I dislike BFA as much as anyone, but I have a hard time believing those numbers. As bad as BFA has become, I think there are probably still at least several hundred thousand players, if not not 1M+. Some people love logging on every day for their collectibles and dressup.
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People shocked and in disbelief for that number? Really?
It looks quite accurate.
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The addon itself says it relies on people actually uploading the information it collects, you are wrong.
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The thing is, they have changed the meaning of âfullâ, âhighâ, âmediumâ, and âlowâ several times in recent past. I know because I have characters on a number of servers and could see on the realm selection screen when suddenly everything changed.
At this point, we really donât know what those words mean. But a âfullâ server on retail never has queues.
So did you log onto all 55 realms? Went to every zone etc? How does the addon collect the data of people online if you canât even see them?
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/who has a cap of 50 though.
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it does things like /who race level class etc
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So are you saying theres less than say⌠50 humans on each realm?
Also did OP do this on only his realm and tried using that as an average, or all 55?
no it does like race level class so its a lot more narrowed.
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That never has and still doesnât work. Itâs close enough for grenades and wild speculation by players but not accurate.
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Honestly, I believe you. The LFG tool for rated bgâs is like 3-4 groups and theyâre usually not full. It sounds about right considering private servers had maybe 1-2 groups absolute maximum doing premades and they were half as much as your data. Also, my main realm has maybe 5 people in org or SW, rest are from a bunch of other realms Iâve never heard of.
Also, none of the realms are actually FULL, as someone else stated.
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A couple nights ago, I ran a population addon search while doing some things on a Horde alt on my normal retail realm. The result was shocking: only 32 people found. Hopped onto an Alliance alt, and ran the same pop search, and found only 44 people.
Thatâs 76 total (although low levels under 10 or 20 arenât counted, iirc). Anyways, Iâve never seen numbers that low. I can recall only a few times the Horde pop being just under 100, and a few times with just under 200 Alliance (the server is Alliance dominated). So it used to be worst case, maybe 275 people total on when those runs were done.
But two nights ago to find only 76 total folks on? Really astounding to see a 75% drop from what was the lowest Iâd seen before.
/moo 
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/10 popcorns
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Ion and his current head devs ruined wow
Change my mind
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I know people really want to confirm their anti-retail bias but please have some respect for yourselves
You donât need to make up fake numbers for people to know BFA sucks.
You can look at WCL activity alone to know how silly a number like 30k is.
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i always said if retail was doing good they wouldnt have released classic wow.
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OP didnât let the addon run for hoursâŚhe only did it for 5 minutes and determined that was the result
addon works when you run it for hours, unless OP did this for a month or 2, his results are likely invalid
I play retail too and my realm (Moon Guard), theres a person there that posts that addon daily on lfg/trade chat, she always says 3000+ people at peak time
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wow was ruined by cata.
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yet there are like 10 full servers so is your data correct?
says the 120. Look pal I did on my own retail server ITS DEAD DOC.
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