Population data from the Live Letter

[Ryuni]

1,080,000 Total Unique Logins.... I wonder how the WoW players are taking this number

Why would they care and why do you care what they think?

What does this have anything to do with other MMOs?

[Fleoming]

wow the data is really interesting~

[Dilu_Bakari]

Why would they care and why do you care what they think?

What does this have anything to do with other MMOs?

Being that WoW is suppose to be "so much better"

[Valsh]

Being that WoW is suppose to be "so much better"

Better is subjective, it's different and still a good game in its own right.

[MartaDemireux]

A lot less SCH than I was expecting! :O

[Jynx]

The whole average level thing is massively skewed because they are counting all jobs on a single character. I'd like to see the % of players with at least one job/craft/gather to 50.

[SakuraInoue]

I'm really impressed by the fact that we EU/NA made MORE kitties than the Japanese. O.o

(I know I'm a guilty cat)

[Shirai]

Those are quite interesting statistics to have for now.
But I would love to compare these to the data we'll get to see one year from now.

[Theref]

Yeah I feels like changing my race from Hyur to Elf or Roegadyn

[Riko_113]

I'm very surprised about the tank/healer %

As a whm my queue time shot up to 20+minutes after 30. And every tank I know is instant queue all the way to 50.

So I suppose the statistics are leaving out VERY important information on the server. The overwhelming number of healers that actually do instances compared to the overwhelming number of newb tanks that seem to think the game consists of FATE zerging so they don't actually do dungeons.

That could be due to the fact that 30+ scholars are also allowed to queue as a healer.

That's exactly what I thought, except the charts above clearly show that there are more Tanks in the game than healers total. So the queue times don't add up purely by the listed statistics alone.