No shit . I don ' t believe it either <| sep |> Nice work , that was a great fight . Watch out for those injectors though , they are very moreish . <| sep |> Your comparison didn ' t take into account that the first dlc for ds 2 came out 3 months after release . Then another at 4 and the last at 5 months . That ' s literally the only reason there wasn ' t a sharp decline at that time . Even then the average playerbase didn ' t sharply rise back up . It stayed pretty much the same . It only just cancelled out the natural decline that occurs at 3 ish months for games . It was really smart timing to keep the game going consistently for the first 6 or so months but then again compare it to ds 3 and the playerbase is much higher at 6 and 7 months compared to ds 2 ' s . There is a drawback to both release approaches but to say ds 3 pvp is dead would grossly inaccurate .