Are there any official statistics about ESO players population?

altemriel

Are there any official statistics about ESO players population?

How many people play the game, how often, how many new people are comming, increase, decrease over time....

Jitterbug

Don't think there is.
I have seen some guesstimates on here, but never any concrete numbers.

ladyonthemoon

What I would like to know is how many players are online in the area my character is at the time. Something like "Five hundred players are currently in Stonefalls within a 1024 radius from your character."

Elsonso

ladyonthemoon wrote: »

What I would like to know is how many players are online in the area my character is at the time. Something like "Five hundred players are currently in Stonefalls within a 1024 radius from your character."

500 sounds about right, although we don't know for sure. Less than that and the zone is under populated. More than that and we can't tell.

Sausage

Steam, it shows like last 2 week there has been 35k player. I'd triple that so ESO is somewhere around 100k player, because Steam was launched 4 month after PC-launch so not all are there.

lathbury

id say more are not on steam then are on it . my guild of 400 plus less than 25% are on steam a small sample granted but maybe do a poll of how many are using steam vs not.

SorataArisugawa

I know nobody who plays the game with steam... All people I talked about bought it normal

Belidos

SorataArisugawa wrote: »

I know nobody who plays the game with steam... All people I talked about bought it normal

Well there are at least 35 thousand of them who do according to steams stats, you just haven't met any of them yet

Suicidal_Godot

lathbury wrote: »

id say more are not on steam then are on it . my guild of 400 plus less than 25% are on steam a small sample granted but maybe do a poll of how many are using steam vs not.

...absolutely.

Steam players are only a small subgroup, for sure. But...

...polls are predicted to +/- less than a percent accuracy based on interviews of only a few thousand individuals. So, while the Steam numbers definitely are not representative for the absolute total player count, they can be reasonably assumed to be somewhat correct regarding trends and development.

Also, there always is the option to "flush Steam from your ESO sytem" - i.e. launch the .exe directly. Quite some people use Steam only as an online shop front end, many of which might hence do so. Others (like me) also appreciate the social aspect, keeping up-to-date with who of your buddies comes on, chatting and arranging appointments with them, etc. Those will keep launching ESO via the Steam Library, and keep appearing in the Steamcharts player count.

TL;DR: Steamcharts figures are no indicator at all for total ESO population. They are almost certainly mirroring gamewide trends accurately, though.

Digielf

ESO has more than 400 million players, now for Elder Scrolls series in general its probably 3,5 billion half of planet earth

Digielf

Suicidal_Godot wrote: »

lathbury wrote: »

id say more are not on steam then are on it . my guild of 400 plus less than 25% are on steam a small sample granted but maybe do a poll of how many are using steam vs not.

...absolutely.

Steam players are only a small subgroup, for sure. But...

...polls are predicted to +/- less than a percent accuracy based on interviews of only a few thousand individuals. So, while the Steam numbers definitely are not representative for the absolute total player count, they can be reasonably assumed to be somewhat correct regarding trends and development.

Also, there always is the option to "flush Steam from your ESO sytem" - i.e. launch the .exe directly. Quite some people use Steam only as an online shop front end, many of which might hence do so. Others (like me) also appreciate the social aspect, keeping up-to-date with who of your buddies comes on, chatting and arranging appointments with them, etc. Those will keep launching ESO via the Steam Library, and keep appearing in the Steamcharts player count.

TL;DR: Steamcharts figures are no indicator at all for total ESO population. They are almost certainly mirroring gamewide trends accurately, though.

Steam players arent a small subgroup, Steam is the largest gaming network that exists and the time that ESO came to Steam it automaticly means that the game will never die no matter how many years pass

terrordactyl1971

I would have thought there are more on Playstation Network and Xbox Live than Steam. PS4 alone has sold 27 million units in less than 2 years, that's not counting PS3, Xbox360 or Xbox1

Ace_of_Destiny

MMO Publishers usually don't openly share player population...because they never want to admit when people leave the game.

Tandor

Ace_of_Destiny wrote: »

MMO Publishers usually don't openly share player population...because they never want to admit when people leave the game.

Nice try, but it's actually because of legal restrictions relating to such things as market sensitivity. These sorts of things usually only get a mention when annual reports are published, such as the current news about SWTOR's major subscription growth which has been detailed as part of EA's financial returns.

Korah_Eaglecry

Sausage wrote: »

Steam, it shows like last 2 week there has been 35k player. I'd triple that so ESO is somewhere around 100k player, because Steam was launched 4 month after PC-launch so not all are there.

Steam is still a very good sample. Id wager 100k is probably on the more conservative side of estimates for PC. Theres no telling where ESO stands on PS4/Xbox. My anecdotal experience on PS4 so far makes me think atleast on the EP side of things that the game is thriving. Ive started numerous new characters recently and areas like Bleackrock, Bal Foyen and Davons Watch are heavily populated in the evenings and mildly populated through out the day. The game only feels empty as youre questing because of the lack of communication since many have either moved their VOIP over to Group/Guild or turned it off completely.

lathbury

Korah_Eaglecry wrote: »

Sausage wrote: »

Steam, it shows like last 2 week there has been 35k player. I'd triple that so ESO is somewhere around 100k player, because Steam was launched 4 month after PC-launch so not all are there.

Steam is still a very good sample. Id wager 100k is probably on the more conservative side of estimates for PC. Theres no telling where ESO stands on PS4/Xbox. My anecdotal experience on PS4 so far makes me think atleast on the EP side of things that the game is thriving. Ive started numerous new characters recently and areas like Bleackrock, Bal Foyen and Davons Watch are heavily populated in the evenings and mildly populated through out the day. The game only feels empty as youre questing because of the lack of communication since many have either moved their VOIP over to Group/Guild or turned it off completely.

thats what im saying 100k is very conservative as anectodal evidence we are seeing is that the majority of pc eso players arent steam accounts.

Suicidal_Godot

Tandor wrote: »

Ace_of_Destiny wrote: »

MMO Publishers usually don't openly share player population...because they never want to admit when people leave the game.

Nice try, but it's actually because of legal restrictions relating to such things as market sensitivity. These sorts of things usually only get a mention when annual reports are published, such as the current news about SWTOR's major subscription growth which has been detailed as part of EA's financial returns.

...and there's a significant increase in the subscritption / player figures.

FTFY.

Asherons_Call

The only ones with the true figures would be ZOS. Maybe they post this report on public record somewhere