I Tried to Measure Warmane’s REAL Population

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:08]Hello. Hello. Today we're going to check a myth about the Warman player base. And this has been discussed for the past decade or so. Are the numbers real? So, let's go on the website and check.

[00:00:25]Currently, it's 8:24 a.m. and we can see that we have around 5,800 or maybe 900 players in Ice Crown. If we go here on information, we can see that the population is a little bit more Horde, 4% more Horde players. And I found a way that we can check this and do some myth busting. So here in the game you can see I've developed a add-on that we can use to track the population on warm main.

[00:01:05]Before we start, I need to say here it's really hard to do this because when you type slash who, you can see that you can find uh wait a second only 31 people on Iron Fortune. But if you do it uh globally without a filter, you can see only 50 people. So if you try to let's say Daran to search for Dawaran to see how many many people there is in Daaran. Wait, we need to wait 10 more seconds.

[00:01:45]You're going to see that Warmain has actually limited us into seeing not more than 50 people. Okay, you can see 50 people in Dan, but there is a lot more people in Dan currently here.

[00:02:00]You have some different modes. You have a fast scan for alliance players, fast scan for horde players. Uh this is not uh good to use on war because as I told you there is no filters here. So for cities like Stormwind, Ogrimar or Daran, it's not going to show the whole numbers. But here these functions alliance court or both these are smart functions and let's say for stormwind or for daran it's going to search class by class every player. So at the end we're going to get a number that is really close to the actual number of online players. Keep in mind that this scan is going to take uh at least 50 minutes to complete because uh I'm going to start it right now so you can see there is 112 different zones that need to be scanned for alliance. This includes raids, dungeons, and battlegrounds. And the problem is that by the time that we get to let's say number 50 on the list, there might be more people in Storwind than before and etc. So at the end we're going to add at least 20% to the final number that we get here. As you can see now it's doing a search first for Warriors and Stormwind after that for Paladins and Stormwind and etc. That way, we're going to get as close as possible to the actual number. So, I'm not going to show you the entire footage of 50 minutes. I'm going to pause the video now and I'm going to return back when we're uh close to finished. Uh I want to say some words about the advanced search options that you get here. Here you can pick whatever you want. uh let's say stormwood, iron forge or you maybe can add all of them and you can do a custom search here. You can track how much time is it's scanning so far. You can see the mode here and here is the next zone. Here is the current zone and the class if there is any class filter applied.

[00:04:29]So for now we have 61 people in Stormwind so far.

[00:04:37]Let's see what the final number is going to be. So the scan finally finished. And as you can see for 56 minutes and 0 seconds exactly, we managed to find 889 players. And here, as you can see, I've included all of the battlegrounds, all of the raids in Wrath of the Lich King. I've excluded the TBC raids and the vanilla dungeons. And that's why we're going to add, let's say, 30%.

[00:05:12]We're even going to add 30%, guys, because some of the zones are excluded.

[00:05:16]Yeah, but how many people Let's say, let's check Dotar. How many alliance players are you going to see on durar or inar or in thunderb let's say so let's say that there is 30% more people than this because as you can see strand of the arati base in ice Ice crown citadel pit of sonon forge of souls kink of stratome every single dungeon raid and battleground is included except for the TBC ones and the vanilla ones but how many people are you going to find there.

[00:05:51]And here is the class filter. And Daram first it checks uh first it checks for warriors, poweradins, and Daram, rogues, priests, dead knights, shamans, mages, warlocks, druids, and etc. The final number is 891.

[00:06:13]Let's open up the calculator.

[00:06:16]891 + 30%.

[00:06:25]Equals 1,158 people for the alliance. Okay, so now we are on our horde character in our run.

[00:06:36]We're going to type / R&T.

[00:06:39]We're going to set the interval at least to 30 seconds, guys, because we might miss out on uh some of the searches just to be sure.

[00:06:49]And now we're going to click.

[00:06:52]So, the scan begins now. Wait, let me make this frame smaller. And we're going to leave the add-on to do its own thing now. So, the search is finally completed for the horde players. And as you can see, we have 964 players found.

[00:07:14]So, we're going to open up Notepad now and we're going to write Wait a second.

[00:07:20]Let me see. It's 1,158 alliance.

[00:07:27]Now, let's calculate the Horde. 964 plus 30% 1,253.

[00:07:38]And now let's calculate both of the alliance in the horde numbers. 1,158 equals a total of 2,411 confirmed people. These are let's say confirmed numbers. And let's add another let's say 10% on top of all of this just to be sure.

[00:08:06]Uh oops. Plus 10%.

[00:08:11]And this is the total number. Let's see what the site says.

[00:08:17]Wait, let me refresh this. The site says 6,26 players in total.

[00:08:25]Like guys, you already saw I added a lot of people more to this list. As I told you, for 56 minutes, a lot of changes occur, but that's why I've added 30% more both to the Alliance and the Horde players. And on top of all, I added another 10%. Just to be sure. And this is our final our final number, 2,663.

[00:08:53]So if this is true or not, I'm not sure.

[00:08:58]Like yeah, there is a lot of people in game. Also in this number, I didn't mention the TBC and the vanilla dungeons, but guys, I've added more than 30% uh to the total number. And also I want to say that these names here are unique names that you see right here.

[00:09:19]uh it let's say imagine that somebody who is in Ograr decides to join u let's say uh a battleground aisle of conquest it will not uh record his name two times it's only the unique names that you see here this is just a statistic video with a add-on that I've made so only war main truly know how many people are actually currently playing.

[00:09:51]Basically, that's going to be it, guys.

[00:09:53]Thanks for watching. If you want to see more videos like this, me uh testing out some other myths, use the comment section and tell me what you think. See you in the next