![]() Soon after, I got contacted by Blizzard and they basically just told me that the data is false and that I might want to edit or delete my tweet to not look like an idiot that spreads misinformation. I tried repeatedly to point out how it wasn't but yeah, you guys know what happened. Obviously the community took this as a call to arms and soon after, everyone was treating the first tweet as a fact. This is how it looked to me, - but not to the rest of the internet. Turns out, people really don't read Twitter threads and Reddit only displays the first post of it by default. Well, the lazy person I am, I just figured I'd split my tweet up into three. So I began typing my tweet, wanting to talk about it and then it happened. What sounded too cool to me was that if those numbers are true, WeakAuras users make up 50% of WoW's user base. Also the thread has since been deleted and I did not have a screenshot nor was it accessible via Google Cache since it was in the subscriber only area. I knew it was a far fetch and could not be verified unless the full data dump was leaked, which it wasn't. What I usually do with those rumors is post them on the WeakAuras Twitter account to talk with other people about it. Someone posted a thread on ((forum that is against TOS)) about how the new API can be abused to get player subscription data and that was used to calculate current subscriber numbers. If you want more info it's all over World Of War craft forums, Youtube and Google news." ![]() But of course that's not counting free players below 20 or those who buy their sub with gold? Actually it might count. What's crazy to think about is if those numbers are true, then it's quite close to losing the title of most popular MMO, actually if 1.7 million active subs is true, it currently has less active players than ESO at around 2 million. Which sort of surprises me but also doesn't. If you doubled those for safety that's 3.4 million active players on WOW. At the start of BfA we had 3.2m subs, now at 1.7m of which ~25% are secondary BFA purchases You could iterate over all players and calculate active subs. So Blizzard launched a new API recently and it was leaking player subscription end dates. ![]() " 1.7 million players currently paying for a sub. ![]()
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