Keep in mind this will be a outdated post, because people joining will change the total of people, so @windshifter1’s comment and other info will also become outdated as more players join
There are 13722 full pages of users, each with 36 users per page. Plus 3 users on the last page (at the time of this comment)
That makes 493,995 total users. Last page
I found 6 devs on “What’s Next?” So adding 6 to 493, 974 is 493, 980 so counting devs players and normal mods we have 493, 980 and I bet the number will get greater when a new player joins
Hmm... let's get a very rough low estimate of the number of active players because I'm up too late and feel like doing this. Incredibly approximated math, GO!
SteamDB gives a player peak of roughly 200 per day over the last several months, so we'll use that as our baseline. If we assume that 50% of active players launch the game on any given day (a total guess, but it seems fairly plausible), we can double the SteamDB average to 400. 400 people seems like a fair estimate for the number of active players on Steam, in my opinion.
Now, if we assume that Steam players make up 25% of the total number of active players (based on the fact that of the 20 current Hot aircraft, 5 were built on Windows), that brings the total count of currently active players to somewhere in the ballpark of 1600 to 2000 people, which - for a fairly niche game that's closing in on its ninth year - seems like a reasonable number. Remember, that's my approximation of the number of currently active players, not the total number, or the number of accounts (active or otherwise) on the site, or such. And it's only an approximation.
There's a lot of problems with this model (not all Windows players play on Steam, the only number that isn't an assumption or guess is the SteamDB player average, etc.) and I'm not really looking for corrections to it because of that. I have no idea whether that number is even remotely accurate or not, I just thought it would be interesting to have a go at it instead of doing normal person things like sleeping.
Thats total though. You have to subtract the devs. Doing that would be very difficult though because they are not grouped at the top, but scattered over the place.
493 974 User to be exact. I counted how many users per page (36). Then, using the url I change it to page number 10 000. Through time consuming searches I found that there were 13 721 pages, plus 18 users on the last page. The equation is 13 721 x 36 + 18 which equals 493 974. And there is your answer.
Keep in mind this will be a outdated post, because people joining will change the total of people, so @windshifter1’s comment and other info will also become outdated as more players join
@windshifter1 so then minus 6 from the set
There are 13722 full pages of users, each with 36 users per page. Plus 3 users on the last page (at the time of this comment)
That makes 493,995 total users.
Last page
@Pilotgoose No, my original number of 493 974 included devs already.
I found 6 devs on “What’s Next?” So adding 6 to 493, 974 is 493, 980 so counting devs players and normal mods we have 493, 980 and I bet the number will get greater when a new player joins
Where do I look for devs? Announcements from devs?
Great, time to count devs, (I think devs need their own page)
@HuskyDynamics01 Wow thats nice calculations, approximately. Mine was exact but doesn't show the activity of the players.
Hmm... let's get a very rough low estimate of the number of active players because I'm up too late and feel like doing this. Incredibly approximated math, GO!
SteamDB gives a player peak of roughly 200 per day over the last several months, so we'll use that as our baseline. If we assume that 50% of active players launch the game on any given day (a total guess, but it seems fairly plausible), we can double the SteamDB average to 400. 400 people seems like a fair estimate for the number of active players on Steam, in my opinion.
Now, if we assume that Steam players make up 25% of the total number of active players (based on the fact that of the 20 current Hot aircraft, 5 were built on Windows), that brings the total count of currently active players to somewhere in the ballpark of 1600 to 2000 people, which - for a fairly niche game that's closing in on its ninth year - seems like a reasonable number. Remember, that's my approximation of the number of currently active players, not the total number, or the number of accounts (active or otherwise) on the site, or such. And it's only an approximation.
There's a lot of problems with this model (not all Windows players play on Steam, the only number that isn't an assumption or guess is the SteamDB player average, etc.) and I'm not really looking for corrections to it because of that. I have no idea whether that number is even remotely accurate or not, I just thought it would be interesting to have a go at it instead of doing normal person things like sleeping.
@Pilotgoose 5 mins
@windshifter1 Bruhhh, How long did that take?
Thats total though. You have to subtract the devs. Doing that would be very difficult though because they are not grouped at the top, but scattered over the place.
493 974 User to be exact. I counted how many users per page (36). Then, using the url I change it to page number 10 000. Through time consuming searches I found that there were 13 721 pages, plus 18 users on the last page. The equation is 13 721 x 36 + 18 which equals 493 974. And there is your answer.
@TheCommentaryGuy oh god this will take days
start counting