Hi All,
I was wondering if there is anyway to find out how many wow classic players there currently is.
I am just curious to see how many have kept playing and whether or not the game is still as popular as when it was launched. I know that I for one will not be playing retail…
thanks
They broke our ways of looking. Its very popular still, the big realms remain high or full, all week during after work hours.
I’m guessing more than 2, but less than a billion?
At least 7 people.
Well, a few servers (particularly Faerlina, Herod, Stalagg, Whitemane, and a few others) get full pretty much every night.
Full apparently means something like 12500 players. (based on single scans by the census addon).
Even if The average server peak concurrent population was 5000, that’s still around 225000 concurrent players in the NA region. There are probably another 350000 players in Europe during peak hours. So just looking at peak CONCURRENT players in these two regions, we’re talking about over half a million people playing.
I don’t have a good way to translate that into total number of active players, though.
My guild has about a hundred people in it now I think. If we get all the guilds to reply with their member counts minus the alts, I’m sure we can figure it out! Someone fire up the spreadsheet!!
The entire reason Blizzard has one sub and you gain access to both Classic and Retail is to hide those numbers because you could say they are all Classic or Retail and no one will honestly know except Blizzard
Well this idea is less dumb than mine. I’ll take a look at census addon to see what that’s like.
Edit: Also should be mindful of the fact the different servers have different capacities and ‘full’ is just relative to their capacity. The nature of them being full and queue times says it’d probably suck trying to login to each full server to scan it for population size though.
The census addon is broken now.
I’d also like to point out that since it only sees friendly faction characters that are currently online, there’s no way to know if players are being counted multiple times or missed completely.
Thus it’s OK-ish for a single scan just to see roughly how many are on on your faction… but it can’t show you total active players.
Well, you’re not wrong.
More than retail.
I read somewhere that Classic had 4 million characters (fewer players) at one point. It was some article comparing online games in August. But don’t trust that rumor - it’s just something I read. And I’m sure the number is very different in week 5 than it was in week 1.
To me that’s the main reason for “no separate account”. That let’s every retail player try Classic for as long as they like before deciding to “only play Classic” or “only play BFA” or “play both” in months 2 to 12. Money isn’t part of the decision. “What the player prefers” is what matters.
Of COURSE there is huge hype for something that is new! Half of that hype isn’t players, it is wowhead. That dot-com website has been promoting Classic for months. Every day it’s “Look at our brand new Guide to pet battle drop BOEs dis-enchanting profits in Classic!”
Blizzard expected that hype – that’s the whole purpose of doing layering, instead of having 250 busy realms in week one (and 247 dead realms in week 15).
Usually concurrent players represent between 10 to 20% of total active players. So without any doubt classic has a dedicated base of multiple millions, though under 8 figures.
Ehhhh… I don’t know if I’d go that far. There are a few assumptions being made there.