Using the mmo-population site for information about Guild Wars is 100% useless. The site is not transparent in how it gets it's data so to give it a platform in a GW video is very misleading.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GuildWars/co…_shows/fp59xwr/
When the same site was mentioned in Reddit in May 2020 it has more explanation about where the data was from and I wrote this. Turns out it uses Reddit subreddit data to make up the stats on the site.
-My post from Reddit:
It is really frustrating when innacurate data is attempted to be passed off as facts. This site is not transparent at all.
Someone shared this in Discord the other day (10th April) and the site had a slightly different design and it was easier to find their calculation for estimating MMO numbers.
This is a quote from the site previous to the redesign:
Now their 'Data' page just says they use "sentiment analysis" from an AI... whatever that means. If someone could actually find out how they get their figures that would be great. The fact the url still uses the /r/ guildwars url leads me to believe it is still using Reddit data.
Before the site was just pulling Reddit data analytics and showed how popular a games subreddit was, not the game.
There is no way that any of the numbers on the GuildWars page are accurate.
Anet/NCSoft has never published user number for GuildWars. The only official numbers come from sales of the game.
edit:
Here is what the site used to look like, unfortunately web.archive only got data July 2019.
https://web.archive.org/web/2019073006…com/r/GuildWars
The About page as it used to be:
https://web.archive.org/web/2019052112…ation.com/about
MMOStats also doesn't publish where it gets it's data from to make up these numbers. So to pass them off as even possible accurate data is incredibly misleading.