WoWCensus

WoWCensus.com is a site which lets people install a World of Warcraft user interface modification program which with scripted /who commands makes a census of all the characters playing in that game. According to them, WoW has 750,000 characters. They call it "players", but it is really just characters, not individual accounts. Still three quarter of a million characters is quite a lot. With Blizzard having announced 350,000 copies of the game sold by the 1st of December, that number of characters should be not too far from the truth.

Interestingly WoWCensus then also mines the data to give information about sides, races, and classes. With the most significant result being that nearly two thirds of people play Alliance, and a bit over one third play Horde. That disequilibrium could cause problems for PvP in the long run.
- posted by Tobold @ 7:55 PM Permanent Link