You have to realize, the game was so hyped up that every casual gamer bought a copy. I know of several people (girls in fact) who actually started playing before my copy even arrived from Amazon.

These players aren't gonna stick around for long. They'll finish normal, and find better things to do. The numbers were always gonna drop.

The only argument you can make is that xfire represents the more 'hardcore' gamers. If you ask me tho, I think xfire really represents the online FPS, CoD generation. No PvP? Endless grinding? They're gonna lose interest fast and go back to getting frags.

You can infer that the numbers have dropped. Everyone knew that it would. What you can't actually say for certain is how big the numbers have dropped. Only Blizzard knows, and it's up to them whether or not to release those numbers.

Fun fact: my friends list still has 10+ people playing every day. No change from release.

Once a deadweight, always a deadweight.