How's the Population on PC?

[K33n3r]

This game is very active on Playstation, just wondering how things are going for the PC master race

[FleshyBB]

Good at the start, question is if people stick with it and that's usually no. SC6 had a fair amount of players at its start too, but now it's pretty low. That said, maybe Strive will hold numbers like SF, MK, and some of the more popular ones do. Here's hoping.

[Ignus]

Originally posted by ☻☻:

2nd biggest fight game release of all steam

I wish, but GG Strive is third.
Second is MK 11 with 35K.
First is DBFZ with 44K.

[KayJay]

As of today. PC player base had 138098 users that at least played 1 online match while PSN (PS4 & PS5 combined) had 82172 which is more than 50k less which makes sense since on Playstation there is still a paywall to play online.

[Emerald Lance]

Originally posted by ele:

Originally posted by Vizzledeezy:

Yes it does matter. The more players there are, the more likely there will be one in your region (aka with a good connection) at a similar level.

1 other player isn't much use if we have a 500ms ping and are at completely different skill levels...

That's why you play fighting games with people you know...

What world have you been living in for the past 25 years? Playing fighting games in arcades has always been all about fighting people you don't know so that you can vet better. Playing against the same small pool of people over and over again won't lead to improvement.

Anybody who's serious about fighting games woukd laugh at you for that suggestion.

[HighLanderPony]

"Recently playing" has seen an over 50% drop off since release. Peak has seen an over 33% drop off since release. In less than a week.

[Jello Man™]

I'm not sure if I should say "Still more than (Insert Older GG game)" to ride on the "Guilty Gear Hardcore Fans" trashing the game or be serious and point out not only how hard of a sell fighting games are to people who aren't already into them, but also that a lot of games on Steam have legendary drop offs because people buy a game they'll play for 2-3 hours and never pick up again. Even if the average drops down to a thousand or two that's still enough to keep it going for a long time. People still play AC+R, and that peaks at like 200 people tops these days.

[Hiimjustdavid]

Originally posted by Lusuki:

Does anybody know how many are playing on Playstation?

This is VERY anecdotal, but Sajam and I are from the West Coast, and when I was watching him in our timezone of around the afternoon, he was on the PS5 version and on the east coast region because the West Coast region on Celestial Rank was near empty, but the East Coast Region was decently full, but for me on PC also in Celestial Rank, the West Coast and East Coast lobbies were nearly full.

not to mention the Big GG Strive Community Discord has assigned roles and there are way more PC players in that Discord, in the Community Discord there were 5k PS Players and 12k PC players,

again with no hard numbers on Console vs the PC it's all just speculation.

[KayJay]

Originally posted by DavidUmehwarez:

Originally posted by Lusuki:

Does anybody know how many are playing on Playstation?

This is VERY anecdotal, but Sajam and I are from the West Coast, and when I was watching him in our timezone of around the afternoon, he was on the PS5 version and on the east coast region because the West Coast region on Celestial Rank was near empty, but the East Coast Region was decently full, but for me on PC also in Celestial Rank, the West Coast and East Coast lobbies were nearly full.

not to mention the Big GG Strive Community Discord has assigned roles and there are way more PC players in that Discord, in the Community Discord there were 5k PS Players and 12k PC players,

again with no hard numbers on Console vs the PC it's all just speculation.

I actually listed the hard numbers a few posts above.

[Hiimjustdavid]

Originally posted by KayJay:

I actually listed the hard numbers a few posts above.

interesting, how did you get those specific numbers? Steam Chart's shows [all time/24hr peak and Concurrent] but the numbers you listing are "at least played 1 online match"

how would you go about finding those numbers?

[KayJay]

Originally posted by DavidUmehwarez:

Originally posted by KayJay:

I actually listed the hard numbers a few posts above.

interesting, how did you get those specific numbers? Steam Chart's shows [all time/24hr peak and Concurrent] but the numbers you listing are "at least played 1 online match"

how would you go about finding those numbers?

Network > Ranking > "Total Win Count Ranking"
On PSN there are over 50k less players listed than on PC.

[Emerald Lance]

Originally posted by DavidUmehwarez:

Originally posted by KayJay:

I actually listed the hard numbers a few posts above.

interesting, how did you get those specific numbers? Steam Chart's shows [all time/24hr peak and Concurrent] but the numbers you listing are "at least played 1 online match"

how would you go about finding those numbers?

You get an achievement for going online, so you could check how many people got that achievement.