>>536348625
Either tell everyone to play the Steam version at the same time or tell pirates to actually buy the game.

You take a look at the Unique Downloads of a mod that is a necessity for a lot players to use that's had a recent update, and you can potentially get a pretty good idea of how many players are actively still playing a game despite their numbers not all contributing to the Steam Charts. In Starfield's case, it's player base on PC is still in the tens of thousands, possibly more since not everybody is modding their game.