Someone on the Albion subreddit realized that the toplist can be used to measure the player count, since every activity is generating “fame”, so the number of active characters is equal to the final position on the toplist. Of course there are alt characters, so player count is even lower, but at least this gives an impression.

I picked up the torch and kept recording the data. Here is the final chart:



Well, it’s not too rosy. But why did I stop two weeks ago? Because the devs realized this usage of the toplist and changed it to only show the top 10K players:



This was on the week that ended on Dec 10. Since then another week passed, so I’ve checked the toplist again and the #10K player has 163131 Fame. That’s not a huge decrease, but it’s a decrease, so we can assume that the playerbase keeps shrinking.

When the devs of a game no longer report or try to hide the player activity, they are practically accepting defeat and just try to win time till the inevitable end.

Week Dec 24: 143031

Dec 31: 125520

Jan 7: 144078

Jan 14: 121500?