Steamdb: Feb 13th - Civ 6 active players: 33734 vs Civ 7 active players: 34972

[civlateintothenights]

One positive would be that maybe this pushes forward the release of official modding tools...

 

[bbbt]

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Thread '[SURVEY] T.J. from PC Gamer here doing a story on why Civ 5 still has more active steam players'

Feb 2, 2018

Even a year after the release of Civ 6, Steam and Twitch still say Civ 5 is the more popular game. Fill out this short survey to help us learn why and feel free to leave a comment!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/K5RD7RW

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• AsaTJ
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https://www.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/5iuuq2/civ5_now_has_more_active_players_than_civ6

 

[8housesofelixir]

It is also worth noting that the number of active players of Civ 7 did not increase much after the formal release.

("rel" means the release date)

Which suggests that most of the players playing right now are still pre-order players rather than base version players (and by extension, most of the discussions about the game are still dominated by pre-order players).

The larger player base hasn't kicked in just yet, and for every Civ game, it would always take a fairly long time - usually years - before the new game to overtake the old.

 

[gdr_willter]

It is also worth noting that the number of active players of Civ 7 did not increase much after the formal release.

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("rel" means the release date)

Which suggests that most of the players playing right now are still pre-order players rather than base version players (and by extension, most of the discussions about the game are still dominated by pre-order players).

The larger player base hasn't kicked in just yet, and for every Civ game, it would always take a fairly long time - usually years - before the new game to overtake the old.

I think we can also consider the pre-order players who quit or refunded. Anyway it shows one of both possibilities:

1. Almost of early players already pre-ordered, and large part of pre-order players decided to keep going with Civ 7.

2. Maybe some of pre-ordered players quit playing, but standard players filled the population.

It do not show the potential players waiting solid reviews, so this can't be the final conclusion.

 

[Siptah]

It is also worth noting that the number of active players of Civ 7 did not increase much after the formal release.

View attachment 719686
("rel" means the release date)

Which suggests that most of the players playing right now are still pre-order players rather than base version players (and by extension, most of the discussions about the game are still dominated by pre-order players).

The larger player base hasn't kicked in just yet, and for every Civ game, it would always take a fairly long time - usually years - before the new game to overtake the old.

In addition to this, I think we have to wait for the weekend to see whether we get a new peak. I assume most people that were very eager to play as soon as possible bought an early access edition. Hence, the Tuesday release didn't come with a big swing - only the players that wanted to play as fast as possible but did not (or could not) get early access. It doesn't include the "Oh, the Guardian said there's a new civ game. I'll get that." crowd yet. I don't think we'll see 6's release peak replicated, but I could imagine 10k-20k more than we had at release.