sounds like it was disabled for script use not player use, for players it should work just fine, just addons can’t use it anymore
If anything hiding player numbers helps increase player retention for classic because it’ll prevent people from feeling like their realms are dying.
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You literally have no idea what you’re talking about, do you?
Breaking the census addon won’t help them do anything. All it does is tally the number of players online in an orderly fashion. It has nothing to do with queue times. The data it gathers is as accurate as possible.
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It was incredibly accurate. It gathers the data that is there, it doesn’t fabricate it or construe it at all. You have no idea how the addon worked obviously and have never used it.
It’s literally the same as counting heads, but it’s incapable of making mistakes and counting the same head twice or missing one. It reflects active populations like a mirror.
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Without good information, only a fool would transfer off a full server.
You sound insane and youre going to get the dummies to agree with you which is just sad.
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Don’t really need the addon to see the imbalance on Stalagg. Of course the data may have influenced the decision for people to leave, but seeing 16 horde and 1 Alliance player in Everlook (me) convinced me to pick up my bags and leave.
Why is nobody discussing the very likely possibility that breaking /who was intended to stop the rampant gold selling via chat channel invites? They were clearly done with a custom addon that scoured /who results. Ever since /who was broken, I haven’t seen ANYBODY complaining about receiving gold seller chat invites.
Put away the tinfoil hats. The government isn’t stealing your thoughts.
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Yeah I wish they’d give us the info we want. I know thalnos is horde dominated but it’s not gonna make me leave the server. I just want to know accurate population ratios.
Yeah I have literally never head anyone complain about gold spammers. I’ve never received a single message the entire time I’ve been playing classic. I’ve never been invited to some random chat channel.
It has nothing to do with gold spammers.
They simply wanted to break the census addons that people have been using for over a decade now. Suddenly now, why?
Why did they have to break these addons? It seems so insignificant, but it’s honestly infuriating.
I don’t think they want it to fail, but they do want it to push players into retail as quick as possible. They’d cause a universal meltdown if they added a store to classic, so push people to the real money maker, the store in retail.
The leaked announcement that classic 60’s would get a free BfA with a 110 level boost points to this. I’ll bet that happens right about when people are done clearing MC and content patch hits retail.
Well, sucks for you! Too bad! HAhahaha! /Blizzard
You used to be able to do that, but now Blizz has decided they don’t like us being able to know the faction balances or population sizes of servers, or to know the most popular class/race or the average player levels. Wish I knew why bud, this is seriously stupid.
This change has nothing to do with spammers.
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I’d receive at least two chat channel invites daily from gold spammers.
They simply wanted to break the census addons that people have been using for over a decade now. Suddenly now, why?
Occam’s razor. Put away your tinfoil hat. It has nothing to do with Blizzard wanting to hide player counts because they can’t accept Classic is doing better than retail, or to hide player counts that are discouraging players from realm transferring, etc.
Blizzard HATES gold sellers. People have been complaining about chat channel invites from gold sellers since week 1. When there isn’t anything in place to combat them (i.e. WoW tokens) they’re left with the alternative of breaking their advertisement automation.
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We don’t know why exactly it was broken, but it definitely wasn’t to try to sabotage classic.
If it was even about hiding playerbase count (which I’m doubtful of that) the opposite would make a lot more sense. If it was publicly available that people are quickly quitting the game, a lot of people would bandwagon and also quit.
Escape -> Options -> Interface -> Chat -> Block Random Chat Invites
Occam’s Razor. It has entirely everything to do with Blizzard wanting to hide player counts and population info.
If blizzard hated gold sellers so much they would ban them more than once every year. They let them farm for 6-12 months, while sending hoards of gold off to their mule accounts while damaging the economy.
They don’t hate them enough to actively ban them, they wait and do it in waves under the guise of “gathering information” on how the bots work.
If you wanted to know, you’d just buy the bot for yourself and reverse engineer it and then break it that way.
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It was probably broken to keep people from layer jumping. Perhaps when they end layering, they’ll re-enable it?
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You still see the chat channel invite and advertised URL in the chat box, even if you have it blocked.
Stop spreading this misinformation. /who NEVER allowed you to determine what layer you were in, or who was in your layer. Blizz even stated this.
Another popular theory is that you can determine your current layer by doing a /who in a capital city, and comparing the results against the /who your friend does. That doesn’t work because /who returns results from the entire realm, not just from your layer, and if the result set is too large it truncates the results before sorting them. This means every player gets different results, but those differences in result set have nothing to do with which layer you’re on. This has led some people to claim that they’ve discovered dozens of layers per realm, but that claim is completely false .
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I doubt that’s true.
I’ve never had any problems.