

More Than 1 Million People Play on WoW Private Serversīlizzard no longer reports on the current subscriber count for World of Warcraft, so the last numbers we have (and I think it’s safe to say that it’s lower now, but will go up some when the Legion expansion launches) was 5.5 million subscribers. The ratio of total WoW server to Nostalrius average players online was 10.00125, making it a very straightforward process to compile the rest of the numbers. This is the pure data numbers using the ratio from the Nostalrius infographic. Undoubtedly some of these will be the same player playing on multiple realms, but as mentioned previous this should be a fair accounting due to what we missed or have yet to include. That being said later on we’ll be evaluating the numbers and adding a bit of conjecture.īelow we’ve listed the numbers we’ll be evaluating, especially in regards to the ratio of average players online to the other metrics in order to give us a guess at a holistic picture of what the WoW private server community looks like.

While it should be noted that some numbers may be incorrect, we can postulate that it’s more than made up for with all the servers we don’t have included, such as alternate language servers, RP servers, and just some we plain missed and haven’t added yet.

A few notes on how we collected our data: we only listed servers that have been online for a certain period of time, we did low estimates around populations, and we monitored reported population over a period of time and checked in game for evidence of fake player counts. 80,010 Average Players Online Across All ServersĪfter a lot of time researching current WoW private servers and gathering population data there is an average population of 80,010 players online across them. Now in this data they don’t list average players online, but by all accounts from what we’ve read 8,000 seems to be a really solid number to go off of, using that in conjunction with the numbers in their infographic we can make some really reasonable assumptions about the current state of WoW private servers. Not long before Nostalrius was shut down by Blizzard they released a 1 year infographic (shown on the right) with active player numbers, character counts, etc.
