So where does Blizzard show their official player numbers now?

[Wuusah]

All those numbers are just speculation. FF14 has never given any numbers for active players and WoW stopped giving them long ago.

Also @Knight Meta: if you don’t like a YouTube channel or its content then you can tell YouTube that you aren’t interested in such content by opening the context menu for those videos and clicking “not interested” or however it is called. And voilà they will stop recommending those videos to you.

Also that hatefulness against some of those content creators is cringe.

[Unlimited Power]

You know, if you don't want to see video suggestions from certain channels on youtube, you can click the 3-dot icon that appears if you hover a video thumbnail and click "don't recommend channel".

As far as the claim that FFIX has surpassed WoW subscribers, that claim supposedly comes from this "news article" that sources mmo-population.com. Mmo-population.com merely estimates the active population based on a variety of factors. The article also divides the retail and classic playerbase and doesn't actually account for whether or not the players are subscribed. Blizzard doesn't even release active subscriber numbers in any official capacity in the first place.

But honestly, what does it even matter? Neither game is better or worse because it has more or fewer subscribers than its competitors. It's up to each individual player to decide for themselves whether a game is worth playing or not.

[SirFinlot]

That mmo-pupulation.com post would surely matter if it said WoW has doubled it's player base.
But as long as it claims otherwise, it's irrelevant.

[Exeris]

The numbers claim is coming from https://mmo-population.com/activity.

Which yes, it's at best an educated guess and not really meant to be taken as fact - of course, all the click-starved gaming news websites and youtubers don't really care about that, as long as they get their clicks.

With that said, I would say at the present moment it's definitely not impossible for FF to have more active players than retail or classic individually, especially since retail+classic combined still have a lot more.


Bellular I believe has outright stated that FF is at the moment a better MMO, although WoW still does some things better. With that said for a long time he seems to say more what he thinks will be spicy for the videos than what he actually thinks or makes sense, so combined with 9.1 delays I would take that with a huge grain of salt - but that's just my opinion.

Asmon I'm not sure if he has played yet, only watched videos on it (including bellular's) and his general position so far is that he doesn't particularly like the art style but overall wants it to be a good game because he believes it's best for games to have competition and to "inspire" each other.

Thanks for posting that link btw, was a nice list over potential MMOs to try out.

[Zora-Prime]

That mmo-pupulation.com post would surely matter if it said WoW has doubled it's player base.
But as long as it claims otherwise, it's irrelevant.

Nobody cited it when WoW was on top, they just started now.

Literally the opposite of your argument.

[thunderdragon2]

i honestly don't believe that wow has 115 million total players

[MoanaLisa]

That mmo-pupulation.com post would surely matter if it said WoW has doubled it's player base.
But as long as it claims otherwise, it's irrelevant.

If that happened at any other time than an expansion release quarter I'd call BS on that as well. Bad data is bad data. Almost all of these sites that are attempting to judge this are working on incomplete information and assumptions that may have no basis in reality.

[Lolites]

i honestly don't believe that wow has 115 million total players

blizzard themselves said they reached 100m players late cata/ early panda, so i wouldnt be surprised... although the site is pure bullshit, they themself say its inacurate so every single of their numbers should be taken with a pinch of salt... hell they put Wildstar, which is dead for years (literaly, no more active servers) at 26k active players

[lockybalboa]

Why would they? It'll be too embarrassing for them to show

[Nask]

Why would anyone believe that shit site? Even the registered account number that was publicly released by Blizzard, over 200 million in 2017 or something, is displayed wrongly on that site.

[crazyswayzee]

[QUOTE=Knight Meta;53236529]So since I watch WoW related content on Youtube (Like Captain Grim, Snackybox and sometimes just play WoW OST's) - Their algorithm is of course trying to shove Spergmongold down my throat by constantly having his videos SOMEWHERE on any of the visible tabs when I look at any video. Being the good boy that I am; I've not clicked in on any of his videos in years but I can still see the titles and as of late; all the rave with him and the fallen from grace Bellulargaming;

why do you hate on asmon so much? i mean everyone knows that he can be toxic in wow but he is a kind human being which is reflected and humble in real life.

btw what happened to bellurlar?

