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[Stormpeaks]

You have to be absolutely insane to believe this game has 20mil active players. WoW in its prime had like.. 24mil? And that was during a time where MMOs were actually popular. Luckybencho lists like what, 1,5mil active characters? And that includes alts.

yeah no, those numbers are literally impossible to even fit properly in this game, but it is at around 1.5 mil as you said, nowhere near 20 mil, that is some gigantic copium lmao