How many players does a server hold?

[NiteRyder]

Hey just wondering how many players a server/realm holds?

Thanks all!

[Darien Talem]

Blizz has never released exact details, however judging off of back in the DAY when EQ showed it's number population and with how many people WoW has and the advance in technology, my guess would be several thousand before it peeks out. Maybe 10k for all we know.

[Unknowable]

you used to be able to type in /who server and get an entire list of everyone logged in on your faction (horde/alliance). i don't know if you can still do this, but if you can, figure that on most servers there's a 1/1 to 1.5/1 alliance to horde ratio (this is an estimate only, don't hole me to it), add the numbers, and you've got a rough estimate of the population of your server

[DarthMuffin]

/who has always been capped to 49 for me. I guess it's somewhere in the thousands, but 10k is too much I think.

[Justinledwards]

I looked at wowcensus and it showed about 16,000 on my server (12k alliance, 4k horde). Don't know how accurate those stats are tho

[icutyoubad]

My server has 14,000 players on it. The older, full servers have upwards of 30,000 players.

[Chunderpants]

Crikey - and I can still never find a group.

People must really hate me!

[Azaha]

lol here here !! must be my green moustache!? Which are the old servers? Anyone on aggrammar? How many on aggrammar?

[UndeadRogue]

Originally Posted by icutyoubad

My server has 14,000 players on it. The older, full servers have upwards of 30,000 players.

Are you quoting this for a fact ?
Not saying you're wrong here, but damn...
I never would have thought it would amount up to that much !!!

[Hettar]

What you need to take into account is that there is three kind of numbers here:
* the maximum number of players that can be logged in at a given time.
* the maximum number of player that the realm can store.
* the numbers of characters created on this realm (that's what ow-census gives afaik).