WoW Census - Current population

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I run a census on my server every day. I’ve done this for literally years. (I clearly have no life.)

While the trend I see is anecdotal, it is possible to spot trends.

So here is where I see the WoW population currently.

The population, based on the numbers I see, is currently at end-of-expac levels. The numbers are generally about the same as they were at the end of Legion and WoD.

Despite a lot of people saying that the population has been in freefall, the numbers held fairly steady for a while. It is recently that there has been a significant drop. This isn’t including the massive (MASSIVE) drop there was after the first few months after BfA came out.

I am interested to see what the numbers look like when 8.2 drops. I can say there was no appreciable population increase when the last patch came out.

Of course, only Blizzard knows the real numbers. We have to make due with the tools available and extrapolate from that.

As always, ymmv

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I have 8 characters on moonguard - does your census show if I don’t log into them ?

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Feels like a x.4 cycle and we are barely gonna hit the x.2. A lot of people say WOD was worse than BFA, but we also haven’t hit the end of cycle burnout and content drought. Also the five realms connected to mine are outright dead.

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If you don’t log into them, they are not counted.

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So your census is a little flawed in that it doesn’t really reflect numbers of people playing, only those that log on.

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One of the most Pepega things I’ve read in awhile.

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I had to google that before I realized I should report you for being offensive.

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If they’re not logging on, they’re not playing.

Unless you meant subscription numbers. Then no, it is impossible to count those.

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They aren’t playing on that server - doesn’t mean they aren’t playing. I have characters on 4 servers and I go server to server working on them. One month ago I was working on characters on that server - today I am not.

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It would do much more for the community to cut down on realms and merge a whole ton of them together.

Half the realms in the game are listed as ‘Low’ but should be ‘DEADER THAN DEAD’ and literally only exist to lure new players into an empty realm that severely hampers the quality of the game.

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They keep changing the thresholds for what is considered low, medium, high, etc. there’s no way there’s more full realms than low realms anymore lul

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If you’re who I think you are on MG, OP, you’re an awesome person for the stuff you do for folks on that server.

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I’d give you a +1 for this but I seem to have run out of likes for the day, so dumb.

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You might have to leave goldshire.

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This is definitely true. My server is listed as Full, but before it was listed as High even though the numbers are lower than when it was just High.

My estimates are that a server can hold about 8000 people. Maybe 10000. I’ve seen it go that high before queues start to pop up. This is really a rough guess though.

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You’ll have to wait until 8.2 drops since there’s plenty of people that took a break until 8.2 comes out.

If even when 8.2 drops the numbers remain low, well… we have a problem.

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8 toons means nothing. Youre just one player.

ANyone that cant see the player base is at record lows is willfully blind to it.

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Yeah, I’m really curious to see those numbers as well, especially after about four weeks. See if 8.2 has any staying power.

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Yes but there is no guarantee others players don’t do the same sort of thing. That survey means nothing much.

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That is pretty silly. +1 for both.