I dont know why people are so interested in performance and stats lol. Must be a Steam thing. People like AdamApple and others are obsessed over seeing this fail lol
Same reason people care about review metas. Sustaining player populations is a somewhat better metric than review scores for online games and determining whether to even bother playing or not as well as provide a playerbase to seek consistent revenues from.
Like it or not … it’s what matters if the game is even supported more than year, if at all.
Without players these games won’t even function properly.