Perhaps, but Iāve generally trusted them so Iāll stick with their estimates unless I am willing to really dive into numbers myself, which I donāt care to do at the moment.
They have more incentive to be correct and time spent on the issue than any of us.
I have a Level 14 Warrior on Westfall Era that Iāve been ājourneyingā on. Not that it will ever match up to this Warrior in DF that started January 2007 right as BC droppedā¦
Oh thatās a nice metric, maybe my estimates are bit low, but I would still be surprised if daily users passes 1 mil in DF until they release next expansion.
The December 27th update had 750,000 downloads. Not everyone uses DBM or updates all the time either. Lots of casual players, as well as players from China who get their addons from their own cn domain websites. Thereās also people who use bigwigs or people who use weakauras packs instead of DBM.
Okay, so letās do the math, because that may be why both our metrics arent lining up
I added in the healer parses
Puts the metric to about 3million over 2 weeks. Divide that by 6 (6 bosses in raids) which is 500k
500k over 14 days does look like about 200k raiders, so ironforge does look correct then.
Well I look at your link and I see dmb with 450mil, raider io with 300 mil, and damage meter with 200 mil, so I think I am seeing total downloads all time.
Also, most raiders no longer use DBM on retail. Bigwigs is becoming more popular. To get an accurate data count youād want to total up bigwigs and DBM. And then thereās also Littlewigs for M+. A better addon to look at would probably be something like Details or Weakauras as most people use these.
Ok. Iāve fixed myself. Sorry for that.
The newest version of details has 1.2 million downloads on its latest release.
Released on the 19th. https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/details/files/5120901
so if we added that 1.2mill with the total from skada and recount (other damage meters) we could probably get an active metric for how many accounts are at least keeping their addons up to date, which is a solid metric.