So does anyone know if anniversary raised the population any? I was just curious. Also does anyone know the site to see current xbox live populations numbers and ranks? I saw the thing from major nelson for the end of october I can’t believe halo 3 is still in the top 15 that’s crazy. I was looking for current numbers tho.
Major Nelson has Xbox LIVE activity listing up every month. We’ll see how Reach/CEA has done by the end of the month.
I also have my own question for the community. Do players of CEA multiplayer show up on the MM people counter in Reach? I’ve been playing Reach while CEA is on its way in the post, and telling by the population numbers, no more than 2000 people are playing each Anniversary playlist. What’s up with that? Maybe people are enjoying CEA’s campaign that much.
Ok cool. Im pretty sure cea multilayer shows up as reach population, not sure about campaign. I do know im hooked on campaign and skulls right now only played a few mm games but after I collect everything its off to hang em high I go 
The population has not risen noticeably, and people playing Reach multiplayer from the CEA disc do count toward to total population count.
Don’t be surprised. A simple map pack and some gameplay changes aren’t going to increase the population. Hell, even bringing back the original Halo CE muliplayer wouldn’t do that. There are too many other games on the market.