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I've no interest in the Diablo series, but am I the only one who hates streaming as a measurement of success? It's like the gaming media equivalent to when journalists report on Xitter hashtags... it's just the easiest, dumbest metric available.
Probably because companies do their best to hide most metrics of purchases and players. Remember when some smart fella used the hyper accurate steam achievements to be able to derive how many people owned a game? Steam patched that out and now the best metric is based on number of review scores but that depends on the game, genre and score rating etc...
Diablo is on Battle.net, not steam. There's no way to see player count, and viewer count does typically corelate to player counts. It's not one-to-one, but it isn't useless.