Yesterday saw the launch of the season of the drifter. Here are the daily player population numbers: PVE - 563k PVP - 213k That’s it if you just want the data. For context this is the daily population from last Sunday March 3 2019: PVE- 606k PvP - 280k That’s if you just want the data. -My impression of the Data is that players are not happy with the direction of the franchise and are not coming back for the launch of new endgame content. Replies to Frequently Used Nonsense Comments In Threads Like This: F.U.N.C.I.T.L.T 1. Player rates always fluctuate and are down when there is a content drought and shoot back up when new content is released. - This shows the opposite. More people playing on a day at the end of content drought at the end of a poorly received season than on a reset day that included a large update and new content release. 2. More people play on weekends than week days - Typically this is true, but reset days also pull the highest numbers in a week. Content launch days are also traditionally much much higher. The problem is that you can’t have it both ways. If I post weekend numbers I hear “more people play during the week around reset and then stop when they have all their milestones done so the weekend numbers are lower”. If I post reset numbers I hear “more people play during the weekend than a weekday because they have school and work during the week and more free time to play games on the weekend”. Which is it? 3. That’s just one day of numbers... - Yep. 4, ... so they don’t mean anything. - Not really, it means that less people played yesterday than did on Sunday. That has ramifications for the new season. 5. The player population will come back up when new content is released. - It didn’t. It might still improve steadily over the next month. We can’t know that right now. All we know right now is more people played at the end of a drought than on the first day new content came out. They didn’t even need to spend significant time to get counted. Just log in to see what new stuff there was. 6. Where did you get these numbers? - These are the worldwide all platform player statistics pulled from the Bungie API on public websites. PVE comes from Destinytracker.com and PVP from Guardian.gg. They aren’t perfect but they are the best data publicly available. Also just a heads up I understand that things change over time. I’ve been recording daily player rates for a while, and I’m going to compile them and release them all together a few weeks into season of the drifter so if the population starts going up over the next couple weeks I will Be including that. TLDR[spoiler]The numbers weren’t a spike up because we content was released.[/spoiler]