Warcraft Logs Reports 11 Million Ulduar Characters in China's Wrath of the Lich King Classic

Posted 2024/09/12 at 9:00 AM by Serenal

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Comment by Lomkail

Why even play at all when you buy such a huge skip

Comment by Metac

There should be more Drama between RWF Guilds and Streamers...Watching WoW without that is boring AF

Comment by MadSoritmihcraLm

so 11 million (non unique) entries on a logging website is how we get to the total amount of players

even if people have 2 alts, you cut that player count in half, keep adding alts (which they most likely have) and it just goes lower and lower.

what an absolute brain dead way to try and figure out player count, but i expect nothing less from a twitter random

Comment by hobbes

It wasn't watched because blizzard screwed up and decided to milk players and charge for on time access to the game. This divided everyone up and killed hype. Seriously stupid move in an otherwise fantastic expansion.

Comment by nvrsbr

Glad to hear it, I love seeing WoW doing well.

Comment by KarthusTeemo

"It's just rose tinted goggles and nostalgia nobody really wants classic" continues to age well.

Comment by Zerothian

Did you just call Kihra a "twitter random"? He has done more for this game than you ever will lmao.

Comment by vlprgs

Let's think for a second
There was no WoW for some time in China
China is known to have absurd amount of bots, RMT and other issues. And the game jsut relaunched
The newest bundle practically gives you fully ulduar-ready character with all rep, set of items etc
... and you're wondering why there's 11mln characters, where people on average had 3+ alts and GDKP leads having 20+ with gdkp addicts following with 10+?
They always had gigantic population. Shame that there's more bots and farmers than real players

Comment by orryer

Cat girl jump scare

Comment by saiadar

Comment by Yanoru

Did you just call Kihra a "twitter random"? He has done more for this game than you ever will lmao.

I mean, not everyone knows who this dude is. A lot of players don't care about logs and just have fun with the game.

So what? Their take was still completely out of touch. Some people just shouldnt use their keyboard.

Comment by SlowboLaggins

Player count is definitely back to a high but this is a disingenuous headline, its not unique entries so a lot of these characters are just the same people on alts which, as we know in China, tends to be a lot of alts.

Comment by Xingbg

No idea why people always go for the cope strategy...
11 mil people.. everyone must have 11 toons, so it's only 1 mil people. Among those 1 mil 99% are bots, so it's only few people playing Wrath.
At least that's the wowhead math that's going on right now here in the comments lol.

We already went through Wrath classic, so it's normal that no one "cares" anymore, but they haven't. It's normal to have a lot of interest in it, especially considering that they will probably have a better experience, since they will get the more polished version.

Have they gotten SOD? I'd be interested to see how they react to SOD.

Comment by vlprgs

Comment by LordSupremacy

Fantastic expansion ? It came out like 2-3 weeks ago xD

Some people cant distinguish a good expansion from the hype. Dont get me wrong, im not playing retail. Still have BFA/SL ptsd. But I know for a fact that both these expansions were "amazing" for the first month.

So give it a year, then lets see how it looks.

Comment by Nossie

It's not even math, it's based on reality considering how classic wrath went in EU/US and how Chinesee plays wow since like bfa/shadowlands. If i said that on average there's 3 alts per person, I wouldn't lie, prolly i even downplayed it. And now you have CH version of boost that gives you a straight up maxed raid-ready character. I was playing in GDKP with obvious RL doing this like a job with more than 20+ characters, all of them raiding. In thsi gdkp you had like 30+ regulars with around 10 alts. Ofc to match this you have casual players with single characters. In my guild average number of alts was 6 and we had 2 raid teams doing weekly 4-5 raids

Sure, the guy did a lot of work to make wowlogs, none is denying it. but it doesn't mean he cannot be delusional, and that's what happens

and those are logs from ulduar. To think that there's so much hype around 15 years old xpac when retail just got a new one is just... sad

Also sad that there is more sellers of gold via classic than retail. So its a higher income for the farmers/bots/etc.
Can also explain why people are more on the classic bandwagon than retail over there.
But TWW is a fun xpac.. although would love some more stuff to see / do at this moment.
Then again DF (and older xpacs) had a lot more for most people due to the moment they joined.

If they ease of leveling to max level was adjusted and you actually had to do quests and have the feeling wow I made max level and need to get flying or attuments.. that would be better I think. But people are lazy :(

Comment by 1988498

All the wow haters coping in the comments " EVeRyOnE HAS 11 ALts GAME IS DEAD" Here, On twitter, Twitch and reddit lol xD
Game is doing great across multiple versions, you're just old and angsty.

Comment by 1988498

Every character is unique.

Comment by SinR

The take that Characters equals unique people playing is... yeah

The take that its all Bots is just as... yeah...

Comment by Swordose

Don't talk me about this cancer raid, what a horrible experience. Worst raid ever.