Originally Posted by
Chemii
In 2005 wow had about 1.75 million subs in the US alone (roughly half of worldwide active subs, not a fact but I cba looking). We assume that about half that would be max level and capable of raiding since Q4 2004 release date. 875,000 players.
I'd say it was probably a lot less than that personally and about 500,000 but whatever, even so 1% of that player base is 8,750 players.
Add up the numbers he gave for one night in the US it comes to 33,500 unique players raiding, that's nearly 7% of the US player base raiding in one evening. He goes on to say that those instances are usually unique, which I find hard to believe, so lets dial it back a bit and say a different 4% raid on a different day every day.
28% of the player base raiding every week, which is a bit different to 1%.