Blizzard, can you give us some server statistics?
Numbers like players per server, faction ratio per server, number of lvl 60’s per server and informations like that.
Not sure about others, but i myself love to go through stats.
Please give us some 
i would love it too, but if they publish numbers, you can add those numbers and compare and stuff…some people might not like that classic numbers are higher then retail
You mean some children would start to cry? xd
this can help
Sadly the update we had this week broke the ability for us to take any more census data. They broke the addon that gathers the data via /who. They only broke it for Classic and not Retail.
#nochanges numbers were not in vanilla
Troll much? This would have no outcome on the game.
WE NEED SOME STATS
Need?
Pray, what for?
You don’t need them - your role when it comes to Warcraft is solely enjoying the game and playing. You don’t need any stats to do anything useful.
Rather - the stats are destructive, because the negative reaction is much higher, and any positive stats turn into negative quite often.
Example:
ANY stats will turn to a negative for Blizzard. And negativity gains much more traction than positivity, and grabs attention quicker.
There’s literally zero benefit for Blizzard to EVER release statistics, because in the long run it’s only detrimental. Even if Classic got them ten million subs - they will open champaigne but will not tell you. Because that’d create hype for a whole week, and then then people will compare every news (or lack of such) to that momentary boom, and say how Blizzard is doing horrible.
Like any modern management, they are being d*cks.
Any chance that makes them look bad has to be shut down. And because they spent more money on BFA than classic and classic is more loved and better recieved (even with HUGE problems) it looks bad for shareholders. Sadly board and shareholders hold more power even when they have absolute nothing that could qualify as knownledge or skill. (I don’t see ability to have ideas for more shop items as skill or useful brain function)
So basically if YOU are not interested in something no one else should be? That’s not how it works, you sound a bit entitled.
They don’t have to release numbers that could harm them, but things like faction balance, most played class, most killed npc and similar can do no harm to them.
Well census numbers weren’t that positive for Classic. They shown that there were 4.5m characters, but only around 400k above lvl 40 after 3 weeks and only 30k lvl 60 characters. It shows massive drop off when players go above lvl 30.Basically less than 10% of total characters are 40 lvl and above. It also have shown massive imbalance between Alliance and Horde on all servers, some even going 70% horde already. Which caused people to demand from Blizzard to do something about balancing. Like locking character creation for horde ,free transfers and similar. Its better for Blizzard if people don’t see Classic stats.
That doesn’t sound too bad. I mean, 400k level 40s after three weeks, of 4.5m total characters. Considering unimaginable queues, overpopulated areas, and sometimes seemingly no dynamic spawning.
Problem is, for a long time there was no change. There were no increased numbers of people above 30. Only thing that changed was between 40 and 60 where more people hit 60. However there was basically no change between 5 and 30 where more people move above 30 lvl.
Or the other way around …
Yea other way around seems much more believable
Oh, you see - being curious is one thing.
Needing something - is another.
You want the stats, that’s true. You don’t need them for anything though.
They can harm the game and as a result - harm Blizzard.
You could release faction balance stats, and see more players roll the “winning” faction, thus increasing the imbalance.
You could release class stats, and see it affect player choices down the line, that can lead to all sorts of complications.
Most killed NPC - yeah, that’s probably harmless. Then again, they wouldn’t likely release such things when a game is not even a month old.
It doesn’t need to be very bright to realize that if wow have 10 mill subs Blizzard will be screaming from the rooftops again (like before) about the number of their subs.
To realize THAT you need to be not very bright indeed.
To realize that screaming about it now will make good news for a week, then keep biting them in the behind for the next 10 years every time the sub numbers aren’t that high or every time they don’t share the numbers - you need to be just a bit brighter than that. A step that you clearly failed to climb.
Oh so bright person. In ten years a ton of things may happen. Extremely positive news is a lot of money right now.
They were extremely positive for Classic but also showed almost nobody was online in Retail. Even Full/High BfA Realms had only a few hundred players online. This also explains why Cross-Realming is so rampant. It makes the huge amount of dead Realms appear somewhat alive.
And of course they broke the addon once that info leaked.