How many people are playing Warzone in May 2024? Player count revealed
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1st May 2024 16:44
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Thousands of players are still logging into Warzone every single day
- The player numbers are trending slightly upwards from May compared to April
- Warzone has jumped one spot higher in the Twitch charts this month
If you are curious about how the Warzone player count is doing with Season 3 Reloaded now here, I've got a full rundown of the main facts and figures for May.
The Call of Duty battle royale offshoot is among the most popular in the genre, with the game seeing large numbers of players jumping on all the time. It's currently on its second version, which launched with MW2 in 2022, and while aspects like the best weapons have changed, has the player count changed much?
Warzone daily player count in May 2024
For a look at the daily player count, the best bet is to look at the SteamCharts.com figures, which show a daily average of 86,872 players over the past 30 days, with a peak player count of 165,756.
Click to enlargeThese figures are up by around 12%, which is likely due to the decent reception of Season 3. It saw plenty of new content added, including the anticipated return of Rebirth Island. As of writing this, Season 3 Reloaded is set to begin, so it's likely that these numbers will either hold steady or increase slightly further again going into May.
I find Steam is the best gaming platform for tracking the concurrent player count of games, as the database allows anyone to track the exact numbers. Unfortunately, Battle Net, PlayStation, and Xbox do not disclose player data, so we can only look at the Steam data.
Due to MW2, MW3, and Warzone sharing the same Steam app, we also don't have an exact figure on the split between the three games.
Back in Warzone's (WZ2) release month of November 2022, the title saw a concurrent player count of 250,000 to 480,000.
Warzone monthly player count in May 2024
Click to enlargePinpointing the exact player count of Warzone is impossible as Xbox, PlayStation, and Battle Net do not release the data. However, we can get rough figures from ActivePlayer.io - though these should be taken with a grain of salt.
According to the site, over the past 30 days there has been an average of 59 million players, with a daily peak of 16 million. These numbers are roughly the same as last month, with the playerbase remaining fairly stable.
Warzone Twitch viewership in May 2024
Click to enlargeTwitchTracker.com gives us good insight into Warzone's streaming viewership, with the game having an average of 43,587 viewers over the past seven days, ranking as the 8th most-viewed game on Twitch - that's one position up from last month.
Warzone is always one of the higher-viewed games on the platform, which is largely down to the high number of channels which stream the game.
What is the all-time player count peak?
At its all-time peak on Steam in November, Warzone reached a staggering 488,897 concurrent player count.
It's safe to assume that significant numbers of players were playing through Battle.Net or on consoles, meaning the true number is likely much higher.
Is Warzone a dead game?
Whether Warzone and MW3 are dying is a question that's regularly asked by members of the community. While we can only go off Steam data, it is clear that WZ's player count is holding steady for now, which doesn't mean it's dying necessarily.
It's still one of the most-played games in the world, but the tumultuous release of Modern Warfare 3 does seem to have put some people off COD in general.
While these numbers constantly go up and down, it's relatively normal for a multiplayer game to see this type of volatility in its population.
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