Tiriensoul Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 (edited) World Of Warcraft:World of Warcraft has total of 266435 players weekly average logged on peak hours in US and EU regions combined.Link: http://www.warcraftrealms.com/weeklyfactionactivity.php Star Wars The Old Republic:The firm estimates that TOR has approximately 350,000 peak concurrent users spread across 215 servers.Link: http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/01/03/research-firm-swtor-has-350-000-peak-concurrent-users/ Source: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1057141-SWTOR-has-more-active-players-than-WOW-atm-in-US-and-EU-regions I just hope SWTOR has decent population unlike loads & loads of WoW servers during prime time, alot of WoW servers have been dying/dead since forever. And what's worse is that Blizzard never merges, what is so bad about doing that? I sure hope BioWare will merge if and when needed. Edited January 25, 2012 by Tiriensoul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiriensoul Posted January 4, 2012 Author Share Posted January 4, 2012 Page 3 in 1 minut. That's bad luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam_Nox Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 well yeah, most WoW's subs are in china anyways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Systam Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 well yeah, most WoW's subs are in china anyways well yeah its a new game also(hint people like to try out new games) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asuka Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Well WoW has or had something between 1-2 million subs on the US servers at one time or another. It's probably less now. The majority of players are in China & Korea though since they don't pay for subs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiriensoul Posted January 4, 2012 Author Share Posted January 4, 2012 well yeah, most WoW's subs are in china anyways Yeah, i've heard they never sell in-game gold over there... IS IT TRUE?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerda Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 (edited) well yeah, most WoW's subs are in china anyways China alone has 1m concurrent users Edited January 4, 2012 by Xerda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PjPablo Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 World Of Warcraft: World of Warcraft has total of 266435 players weekly average logged on peak hours in US and EU regions combined. Link: http://www.warcraftrealms.com/weeklyfactionactivity.php Star Wars The Old Republic: The firm estimates that TOR has approximately 350,000 peak concurrent users spread across 215 servers. Link: http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/01/03/research-firm-swtor-has-350-000-peak-concurrent-users/ Source: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1057141-SWTOR-has-more-active-players-than-WOW-atm-in-US-and-EU-regions Just found it, take it for what it is. But kinda neat anyway, if it's true ofcourse. I don't care about either, as long as BioWare gets enough money to give us expansions and what not. You are comparing average to PCU. The 350k is PEAK, not average. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiriensoul Posted January 4, 2012 Author Share Posted January 4, 2012 Well WoW has or had something between 1-2 million subs on the US servers at one time or another. It's probably less now. The majority of players are in China & Korea though since they don't pay for subs. They do pay, but not much. I think they pay for each hour or something, like...1-4 cents? Well it's not much anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DARTHNARTH Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Well I play the game and I dont see these players enjoying themselves. I see people spaming to find a group for some activity and failing. I see a handfull of insular guilds some of whom dont seem to support their own members. I see a game for misanthropes to feel better about themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forsbacka Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Well WoW has or had something between 1-2 million subs on the US servers at one time or another. It's probably less now. The majority of players are in China & Korea though since they don't pay for subs. Actually they do, in China they pay per hour cause the game time is limted there and Blizz aint allowed to ask monthly price when they cant play as much as they want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asuka Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Yeah, i've heard they never sell in-game gold over there... IS IT TRUE?! Funny thing is the Chinese gov't has their prisoners selling game currency in different games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imtrick Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 World Of Warcraft: World of Warcraft has total of 266435 players weekly average logged on peak hours in US and EU regions combined. Link: http://www.warcraftrealms.com/weeklyfactionactivity.php Not trying to prop up the argument either way, but the numbers at Warcraft Realms are always very wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angedechu Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 WC Realms is outdated... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiriensoul Posted January 4, 2012 Author Share Posted January 4, 2012 You are comparing average to PCU. The 350k is PEAK, not average. World of Warcraft has total of 266435 players weekly average logged on peak hours in US and EU regions combined. Doesn't it say PEAK hours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiriensoul Posted January 4, 2012 Author Share Posted January 4, 2012 Funny thing is the Chinese gov't has their prisoners selling game currency in different games. Omg, horrible. You shouldn't have said that... how am i suppose to sleep now? Jesus christ, that's torture on a grand scale. Death penalthy > playing wow On a more serious note, yes i've heard that. I even think it was on the news, somewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monjiay Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 It's never been fair to compare WoW subscriptions to other games because of their huge China base. Those people might have what some would call subscriptions, but they pay by the hour so you could have a million people that play only a couple of days a month or they could play every day. You could still claim millions of subscriptions, but it's apples and oranges. If one person in China signs on and plays a couple of hours in a month, that counts as a subscription even though it earns Blizzard no money at all and isn't what I call a subscription. Subscriptions have to be renewed. Paying by the hour does not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZenBones Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 There's a big difference between peak concurrence, and average concurrence. SWTOR is still behind WoW, but that's still an impressive number! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scfs Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 I approve. Thanks for the thread, i rarely find any info on WoW sub numbers for EU/US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiriensoul Posted January 4, 2012 Author Share Posted January 4, 2012 There's a big difference between peak concurrence, and average concurrence. SWTOR is still behind WoW, but that's still an impressive number! But doesn't it say Peak hours? What do they mean by Peak hours then? Is hours peaking or what ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragebropakage Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Yes and Skyrim peaked at 122k users on Steam today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asuka Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Omg, horrible. You shouldn't have said that... how am i suppose to sleep now? Jesus christ, that's torture on a grand scale. Death penalthy > playing wow On a more serious note, yes i've heard that. I even think it was on the news, somewhere? I suppose it beats having to sit in a cell and do nothing heh. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/25/china-prisoners-internet-gaming-scam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mannic Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 (edited) Pretty sure that right now there's about 500,000 WoW subscribers playing TOR, so that number is not really surprising. WoW always wanes in population after a Triple-A release. The question is; how many will stay? Edited January 4, 2012 by Mannic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kourage Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 For a perspective; When they were reporting 11 million subs, the Chinese were 50-60% of their total subs. Those subs amounted to a mere 6% of their total revenues from WoW subscriptions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rannasha Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 But doesn't it say Peak hours? What do they mean by Peak hours then? Is hours peaking or what ? The SW:TOR value is "peak concurrent", which means the maximum number of users online at the same time. The average number of users will of course be lower than this maximum. The WoW value mentioned is averaged over an entire week, so it can't directly be compared to the SW:TOR number. In addition, the website that provides the numbers is not very accurate anymore. It relies on WoW players using an addon that periodically polls how many people are online and then the user has to manually upload the data to the website (addons cannot do this automatically). So if anything, it'll be underestimating the number of people being online by a long shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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