You don't need a player count to know that PL is declining...just log into the game, and check out on-going instances happening at any given time.
There was a time when a couple of guildmates and I decided to do an experiment...the drill was to log in the game for at least an hour spamming refresh on instances in all dungeons and towns just to get a ballpoint estimate on the number of people online at that particular time (with screenshots)...we did this for maybe two months...just logging on a random time and day, refreshing, and listing down the total number of unique games and towns we could find, by the time our experiment ended, we compared figures, and we all ended up with a smaller figure. IIRC, this was somewhere between Nuri and Mt. Fang.
We did this because at that point, many of our guildmates were already thinking of quitting, and we wanted to prove to them that the game is, in fact, still alive and well, we wanted to change their mind by providing a graphical trending of the behavior of PL's population (one of their reason for quitting is they feel population was declining, we wanted to prove them wrong)...after coming to the discouraging conclusion to our experiment, we ended up quitting ourselves...and a lot of our members migrated to Order and Chaos...some of us who were already PC MMO gamers decided to just leave mobile MMOG for good and just stick to the tried and tested Guildwars 2
I think STS not releasing this information validates our earlier conclusion. We did that a couple of months ago, I wonder what the results would be today. I logged in the game lately, without even going through the same experiment, I already know, the game is in a much worse state compared to the time we did our experiment just looking at the number of on-going games. Before, there were still several on-going games at lower levels (not all), last time I checked, almost nobody is running the lower levels...and the amount of on-going instances in higher levels is not even that many compared to before (maybe even less)...
TL DR? Discouraging numbers that's why this info will never be shown.
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