So how many people are actually playing classic?

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Yesterday I was unable to play at launch. I coach a youth football team and we had practice so I didn’t log in until about 4 hours after launch.

I tried logging into 3 servers I had characters created on and all 3 had queues of ~25,000. None of these servers were crazy population servers like Herod and Ferlina. I’m assuming their queues may have been worse.

I wasn’t going to sit through a queue that long when I only had about 4 hours to play. So I tried 2 of the new servers that had opened within the past few hours and they were medium population, yet still had queues around 20,000. This got me thinking, wondering how many people were actually playing classic.

Blue post stated even medium realms now are more crowded than any vanilla server ever was, and that a server today can hold many times more players concurrently online than when the game launched in 2004. The online cap back then varied from 2,500 to 3,000. Let’s say now it’s 4 times that 3,000 mark so we have 12,000 players online per server.

At that particular time we had 20 NA servers, so 12,000*20=240,000 people in game in NA servers. If you say each realm had 25,000 player queues, then that adds another 500,000 online for a total of ~740,000 players actively online on the NA servers.

That’s not including other players that were not able to log on at that particular time, that’s not including Chinese and EU servers, and it’s not including people that had left the queues over frustration due to their length. I’d wager even a conservative estimate of total players online 4 hours after launch was around 2,000,000 globally.

What is your estimate for the number of people that are playing classic?

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probably about 5 mil new subs is what id guess

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Post hype? Maybe exactly the amount for the original raft of servers blizzard proposed. Honestly, i think they have a decent ballpark on genuine numbers once things stabilise.

The big leap of interest though will occur once bfa hits its post expansion. Then you’ll start to see players committing more time to it and perhaps being sucked in. Today (and probably the next week) is a blip. Every classic core player knew it was coming. Many of them have probably spent the day enjoying the forum drama rather than log in.

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Easily 2M world wide, but the number playing at launch of classic means nothing compared to what that number will be 12 months from now. My guess only about 25% of players trying to play on day one of classic will stick around to log every week.

It sucks that queue wait times were absurd, but releasing this many servers might not be very good for classic players who are in it for the long haul with no interest in retail.

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Those numbers dont add up. even if every single classic server had 10k players it wouldnt equal that number.

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I’d say that’s a very conservative estimate. I’d guess almost that many in NA alone. But it’s just that, a guess :slightly_smiling_face:

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10K was just the login que just to get on some servers. Not the total on each server.

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Never said it was hence the “even if”.

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15,000 views and 9 replies… that’s awkward.

But, probably a lot of players.

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Lol, THAT is funny.