 2> probably should have worded it better though. That's on me. | ||
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CatheadSC2
26 Posts
Happy with the new maps. This is also happy. | ||
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