FYI: PoE 1 Queue counter

Just an FYI for those people who like to know things accurately, there's a zero percent chance that the queue counts on console are accurately reflecting the number of people currently waiting for the league to start with the game open.

The Playstation count is up over 62,000, and only counts upward, even though I know (through my friends list) that many people have given up and turned their game/system off.

I assume that the system running it only ever issues "new" numbers, until the queue is reset, and so, every time someone leaves the queue for a little while and rejoins long enough later (maybe 1 minute?), it assigns them a new (higher) number.

I personally noticed the counter go up by 200 in the span of 1 minute, more than 7 hours after the league was supposed to go live, and there's literally no way that's "real", nor is it possible that there are 62,000 people actively waiting in the queue right now on Playstation.

I know, not super relevant to anyone, but just for the people who were thinking "wow, the console player base got HUGE for this league, probably because of PoE2"... maybe, but probably not. Most of those numbers are just people re-entering the queue.

The "real" number is probably around 30k, because we hit that before the launch was supposed to happen, IIRC.

You’re definitely correct, it’s just the same 5k of us constantly refreshing haha, hopefully the current maintenance will get us going. God speed exiles