Many have gone

[Ocsimano18]

Compared to the stats about one month ago, many players have gone. Eg. we had  12148 Massachusetts (black and non black) players a month ago vs 7023 now who had been playing in the last 28 days.

 

Player numbers are next to the ship’s name.

10th of February, EU server T8 stats:

 

21st of March, EU server T8 stats:

[ColonelPete]

That only says that the ship was played less than before....

[Ocsimano18]

Just now, ColonelPete said:

That only says that the ship was played less than before....

It’s true for all ships. E.g. Enterprise down from 1483 to 940, Cossack down from 5032 to 3100, and so on.

[stefanorgano]

I don't have a safe explanation, but I suspect a lot of players opted to play other game modes than randoms last month. I for one played dirigible derby and ranked only and avoided randoms like the plague.

[_HomTanks_]

14 minutes ago, Ocsimano18 said:

It’s true for all ships. E.g. Enterprise down from 1483 to 940, Cossack down from 5032 to 3100, and so on.

i hope it gets down to zero.

[Ocsimano18]

3 minutes ago, stefanorgano said:

I don't have a safe explanation, but I suspect a lot of players opted to play other game modes than randoms last month. I for one played dirigible derby and ranked only and avoided randoms like the plague.

DD was T10, these are T8 stats. Not likely that a T10 mode draws so many T8s away.

[ColonelPete]

It helps to remember what was happening during January.

[Hugh_Ruka]

well wotapi shows a downward trend for the last 3 months ... however I did not check if that's a seasonal thing or not ...

[CV_SUB_Report_Blacklist]

maybe they are grinding pan Asians :D

[Karasu_Browarszky]

26 minutes ago, BlueMerry said:

maybe they are grinding pan Asians :D

 

Don't forget about the Italians.

[Dutchy_2019]

In many countries Covid regulations have been relaxed and/or dropped.

 

Result: MANY people can or have to go into work or can do other activities now for multiple days of the week, reducing playing time directly as well as indirectly.

 

Also, people might be playing other modes (would have loved to play Dirigible Derby more, couldn't because of incompatible grinds) or other ship classes. That said, people on NA are allegedly noticing short matches even during 'normal' playing times.

[SodaBubbles]

I know many have gone. I switched clans on NA, because my own clan suffered a drop after subs hit Randoms the first time. Now I have lost both my longtime Randoms div mates in my old clan, 1 to the rework, 1 to subs. Lost a slew of other people I played with to the rework, and another round of drops now.

The devs are doing their best to kill WOWs. It's a testimony to how good the core game used to be that the game is still viable after all this time despite the run of stupid decisions.

 

 

[FixCVs_Nautical_Metaphor]

It has absolutely nothing to do with current world affairs. Wargaming is definitely not owned by a complicit oligarch and none of these players left in protest of WG continuing to make tons of money in Russia.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-corporations-that-have-pulled-out/

Let alone over absurd security concerns. The mere insinuation is deplorable!

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/15/germany-kaspersky-risk-invasion/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEX3Cull5q0BK2PZZSnvo80OEpfIs4b-guQmICIcfutEClOT5q7Sbkmy2HMiGdhoe6S9kyRlseu47N_icc7DrExTLny9okY4HIGxGUAnvDqBHWHR0KyqlSvuHdRa1ADNaTRu7miFyC3LCW34KRQUMXhCgoD8iq7EYZfG6J5Nt0A5

[Adm_Lindemann]

9 hours ago, ColonelPete said:

That only says that the ship was played less than before....

I checked the player numbers on the EU server on Saturday evening: 20K.

 

As far as I remember, the top number was around 36K - many years back.

[ColonelPete]

1 minute ago, Adm_Lindemann said:

I checked the player numbers on the EU server on Saturday evening: 20K.

 

As far as I remember, the top number was around 36K - many years back.

Singular points in time do not say much.

We also had 20k players sometimes many years back.

 

Fact is, that the game had more players during the past year than many years back.

[Migantium_Mashum]

10 hours ago, ColonelPete said:

That only says that the ship was played less than before....

You cannot deny that currently EU server numbers are lower by a factor of 20%-25%.... I haven't seen a day where the server is nearer 30,000 than 20,000 lately.

[ColonelPete]

6 minutes ago, Migantium_Mashum said:

You cannot deny that currently EU server numbers are lower by a factor of 20%-25%.... I haven't seen a day where the server is nearer 30,000 than 20,000 lately.

Compared to what? Compared to the Christman Frenzy? As it happens every year since 2017?

[Ocsimano18]

5 minutes ago, ColonelPete said:

Compared to what? Compared to the Christman Frenzy? As it happens every year since 2017?

Data is from 28 days back from 11th of February. The 14th of January is back to work/school time already.

[Migantium_Mashum]

4 minutes ago, ColonelPete said:

Compared to what? Compared to the Christman Frenzy? As it happens every year since 2017?

Steady on Colonel, you'll end up soiling your Pants, I meant that the EU server was nearer 30,000 than 20,000 whereas lately it's the other way around....

 

Oh and I have been here since 2016 too you know, you're not the only one, so I know the patterns.

 

 

[ColonelPete]

Just now, Ocsimano18 said:

Data is from 28 days back from 11th of February. Back to work/school time already.

The event was still running.

[Aragathor]

One look at the server stats shows clearly that EU is just having a normal fluctuation. Maybe a bit larger than normal, compared to last two years.

 

However one look at RU, and you just can't ignore the effect of current events. The first thing to go in an economic slump is the entertainment budget.

With the coming changes in Russia, we can almost bet as to when the RU server will collapse. The change in player numbers is too abrupt to ignore.

 

The problem with WoWS is that glorious Russian devs who can do no wrong and never make mistakes, don't listen to feedback and continue on their course.

A very Russian trait that elsewhere is causing massive issues and a hike in sunflower seed spread.

[ColonelPete]

Just now, Migantium_Mashum said:

Steady on Colonel, you'll end up soiling your Pants, I meant that the EU server was nearer 30,000 than 20,000 whereas lately it's the other way around....

Once again, what times do you compare?

Singular comparisson do not say much. We had an 38k peak last December. The only time we had more players on the server was when the game launched in 2015.

[Adm_Lindemann]

28 minutes ago, ColonelPete said:

Singular points in time do not say much.

We also had 20k players sometimes many years back.

 

Fact is, that the game had more players during the past year than many years back.

Yes, the numbers doesn't say anything - let's just get rid of them... 

[ColonelPete]

Just now, Adm_Lindemann said:

Yes, the numbers doesn't say anything - let's just get rid of them... 

If one is unable to make a structured comparission or establish context, then yes, some people are better without numbers.

[Adm_Lindemann]

4 minutes ago, ColonelPete said:

If one is unable to make a structured comparission or establish context, then yes, some people are better without numbers.

The fact is that Ocsimano provided a context, so if you still don't believe to the numbers, then your rule applies to you...

 

You don't have to believe to any data someone else is providing, you can do it by yourself - maybe you will believe to your data.