Not sure if I’m at liberty to share the numbers we see on live backend day to day, but I can post what I said earlier on Reddit as this line in the dev blog makes it seem like the amount of new players playing the alpha is larger than it is.
We were pretty open we sent out 10k keys pulled from who registered in our sign ups, of which the vast majority had 100+ hours, so the vast majority of those keys were players with 100+ hours. Whether they actually tested the game mode they signed up for and filled out the survey is a different matter entirely (activate your keys and do the surveys, folks!).
Brand new players, and players with lower hours have access to this game mode, too and it’s a playerbase we don’t get to hear too often from, so we felt it important to get their feedback as well, so we can make a game mode that works for veterans and new players.
This next alpha is open to all owners of V2, so if you didn’t get a chance to test or your worried veterans won’t be able to play, now’s your chance; participate in the upcoming one.
The survey is but one data point we pull from. We also have in-game stats, forums, discord, reddit, watching those who streamed. This isn’t just “new players” pulled into a vacuum
Whatever our top end option was on the sign up form is where the largest percentage of signups came from.