After a lifetime of ups and downs, World of Warcraft is approaching its twentieth anniversary while going through one of the sweetest moments in its history. This has been confirmed by one of the most authoritative voices in the MMORPG community of Blizzard. This achievement is quite remarkable for a title whose imminent demise was prophesied shortly after the release of Mists of Pandaria, an expansion that was launched about twelve years ago and caused a drop in the number of subscribers.
Is this the best moment in WoW history?
The creator of Warcraft Logs, a web page specialized in gathering statistical data about the MMO, was the one to confirm the video game’s good situation. According to explanations on social media, the game’s return to China has caused a surge in the number of users. “I’m pretty sure World of Warcraft is at its best moment in terms of number of players. The number of users in China playing WOLTK [ Wrath of the Lich King, WoW Classic] is on par with the maximum we have recorded in the entire life cycle of Warcraft Logs,” he said.
Lacking official data, the founder of Warcraft Logs bases his statements on the statistics he knows. Besides having had over a thousand users per minute in the past weeks and having had to increase the size of the database after over ten years in service, records show that over 11 million characters have completed the Ulduar raid (Wrath of the Lich King, WoW Classic) only on the Chinese server. This would still need to add the players from the rest of the world and include both those playing the updated version, which just received The War Within or the rest of the WoW Classic users.
Although they have not faced difficulties in terms of number of players recently, there is no doubt that being present in a market as large as China helps the game to, at the very least, compare again with its peak moments of popularity. The truth is that World of Warcraft continues to be one of the driving forces of the video game industry 20 years after its launch and that almost no other video game has been able to reach its levels of success.
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