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Gamespy used to have a page which would list most the popular online PC games and it would list how many people were playing at that very moment. I enjoyed looking at that page but it for the last 4+ months has been down. The page says it will come back eventually but I am not sure if this stat tracking is even possible anymore since gamespy does not have access to a lot of the servers. Are there any other sites that do this?

I thought of this imparticular because I just fired up COD:WaW, a game I like better than COD4 and I only saw a few servers that were populated. I played this a few weeks ago and there was a huge difference. Have all the people really gone to MW2?
 
It wouldn't surprise me considering launch week player numbers exceeded counter strike on steam. If you're not seeing many servers I'd suggest just double checking there wasn't a patch you missed since newly patched servers will stop showing on the list (I think)
 
Check out the Steam Stats for some info (click "view steam players per game" to see the breakdown), it's a great resource for these questions. Judging by those, WaW has been totally eclipsed but just about every other game on the list. At the moment, WaW only has 183 players online, versus MW2 (multiplayer only, the single and multi are split) which has 58,278 players online. Add another 11k players if you include single player.
 
You have to take into account that only a small percentage of players bought Call of Duty: World at War on Steam so they don't appear on the list and the list only shows concurrent players, not total players.

This is a more accurate player number for CoD:WAW. Around 27,000 players in the last 24 hours.
http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?game=codwaw

Call of Duty 4 has had 250,000 players in the last 24 hours.
http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?game=cod4&vars=

Counter-Strike dwarfs both with 1,000,000 players in the last 24 hours.
http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?game=cstrike&vars=

600,000 players for CS: Source.
http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?game=cstrike2&vars=
 
The Steam stats site is pretty cool but as the previous person said, it probably is not 100% accurate (but then again, I did not think the Gamespy site was accurate either since I am not sure they could differentiate bots from humans). Anyway, I fell back playing COD2 which I still play once in a while and it had a lot more players than COD5 yet it is not listed. This seems to prove that only players who bought it through Steam are on the list.
 
Einhanderkiller said:
You have to take into account that only a small percentage of players bought Call of Duty: World at War on Steam so they don't appear on the list and the list only shows concurrent players, not total players.

This is a more accurate player number for CoD:WAW. Around 27,000 players in the last 24 hours.
http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?game=codwaw

Call of Duty 4 has had 250,000 players in the last 24 hours.
http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?game=cod4&vars=

Counter-Strike dwarfs both with 1,000,000 players in the last 24 hours.
http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?game=cstrike&vars=

600,000 players for CS: Source.
http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?game=cstrike2&vars=
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Are those cumulative? The Steam stats are live playing stats, so are not comparable. Also, does game-monitor include Steam player stats (considering MW2 requires steam)?

Moral of the story is that none of these stats sites are ever going to be even reasonably accurate, but I believe it's safe to say that most people have moved on from WaW. Just take a peak at the sales figures, and I think that tells the story quite well.
 
Steam doesn't tell you unique players per day, it only tells you the maximum online at one time. Pretty weak if you ask me.
 
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