Blizzard has released some fun and interesting Hearthstone statistics from 2020, including confirmation of the active player count!
- 23,539,539 - The number of active players worldwide in Hearthstone in 2020.
- Players spent 669.2 million hours in Battlegrounds.
- Demon Hunters played 489.4 million matches in all modes.
- Mozaki is the most player Duels hero and we saw a total of 61.42 million Duels matches played.
- Arena had 291.4 million matches played.
- Tavern Brawl is almost as popular as Arena with 271.2 million matches played.
It's great to finally see some data from Blizzard and Hearthstone! Read on for the post and a short infographic.
Quote From Blizzard Together, in the Year of the Phoenix, we drove back the rusted legion in Ashes of Outland, graduated with top honors from Scholomance Academy, and conquered our fears of carnival rides (and ancient horrors of unspeakable evil) when Madness at the Darkmoon Faire set in.
We kicked off the year by overhauling our Ranked system, updating card packs to include duplicate protection, and introducing Hearthstone’s first new class since launch—the Demon Hunter.
Throughout the year we hosted several in-game events, including the Felfire Festival and Masquerade Ball. We released over a dozen balance updates between our major releases, and completely revamped our progression and rewards systems.
We brought Pirates, Elementals, and the Old Gods to Battlegrounds—along with multiplayer parties and Darkmoon Prizes! We told the origin stories for Jaina, Rexxar, Garrosh, Uther, and Anduin in Hearthstone Book of Heroes. We released Hearthstone’s first Mini-Set, the Darkmoon Races, and launched Duels, a new game mode for Dungeon Run fun against other players. Finally, we hosted four community Inn-vitationals and crowned a new world champion, Kenta “glory” Sato, on the Hearthstone Masters Tour!
It’s been a journey unlike any other. In a time when we’re a little more spread out than usual, seeing Hearthstone continue to bring people together online around the world has warmed our hearts in a way we never expected. Thank you for spending the Year of the Phoenix with us!
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Well, I don't believe the number is accurate. It's most probably the number of people who has played at least a single match in any game mode, not the amount of true active players. It's the new alt account you made to try out China meta and will abadon after a season; it's that guy who reinstalled the game out of nostalgia and played drunken Arena; it's that one person who tried BGs and didn't like it more than two days.
I am not saying HS is a dying game, but there's serious marketing behind these numbers.
Of course! Any public company that releases numbers is going to cherry-pick them in a way that makes them look good for the shareholders.
For the sake of argument, let's say that every active player was counted 3 times because they logged into NA, EU, and SEA during the year. That still gives us just under 8 million players that logged in and played for the year. There aren't any problems with finding games quickly, even with the playerbase sharded into all the different regions so I don't see a big problem with their numbers.
Hearthstone becomes problematic the day that it takes you a couple of minutes to find a match on the low end.
Though without a doubt we are no longer in the most popular period for Hearthstone. That time sailed ages ago. Players themselves don't matter much though if all the players playing are more engaged.