Population Discussion

I am very interested in seeing the player base numbers comparing legacy d2 versus d2r. If the data isn't publicly available does anyone have a feel for which version contains the greater player count?

Thinking longer term about future seasons and ultimately, if the game remains popular for another 20 years.

Its cross-platform. That makes a HUGE difference.

I can't give you any sort of official population information but I can share the total number of people who've chosen platform-specific roles on a couple of public D2R discord servers which can give an indication of player distribution. Bear in mind that both servers allow people to choose multiple roles.

Sever 1
PC - 13,003
PS - 903
NS - 776
Xbox - 607

Server 2
PC - 30,489
PS - 5,338
NS - 4,448
Xbox - 3,013

D2R numbers greatly surpass LoD numbers on Bnet, pretty much the main/only reason for most people to pick LoD over D2R is for private servers which D2R doesn't have (yet).

There's a very small few diehards that stay on LoD for PvP (with their 20+ years of accumulated Wealth and pre-patch/bugged items) or because they don't like the D2R changes (or just didn't want to switch), but yeah. It's not comparable.

Thanks for the replies. I forgot about the huge modding component of LoD and the cross-platform nature of D2R!