How many active players does Heroes of the Storm have? [closed]

Since I can't find it anywhere, either because Blizzard doesn't share these numbers or no one cares enough to write about it, I wonder how many monthly active players does HotS currently have?

Is it really dying as everyone says?

Solution 1:

As of September 2018, there were 6.5 million monthly active players.

But I assume that you meant to include 'now' in your question, in which case it is impossible to know as Blizzard doesn't publish that data.

However, we can guesstimate it with third party data collection sites like HotsLogs. I have calculated that in the US region alone, at least 20,500 players have played 1 or more Quick Match games in the past month (and at least 10 or more in total). You can check that by counting the number of players in every league. If we multiply that for every region, we can estimate that there are at least 100,000 players every month.

Given that only people who upload/use the site will be included in the data, and people who have played less than 10 matches / only play the other modes do not get included in the data, I think that the actual number is several times higher. But we can only guess the actual number.

Comparing that to League of Legends with 80 million monthly active players, it might seem very few, but I would say that it is far from 'dying'.