I think the solution to that happened by people quitting.
Densities appear to be much lower now. Way back (2007ish)in arguments about ratios, some dude calculated based on map size and server cap, that 7:1 was the ratio to fear. Its too spongey to assume youll bump into 1.4 enemies on decent density servers.
Ratios are approaching retail relevance (none, for pvp) because of crz bgs. The pain for small pop servers will be the economy, lack of raids, and finding pvp targets to rank once they figure out that bgs are not enough around r10 to progress with sanity.
As you and I know, that Faerlina ratio of 7:3 is legit, but at least its more populated. I predict more alliance pvp will just transfer off to Heartseeker, Pagle, or alliance heavy servers.
Not only Mankrik and Pagle. I really think they messed up with the names of the other servers as well - especially the first 12. Whitemane was the only cool-sounding name. Scarlet Monastery references - I get it, but dude - the names of the characters inside that dungeon are AWFUL!
That site only tracks people listed on Warcraft Logsā¦
Not everyone raids. In fact, a large portion of the classic player base doesnt raid, has yet to raid or doesnt log their raids. You cant base census data off of a site, that by its own admission, doesnt even account for an unknown portion of the server populationā¦
The numbers from Ironforge are less than worthless when trying to determine a servers population.
No they arenāt, why would they be worthless? The most populated servers listed there are the most populated servers even if you count all the non-raiders and people that donāt log their raids.
Every server has casuals, every server has people that donāt log. The margin of error canāt be high and itās accurate enough to say which servers are dead and which are thriving.
[1] Not everyone raids. You may think they do, they do not. Id go so far as to say more people do not raid, than actually raid.
None of these people show up on the census and you have no way to determine how many of them there are or whether they are the majority.
[2] Even people that do raid, do not all raid log. If they do not raid log, they are not accounted for in any way by that site.
So what good are the warcraft logs number of a PORTION of the people who raidā¦when there is literally no way to determine how many do not raid and how many people raid but do not log? or even if raiders or non-raiders are the majority?
Iām sorry you donāt have critical thinking skills. Iām not going to bother trying to explain this to you because you donāt have the ability to comprehend any of this.
Even though it might not represent the total population of the realm - it still represents the faction balance pretty accurately. There is no such thing as one faction that has more % of raiders, then the other. Even if only 1-10% of all players on the realm do raids, it still gonna show the balance correctly.
Wrong, you donāt know what youāre talking about at all.
The population breakdown is accurate on ironforge.pro. The exact number of players is not, but all the numbers there are relative to each other.
Herod is the populated server, fact.
Heartseeker is the most populated Alliance PvP server, fact.
Because the same metric is applied to every server on that site. Are you comprehending this yet? The site tells you which servers are the most populated, and which faction on those servers is the most active. You donāt need absolute numbers to determine this.
Time for you to use your critical thinking skills.
[1] Your linked video states 35,000 people raided on the weekends during 2005.
[2] WoW had 2,500,000 subscriptions in 2005
(~https://kotaku.com/why-world-of-warcraft-lost-so-many-subscribers-1702814469)
So what percent of WoWās playerbase raided according to your source?
35,000 / 2,500,000 = 0.014 = 1.4%
No, it absolutely does nothing of the sort.
It tells you about a portion of the people that are raid logged through Warcraft Logs.
If half the guilds on my faction do not raid log and 90% of the opposing faction do raid logā¦what do the numbers mean? NOTHING< because you have no way to tell who is logging, who is not logging or if there are 70% of the population pvping and not raiding at all.
The numbers are completely apples to oranges without knowing what percent of the people raid log on each faction.
Can we agree that these numbers are āEstimatesā ? It is true that not all people raided in vanila, I remeber some metric that Blizzard released back then and it was something like 5%, with 3 % only successfully raiding all the way.
It is why they changed things around for raids, why the 40 mans went away etc.
It required too much effort and complexity for most players.
First - it is obvious, that nowadays there are much more raiding, then there was back in the days. People have better internet connection, and discord made it much easier to communicate.
Second - these numbers are estimates, and i mentioned that as well. But we gotta work with what we got. Player population is the number #1 thing that you gotta look at when you choose the realm. Even if this data give you an approximate idea how the balance looks like, it is still important for many people. There is no official data, and there probably wonāt be anytime soon.