Are we destroying "our own" game?

[Nothv13]

Wrong on literally both counts lol

You need to stop looking at simply monthly peaks.

25 days out from early access Endwalker was peaking at around 62k

25 days out from early access DT is peaking at around 50k-55k

Official release of EW saw a fall from 95k to 86k, just under 10k
Official release of DT saw a fall from 92k to 72k, right at 20k

DT yesterday peaked at 46k yesterday. Endwalker took until mid Jan to get that low.

[Kiurt]

You need to stop looking at simply monthly peaks.

25 days out from early access Endwalker was peaking at around 62k

25 days out from early access DT is peaking at around 50k-55k

Official release of EW saw a fall from 95k to 86k, just under 10k
Official release of DT saw a fall from 92k to 72k, right at 20k

DT yesterday peaked at 46k yesterday. Endwalker took until mid Jan to get that low.

Steam Charts has stayed consistently representative of the wider playerbase in terms of growth and fall-off trends and updates every few minutes off of the steam concurrent player counter. We can't get true full-playerbase numbers and likely never will but for getting an idea of what the growth trends are you can't get much better without having access to Square Enix data directly.

Endwalker, end of an arc building for 10 years
Game being hyped by streamers right before release
WoW Shadowlands existing

Dawntrail being an ARR like expansion with a slow build up and talk to Wuk Lamat (pray return to the waking sands btw) that annoyed more than one.
New WoW expansion coming soon, after all the praise Dragonflight got...
Game not that much hyped by streamers (and a bald man) as before.

Yup, you can't trust steam charts before there's so many outside factors to take into account than just reading numbers.