yeah, the total playerbase of ds1 has declined by around 1k. maybe that's cus DSR made it so much more expensive to get into the game?
worth noting that prior to DSR's announcement, DS1 had an abnormally high number of players, probably because of the interest in the series drummed up by the closing of demon's souls's servers. after DSR was announced, DS1's popularity seemed mostly the same, maybe a little higher than normal at first
now if only we had stats across all platforms