Blizzard has identified two records for World of Warcraft: Forever. In a post from the official Warcraft account, it said Forever had the highest peak of simultaneous players at any WoW launch. It also reported more returning players than at any point in the game’s history. Blizzard published neither figure.
What a peak concurrent record measures
Peak concurrency counts the largest number of people online at the same moment. A player who logs in after that peak still played during launch week, but their session does not increase that earlier peak. Blizzard’s comparison puts Forever ahead of previous WoW launches on this measure. It leaves the size of the lead open.
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What Blizzard said about returning players
The second claim concerns people coming back to WoW. Blizzard did not specify how long someone had to be away to qualify or the period over which it counted returns. Some returning players could also have been online at the busiest moment. Adding the two measures would count different things and could count the same person twice.
Forever opened globally on November 4. For players coming back now, our guide to Forever’s rulesets and first raids explains the choices at character creation and what opens next.
