Bungie actually do publish player stats via the Destiny API. Destiny Tracker often shows 1m daily players, split roughly 50/50 between crucible and over. It’s crazy how popular Destiny still is! But hey, gotta get those raids done every week!

Yea, this is the live team. The people on the streams about the spring update have mostly been introduced as live team members. Last week’s stream also had someone from the sandbox team to talk about overall balance changes.