[rogoth]

Yeah and not all but a big part of those numbers would be Diablo 3 and them giving up on Heroes of the Storm, but mostly Overwatch.

for frame of reference, it's mathematically impossible for them to loose as many 'players' as they have done from those franchises combined, which suggests that the losses have come mainly from WoW, it doesn't take a genius to see why that is the case either.

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What microtransactions? A store mount every six months lmao

i think your are either wilfully ignorant of the sheer amount of 'microtransactions' in WoW, or are new and as such haven't encountered them yet, either way you're forgetting the sheer bullshit that is server transfers/character customisation/faction transfers along with the myriad other shite they pull to drum up sales.

[Kolvarg]

Nobody cited it when WoW was on top, they just started now.

Literally the opposite of your argument.

Incorrect!

Not that I trust theses numbers but Just from a quick google, it would be number 3.
Wow 1,621,302
2007scape 1,506,278
Ffixv 1,157,813
https://mmo-population.com/

If you mean popularity every site I checked had it at 3 or even lower normally behind elder scrolls.

[Soikona]

All those numbers are just speculation. FF14 has never given any numbers for active players and WoW stopped giving them long ago.

Also @Knight Meta: if you don’t like a YouTube channel or its content then you can tell YouTube that you aren’t interested in such content by opening the context menu for those videos and clicking “not interested” or however it is called. And voilà they will stop recommending those videos to you.

Also that hatefulness against some of those content creators is cringe.

Yea if that worked, I would stop getting videos from the long faced guy and the balding one. But nope, YouTube keeps recommending them to me for some odd reason. The height of WoW YouTube I watch are raid tactics.

I don’t hate them specifically, I just hate all youtubers that try to pass their opinion as fact or say something spicy just for click bait.

IMO, the true cringe is putting their opinion higher than anyone else’s.

[Kaykay]

Wrong topic, mate.

Nah, the question was "where does blizzard show their official player numbers"
And the answer is:
They dont, nowadays all they care about is microtransaction revenue. (which is forever growing in this p2w game)

Since microtransaction revenue is the only metric they publish for wow, eg how much money did the game make versus number of subscribers.

What microtransactions? A store mount every six months lmao

Tokens, boosts, thousands every day. It's what's keeping the company afloat.

[Zora-Prime]

Incorrect!

Props on finding a 2 year old, sub 1 page thread. However, the FFXIV players in that very thread are calling the data inaccurate.

[Kolvarg]

Props on finding a 2 year old, sub 1 page thread.

What does it matter? Your claim was that no one ever cited the website while WoW was on top

However, the FFXIV players in that very thread are calling the data inaccurate.

Incorrect again. 1 poster, who might be a FF player or not, is calling it inaccurate. And if anything it reinforces the point of the person you were replying to: (some) people will cite it when it supports their argument, and question its accuracy when it doesn't (the poster defending WoW cited the data, the (potential) FF player questioned it).

[Zora-Prime]

What does it matter? Your claim was that no one ever cited the website while WoW was on top



Incorrect again. 1 poster, who might be a FF player or not, is calling it inaccurate. And if anything it reinforces the point of the person you were replying to: (some) people will cite it when it supports their argument, and question its accuracy when it doesn't (the poster defending WoW cited the data, the (potential) FF player questioned it).

obviously it matters when the only thing to show for is a 1 page thread, 2 years ago, where people are debating it's accuracy...

Anyways bro, it is inaccurate whether WoW, FFXIV or anything else is at the top.

This is how they calculate their stuff.

"By combining online social activity, sentiment tracking, public statistics, rankings and more MMO Populations estimates the total subscribers, players and active daily players for the top MMOs. Above is the total number of tracked players by the sit" - mmo-population.com

It's junk...

[Kolvarg]

It's junk...

Well, to be fair it's likely more accurate than anything else out there, and particularly more than the main other reasoning behind such opinions which tends to be not much more than "I feel X is more popular than Y" =P

[Lahis]

i think your are either wilfully ignorant of the sheer amount of 'microtransactions' in WoW, or are new and as such haven't encountered them yet, either way you're forgetting the sheer bullshit that is server transfers/character customisation/faction transfers along with the myriad other shite they pull to drum up sales.

Well technically none of those are microtransactions... each of those services cost more than whole ass games. Nothing micro about that.