Shocking population numbers from retail (data inside)

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All samples taken during 8:00pm realm time using Census addon. This is Horde and Alliance combined. Samples were taken across 33 Retail NA realms.

Average number of concurrent players per realm type:

New Player: 353
Low: 90
Medium: 108
High: 346
Full: 155

Total number of realms:

New Player: 11
Low: 26
Medium: 156
High: 29
Full: 24

If you do all the math it comes out to 27,939 concurrent players.

TLDR:

High realms on Retail have 350 players on them. High realms on Classic have around 12-14k players on them.

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This is number is so low I find it hard to believe

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Im so glad that cespool is dying.

Took another WoW to kill WoW…

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I’m not surprised. During wod subscription numbers were in a freefall and capital cities had no crz. Now, it takes a dozen or more realms to make those cities seem busy.

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That was largely why CRZ exists. Servers are largely barren except for a handful which house about 90% of the WOW playing population: Sargeras, Tichondrius, Mal’Ganis, Stormrage, Illidan and Proudmoore. Without CRZ, servers that are dead would have no way for people to quest in the open world. Without cross-realm heroic pugs, most servers wouldn’t see heroic or maybe even normal raiding.

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How are full servers half as populated as high servers?

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Agreed. This just seems too low.

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Only 30,000 concurrent players? That really isn’t much to sustain, you need like 100,000 players to sustain an MMO.

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How do high pop realms have more people than full realms?

Don’t think I understand how that addon collects its data.

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I did this too on some of my og vanilla servers they avged like 28 people lol. Big name realms got like 1k.

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What’s the name of the addon?

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I’m skeptical.

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246 realms across 3 regions ? I call mistake . Check your add-on data again. No way in the world there are only 27k players across the world. Try again .

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While I think the CensusPlus numbers seem low, there was that Blizz employee who said 70% of the users in retail WoW come from China? IMO that would make sense if the population is decreasing but wouldn’t make sense if there was still a high population?

Just speculation here though

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http://www.warcraftrealms.com/census.php

The data is on the site people upload their thingies too.

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Thats way less than the top wow streamer gets, much less all of them combined even before Classic came out. I call bull.

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I’m not sure you are allowed to post data like this. Daddy activision might not like it.

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Considering the fact that unless every single player used this “census” addon there’s no way for these numbers to be accurate I don’t think Blizzard or Activision cares if he posts it. Only 23k people? That’s not even the number of people on one classic server.

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the fappening taught me I should never upload my thingie

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Wait, I shouldn’t have uploaded that? Damnit.

Anyway unless its chrome doing it, their site looks busted as hell, don’t think I’d trust that info.