I’m looking through several realms on ironforge.pro and noticing on many of them, their population has dropped by a considerable percentage since the previous report.
Benediction: ~3,000 lost since previous report
Faerlina: ~2,000
Grobbulus: ~800 horde, ~800 alliance
Whitemane: ~1500
Did they change the way they calculate population? or is this a result of the Wrath announcement? or possibly the SWP PTR?
Bingo.
No point in prepping for Wrath if you’re not going to play Wrath.
The population is tracked by raid logs, so there were less people raiding. That doesn’t mean the actual population dropped. People could be burnt out and waiting for phase 5, or working up alts, or not raiding on alts anymore etc.
It’s because no random dungeon finder
Man I just didn’t realize this many would quit over it.
Turning out to be a bigger deal than I thought.
Assuming it’s actual drops in players (and not as other’s said: people waiting on P5 and not raiding atm).
I think the more accurate reason would be the knowledge-drop that there wouldn’t be a TBCC Era server group. Some just straight up don’t want to play Wrath. Some are seeing this as a sign that Wrath won’t have Era servers either…in both cases, then, the feeling would be: What’s the point in continuing to play [TBCC]
It could be RDF announcement too, who knows.
It’s hard to say for sure, it was Easter weekend, so it could have been as simple as that. The PTR? Maybe that too…
Those logs are for up to April 19th, before any Wrath announcement, which means that announcement had nothing to do with it.
To be honest I’m surprised that more people haven’t noticed the dates and are talking about these random reasons that couldn’t possibly be accurate.
Tbh I didn’t notice the dates. Just the pop drop.
Isn’t it also tracked by arena?
I have all the gear I need outside Illidan drops which are hotly contested
Thought about taking a break until Sunwell myself
I think most ppl see Illidan as the big bad of the xpac, they don’t care for sunwell.
Also, wotlk confirmed so take a break before re-roll/prep for wotlk.
For the system based on raid logs.
10/10
no tbc era realms no point in playing tbc just to get forced into wrath
I don’t know if they use the arena stats for overall population
Lmfao this looks like a paid advertisement for proponents of LFD
I mean everyone else throwing out their guesses my guess isn’t any worse.
People quit for reasons.
Who’s to say some didn’t quit cuz no rdf?
No way the numbers would reflect that already.
Someone corrected me and showed that the drop was before Wrath announcement, so it’s something else.
It’s really hard to guess why people quit tbh.