So this game blatantly lies about number of users online, right?

[Bard]

Saying 4348 people online, in 52 games.

52 games with 15 people each means 780 of people are in a game. Are you really telling me only 18% of people are actually in a game? What are the rest doing?

[Glerk]

Did you forget people afk'ing at the main menu? People waiting in queues for matches?

[Flavorable]

Also, lobbies are not counted as games, so it's solely counting the active games.

[Bard]

Originally posted by Glerk:

Did you forget people afk'ing at the main menu? People waiting in queues for matches?

It's statistically impossible for 80% of the users to be waiting in a queue for a match. You also get kicked out of the main menu after 10 minutes of AFKing.

And for what it's worth, 18% of players actually being in a game is a pretty high percent. It's usually closer to 10%. I don't believe that 90% of users are just so amazed by the MTX that they spend so much time browsing the store.

[CornPuffBuddha]

Steamcharts lists the game as having about an 807 player daily peak, but you have to factor in mobile and web players as well.

[Yecats]

My boyfriend noticed this the other day. I think something is off with their measuring. There's no way 4000 players are waiting in lobbies. Also the statistics in general are off. I got an achievement the other day for successfully protecting myself as BG, but the actual stats never updated for the same thing, still shows 0. It also shows invalid results for visiting vet, for killing non-town as veteran, etc. I know I have done these things. And the 'leaderboard' for vet killing evils, for instance, says the top leaders have done it 7 times. I know it has to be a lot higher than this.

[Scyobi_Empire]

There are 2 servers, 3 platforms (2 but PC has 2 versions), AFK, Private Lobbies, people stuck in a custom lobby waiting for it to fill up, people waiting to click find game at the right time to join a Streamer, people in matches and people in Ads.

[Dankan37]

Originally posted by Scyobi_Empire:

There are 2 servers, 3 platforms (2 but PC has 2 versions), AFK, Private Lobbies, people stuck in a custom lobby waiting for it to fill up, people waiting to click find game at the right time to join a Streamer, people in matches and people in Ads.

About custom mode I remember it filling up fast even back in 2015, something has shrinked

[CornPuffBuddha]

Originally posted by Dankan37:

Originally posted by Scyobi_Empire:

There are 2 servers, 3 platforms (2 but PC has 2 versions), AFK, Private Lobbies, people stuck in a custom lobby waiting for it to fill up, people waiting to click find game at the right time to join a Streamer, people in matches and people in Ads.

About custom mode I remember it filling up fast even back in 2015, something has shrinked

Game has been bleeding players at a fairly natural rate. It's an old game, not that uncommon.