June Concurrency Numbers Calculated

Rollie

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June concurrency numbers have been calculated and added to the overall concurrency chart as calculated using the <a href='http://www.warcraftrealms.com/censusplus.php'>CensusPlus</a> UI Addon.

June showed a large jump up from the dropping numbers of May for the US playerbase. EU playerbase continued it's upward trend.

Perhaps the drop in May was due to finals affecting students? Naaaah....

DM. · Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 3:13 pm Post subject:

Wow interesting

New realms soon?
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grimm100 · Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:17 pm Post subject:

Why the constant rush for new realms? You like starting all over again and again? I don\\\'t get it.

TheDeamon · Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 4:01 pm Post subject:

I know I was expecting a rebound, but still.... That is certainly a bit more of a jump in US player activity than I was expecting. Shocked

xpolockx · Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 4:14 pm Post subject:

I've never understood why people clamor for new realms myself, but I don't think DM will be rerolling Razz

Interesting to see how it jumped back up... it probably does have to do with summertime and teens/college students having a little more time to play. I guess we'll see if it goes down dramatically in september or so Wink

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Eyeball-Dragonmaw · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:55 am Post subject:

Personally I can see why people go to new realms. It's like the excitement when the game was first released. Everyone starts at 0 so the world pvp at the beginning is alot of fun, creating new guilds, and so much more. I really wanted to start on a new realm, but January was the latest I found, but than my coworkers begged me to join their server with promises of helping me out. Oh did I say broken promises because it seems they never play when at work they talk like the work, eat, and play wow. Just typical of everyone I run into that plays WoW in RL.....they talk a big game, but once you get on their server you see that really they play like 5 hours a week.

Hybuir · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:07 am Post subject:

The thing is that they'll prolly assume that the economy is stable, sometimes it's so blown out of proportion that it takes a LOT of time and effort to stabilize it
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xpolockx · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:14 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I've actually found that it's easier to make money on a more mature realm because once everyone starts leveling alts they can afford to pay more for things like bars, herbs, leather and enchanting mats.

Yeah Eyeball, I run into people all the time that are all talk. Good thing I'm not looking to reroll anytime soon Razz

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Dreadicus · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:15 am Post subject:

Likely won\\\'t be new realms until they consolidate some of the \\\'dead\\\' ones. There are quite a few servers (many of them \\\'new\\\') that are empty; Consolidate first, then they can take the empty server, rinse, repeat, and voila new Realm.. They certainly aren\\\'t going to buy *more* new hardware for a game that finally reached it\\\'s zenith and is declining (albeit slowly, and not all that noticeable!). If anything, I\\\'d bet they consolidate old servers, and take the hardware for use on Starcraft! :p <p>
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TheDeamon · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:07 am Post subject:

I guess I'm going to do some linkback here for Rollie.

He might want to explain some things to the bloggers at wowinsider =P

http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/06/13/why-are-people-leaving-wow/

http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/07/06/blizzard-answers-development-priorities-question/

For kicks, I'll quote the relevant part of the blognews entry from Friday. (most of the one from June 13th is relevant to WCR)

Rollie · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:13 am Post subject:

If I had an easy way to contact the writers, I would. I've posted in the sea of comments before and I'm sure it went totally unnoticed.

TheDeamon · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 11:34 am Post subject:

TheDeamon · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:45 pm Post subject:

And now, Blizzard reports they have passed the 9 million subscribers point.