With World of Warcraft Patch 9.1 live for a couple of weeks, has it changed the minds of many players? The answer is complicated. Despite these numbers looking good on paper, some players have said that releasing Classic during Battle for Azeroth was one of the “worst possible thing it could do regarding retail.” At the time of writing, WoW Classic has a player base of 25 million and a daily player base of 1.72 million.
However, the stagnant wait for World of Warcraft Patch 9.1, which launched at the end of June, left players migrating to The Burning Crusade. Not only this, but they are appealing to older player bases with the release of WoW Classic and most recently the release of The Burning Crusade on June 1, allowing players to step into the dark portal once again.
World of Warcraft is one of the largest online MMO communities, with statistics estimating they have a player base of 117 million and a daily player count of 3.3 million at the time of writing (Blizzard won’t share official statistics), which puts them at the top of all MMOs.
