| JaggedSac said: According to Steam, and I will have to check this out later in the day, L4D only has this many people online right now: Currently Peak
I really wish Valve would give actual sales numbers. |
18k average at any part of the day is actually quite big. No one plays the same game everyday (except MMOers), and there's people that quit on the game or haven't been playing it recently, and others that are playing it offline. Also the average L4Der probably doesn't play more than 2 hours each time.
It's hard to imagine 18k can translate into millions, but if we compare to Quake Wars it would make more sense. At the same point in it's lifetime as L4D is right now, Quake Wars PC probably had around 300k sales and 11k logged throughout the day.
Now think about it: 11k a day translates to 300k... now imagine atleast 11k playing L4D at all times. If the average gamer aplys 2 hours, then:
(18,000 players x 24 hours) divided by 2 hours = 216,000 people on L4D every day... and if 11k is to 300k sales, then 216k is to 5.9 millions sold of L4D on PC.
This is not an estimation of L4D's sales. I only used it to as a way to show the magnitude of L4D on PC.
