It's not that hard to make a reasonable calculation of highly active players in D3 on a daily basis. You just need a char on each server, check all difficulties on all modes, soft/hc and game type (bounty, rift, grift etc) and if possible all quest in Campaign, double the number to include people who play in private games and that would be a good place to start from when trying to answer how many daily/weekly users D3 has.
I would say that assuming half the players are playing in public games and half are playing in private games is such a wild speculation that it would make this calculation useless.
Personally I'd guess it more like 95-99% in private games and 1-5% in public games .. but that speculation is just as wild as yours. :-)
Yeah, I don't know how many people are currently playing D3, but given its sales performance last year (both D3 and RoS top 10 sellers despite D3 being two years old by that point), it's clearly a lot.
If you're the sort of person who must be the best.. given the number of players, and given that we have region-wide leaderboards.. there is a very very very very good chance that you are not going to be anywhere near the best. If this is going to cause you problems - you probably should not even try to compete.
D3 was a game millions of people bought, played it for a week, beat it, and shelved it, just like any other consumable console game.
I would say that assuming half the players are playing in public games and half are playing in private games is such a wild speculation that it would make this calculation useless.
Personally I'd guess it more like 95-99% in private games and 1-5% in public games .. but that speculation is just as wild as yours. :-)
Where did you get these numbers from ?
I'm afraid I'm pretty sure his sources include his ass.
Vaximillian, you're absolutely right.
I know full well before making that post that he had no clue and would more than likely not reply back to me.
When people speak bull shit, the best thing to do is make them back up what they say.