On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 10:49:16 -0500, Mike S. <
Mik...@nowhere.com>
wrote:
I think all the population sites are inaccurate, as there's no
reliable way to gather the data. I've been using
https://www.wowrealmpopulation.com/ lately, which seems tocount more
than only raiders (most others have smaller totals and are
raid-orientated), but it disagrees with the rest on how high
population my realm is (most have mine 1st or 2nd in Europe, while
this one says 11th). Who's right, who knows, but I'm just delighted to
not be getting peak time queues, which used to be several hours long
at expansion launch, so if it's gone down, great!
As far as low population goes, it only really matters if you notice a
lack of people or want to join large guilds etc; for open world play
the lower population realms are crossrealmed with other realms (and
some have been permanently merged with other realms, which not all the
population websites allow for), so will still have players around.
Also sharding to spread players out is quite aggressive at expansion
launch so even on a high population realm I'm getting some reasonable
peace to quest without fighting for tags, much appreciated.