Quote Originally Posted by JesseS View Post
A current gen WoW realm generally has around 5-35k characters on it total ... If I remember correctly I think XI servers did around 1-2k on average?
I saw almost 3500 online on FFXI during one of its busiest times. Before a world merge it had dropped to around 1800 I think. The game did have login queues, but I only saw them once or twice over many years. When ToAU hit, we did manage to pack almost 900 into a single zone during the first Besiegeds, but the system operators got really edgy at that point. (They were ejecting people to an adjacent zone, after a stern system message warning of course.)

FWIW, my "whole lot more than 5000" guesstimate above wasn't anywhere near 35000.