Battlefield 3 is a perfect example.

[Slimebeast]

Barozi said:

Slimebeast said:

Reasonable said:

Slimebeast said:
http://bf3stats.com/

Right now as I write it says total number of players is 192,000 (of which 65,000 are PC players). Isn't that a bit low? I think Halo (in its prime) and COD typically has 4-500,000 players online simultaneously. Can somebody confirm this?

time of day (and time of year) matters in those numbers.  I'd say they seem alright in general the few times I've looked on the site.  You need to check at both prime EU and US playing times to get the peak picture.

Well it's up at 98,000 for X360 now. Did America wake up yet?

I think the time difference between central Europe and the East coast of the US is 6 hours. So should be around 1pm now in New York.

Okay. It's 109,000 for X360 version now (325,000 in total, not bad).

I wish I had my new PC now so I could play BF3.

Barozi, do you remember we played Bad Company 2 and how I was all run and gun while you sneaked far behind sniping?