Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
While I do not think much about the claims made in this thread, I don't think it's fair to disqualify free-to-play players after the 5.3 update as they are playing the entire base game and its first expansion. They are definitely part of the community, in roulettes and other contents even with the existing restrictions.
The issue here is that after 5.4 LB census was at ~900k. If we want to consider that number legitimate; that would mean a majority of MMO-P's active playerbase is outside of LB's wide criteria meaning they are mostly F2P, sub-60s, or level 70 boosts with no activity on them.

You would be very very very hardpressed to make the claim that about 1.5 million people fit either of those three criteria since all three would be considered the lesser end of the spectrum; especially since LB estimated around 100,000 new player created which would be a decrease.

So either:
1) There was some random huge surge of players in 5.5 that wouldnt match any projection of data possible going into a 6-month major patch drought
2) MMO-P numbers are complete BS.