Low/Med/High/Full population indicators and what they mean now

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I stopped playing retail years ago because of Blizzard’s refusal to properly address server populations. I wasn’t going to pay to transfer to a server that wasn’t dead. I just now watched my friend playing on my realm cluster (Maelstrom, Venture-co, Lightninghoof, Ravenholdt, Twisting Nether) and it’s now labeled “High” population.

The server is still completely dead. There was a single level 70 Warrior online at prime time today and only two level 70 Evokers. There were a few people in that Dragon city hub but how could this be called a “High” pop server now?

A couple hundred people online, Horde and Alliance combined at prime time on a Sunday is considered High population now? Is this some sort of gaslighting by Blizzard to justify their refusal to fix these dead servers? How dead are the Low population servers? Twenty people online at prime time?

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Its an indication of the amount of players with characters on the server, not a measure of how many are online at that moment.

Retail servers are about as dead as they will ever be right now. Its the last week of the season, theres still mop remix going, etc.

Having said that, I do agree that the “high” label is given too easily with the clusters of several dead servers. I used to be on Eonar-velen-4 other small servers and that was labelled high when its always been pretty dead. The gap between high and full and is huge.

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