Why is this happening?

[asdfcv]

Every1 outside this warmane forums i saying that warmane fakes population, why is that? competition?

[Zelta]

Some competition, fortunately some understand that we are actually not. Then, their most loyal members start spreading these false news up to the point that make others believe it.

There's always plenty of people in realm's Azeroth, forum activity, bug reports etc. I will not go into details about stuff that is within our control because we could have cheated that too, right?

Let me show you something which is not biased towards any WoW rating. Alexa ranking:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/warmane.com#trafficstats
Competition - http://www.alexa.com/find-similar-si...te=warmane.com

But there is more behind this stats, Alexa stats are mostly based on visitors and visits. We are #1 without a voting system (not to say the servers who actually rent bots to vote for them which helps towards these stats).

That is another rating system, there are many:
http://website.informer.com/warmane.com

That does not proof still that our population is 20-24k online at peaks times, but from this point you can make your own research at WoW servers you actually trust and make your own calculations to find out ours is right. I cannot do this for you for 2 reasons: - you would say I am biased - I cannot link other private server (it is against our ToS).

If you are still willing to do further research:
- Times our server has been mentioned in social networks (like Reedit or Facebook)
- Google ranking

Lastly, kind of funny detail, some of the "big" "populated" servers that say so, tend to have mismatching stats.
Again, I will not write down any names but every time you enter one of their pages, make sure to check both online players and forum online users. Their stats tend to differ so much (like 1:100 or more) that it makes it really hard to believe that they are not cheating one way or another. It is obvious that most people will be in-game, but generally they tend to be 1:10 or so.

[Selaya]

the fun fact is that even if you were to assume that 1/2 of moltens pop is fake, it still dwarfs most any other server; realistically speaking a 6,000 pop server will play out much the same as a 12,000 would - players everywhere

[asdfcv]

I expected to be banned for asking this kind of question. What a vast response, i believe you <3