How many people play WoW Forever?

Blizzard does not publish player counts. What this page can say is that the 197 guilds AHledger has read from Blizzard’s guild API hold 0 characters across the US and EU regions. That counts characters, alts included, and only those in a guild AHledger has found, so the game has more characters than this, and fewer players.

Is WoW Forever Horde or Alliance heavy?

Across both regions and every ruleset the characters in the guilds read are 65% Horde. It differs by ruleset and region; the faction balance page has each one with this week’s PvP kills.

Where do these numbers come from?

From Blizzard’s own guild API. Every guild a character on the AHledger PvP ladder belongs to is looked up, and its roster lists each member’s level, class, race and faction. Rosters are read about once a day, and a guild not read for 14 days drops out. No other site’s data is used.

World of Warcraft: Forever · who plays what

WoW Forever population

Name: WoW Forever population by class, race, faction and level
Creator: AHledger
License: https://ahledger.com/developers#terms

Not enough guild rosters have been read yet to say who plays what. The figures fill in as AHledger reads the rosters of the guilds it finds, a few thousand an hour.

Summed hourly from Blizzard’s guild rosters. Characters with no guild are not counted. How it is counted.

0characters in guilds
197guilds read
65% Hordefaction split
0at level 60

Horde against Alliance

Every ruleset

Characters in the guilds read, by faction. The faction balance page adds this week’s honorable kills, ranked players and the daily trend.

US PvP · 62 guilds
Alliance 27%688 charactersHorde 73%1,895 characters
US Roleplay PvP · 3 guildstoo few to split
Alliance13 charactersHorde12 characters
US Normal · 34 guilds
Alliance 27%480 charactersHorde 73%1,276 characters
US Roleplay · 3 guilds
Alliance 33%28 charactersHorde 67%57 characters

EU PvP · 56 guilds
Alliance 33%726 charactersHorde 67%1,456 characters
EU Roleplay PvP · 1 guildtoo few to split
Alliance23 charactersHorde0 characters
EU Normal · 33 guilds
Alliance 56%736 charactersHorde 44%573 characters
EU Roleplay · 5 guilds
Alliance 61%130 charactersHorde 39%83 characters

The most played classes

No guild rosters read yet.

Races

Each race belongs to one faction, so beside its share of everyone is its share of its own faction. Every race and its abilities.

No guild rosters read yet.

How it is counted, and its limits

Every figure is a sum over Blizzard’s guild rosters. When the PvP ladder reads a character’s profile, its guild is looked up, and the roster lists every member’s level, class, race and faction.
Each roster is read again about once a day. A guild not read for 14 days drops out, and a guild Blizzard no longer finds is removed.
Characters with no guild, and guilds none of the ladder’s characters is in, are not counted. Low-level characters are the most likely to have no guild, so the real game has more of them than this shows.
It counts characters, not players: one player’s alts count once each. A share resting on fewer than 30 characters is not shown.
No other site’s data is used: only Blizzard’s API and what the AHledger addon sees.

Download the figures (CSV), by region, ruleset, faction, class, race and level band. To cite: “WoW Forever population”, AHledger, https://ahledger.com/wow-forever/population.

Common questions

How many people play WoW Forever?: Blizzard does not publish player counts. What this page can say is that the 197 guilds AHledger has read from Blizzard’s guild API hold 0 characters across the US and EU regions. That counts characters, alts included, and only those in a guild AHledger has found, so the game has more characters than this, and fewer players.
What is the most played class in WoW Forever?: Not enough guild rosters have been read yet to say.
What is the most played race in WoW Forever?: Not enough guild rosters have been read yet to say.
Is WoW Forever Horde or Alliance heavy?: Across both regions and every ruleset the characters in the guilds read are 65% Horde. It differs by ruleset and region; the faction balance page has each one with this week’s PvP kills.
Where do these numbers come from?: From Blizzard’s own guild API. Every guild a character on the AHledger PvP ladder belongs to is looked up, and its roster lists each member’s level, class, race and faction. Rosters are read about once a day, and a guild not read for 14 days drops out. No other site’s data is used.