What Stan said. The 4000 mark is way off. 4000 people is basically the top of the melee community alone. I wouldn't be surprised if the number was around 30.000 people per region.
Maybe that is the total people viewing the main menu?
EDIT: Lol no, that is NOT lower than COD. COD has on average 13-30 thousand people per game variant, and there are like 25 game variants. (You know, capture the flag, free for all, etc)
Yes, some of the less popular variants may only have 5000, but if I remember correctly, domination has around 50000 people online. Not to mention that the community is split over what, 4 games now?
What Pshyched said. If you run a quick search, you'll find that the game has sold more than 4.5 million copies as of December last year. 30K a region with US, EU and SEA is laughably low for such numbers. It doesn't even make 100K, which isn't even 2% of total amount of people who bought the game. Assuming I didn't mess up my calculations.
Correct me if I am wrong here...
58,000 hours of top 2 maps on US bnet
3,800 players in my region online. Probably around 4k static through out the day.
Lets say 96,000 total hours consumed by all played online, including idling.
That leaves 38,000 hours for ladder, idling and other games. 60% of the population on bnet is playing only the top 2 games without ever idling.
@PSGMud: Go
There are definitely more players online than 4000, that seems way too low.
Great to be back and part of the community again!
What Stan said. The 4000 mark is way off. 4000 people is basically the top of the melee community alone. I wouldn't be surprised if the number was around 30.000 people per region.
3800 is what it says when you log in.
30k for a region is ridicules btw, thats better than CoD.
This is Blizzard Entertainment, 13 Million people play World of Warcraft...
@PSGMud: Go
Maybe that is the total people viewing the main menu?
EDIT: Lol no, that is NOT lower than COD. COD has on average 13-30 thousand people per game variant, and there are like 25 game variants. (You know, capture the flag, free for all, etc)
Yes, some of the less popular variants may only have 5000, but if I remember correctly, domination has around 50000 people online. Not to mention that the community is split over what, 4 games now?
Great to be back and part of the community again!
What Pshyched said. If you run a quick search, you'll find that the game has sold more than 4.5 million copies as of December last year. 30K a region with US, EU and SEA is laughably low for such numbers. It doesn't even make 100K, which isn't even 2% of total amount of people who bought the game. Assuming I didn't mess up my calculations.
I just logged in to B.Net and we have 750.000 people online here in europe (7:30pm) but 4000? That's ridiculous. Probably a display bug ...
P.S.: Are you sure you didn't mix it up with "About 4000 people in public channels"?
Even SEA has over 200,000 at any given time (During the day ofcourse).
Edit - And if each of those people played the same map for 30 minutes, it would equal 600,000 Hours... Lol
200.000 * 30 / 60 = 100.000 not 600.000 :P
I calculated it wrong :P