Hold your horses!
When watching twitch streams I see the online lobbies of EE and can open Voobly and Gameranger to compare them. Gameranger alone has more players than EE, same goes for Voobly. Playercount drops hard for Voobly&Gr in the european morning hours but even then about 3 games are waiting for players, not sure how EE is doing.
I recently calculated the active players browsing using the Voobly numbers.
Voobly shows: All games waiting, all games being played and all players in lobby. 62% of the guys in lobby where playing, 38% were just lurking, chatting or afk. Voobly also links players to their running twitch accounts so you can just start watching a game which is being played and chat with people there.
Gameranger shows: All games waiting, all games being played. So I calculated from that numbers up how many where online to compare, but I forgot that.
EE shows only the games waiting. No games being played, no players afk or a chatting lobby for everyone to spamm "JOIN ROOM 36 BLOODSPORT OR ZELDA" like Voobly. So looking at 3-8 games waiting the EE lobby looks very sad. The best thing about EE is Quickmatch where you get matched to a player of similar rank to play ranked on a random map. U dont know who you are playing against or which god he picked until it starts.
Voobly also has Blindpick mode by default, where you cant see which gods are being chosen in the game. Also you can just host a room with a mod active and everyone joining autodownloads that mod and you play with it, but when joining a unmodded room it deactivates again.
Yesterday I played on Gameranger with 3-6 players scenarios for hours. The Village of Nowhere by tasterix with 3 to 6 players, the tower defense with 3 to 4 players, and my latest scen with 3 players. Not sure if you'd find players for this kind of stuff so fast on EE. I think EE but also the game in general has a much wider singleplayer base than multiplayer community. Just look at heavens downloads where you can put hundreds of mods on your game which makes it impossible to play online.
Voobly is more competitive and has its own ELO rating, so seperating noobs from pros is faster there. Also the ELO on Voobly is quite old and deflated, so Voobly Elo is worth more than EE Elo. One player said he'd be easy above 2k on EE but remains 1.7k on Voobly.
[This message has been edited by Izalith (edited 02-15-2018 @ 09:41 AM).]