Faction balance and economy size
The WoW Forever economy
Blizzard publishes no population figures for World of Warcraft: Forever, so this page measures what can be measured: the auction houses. Across every region there are 2,603,707 live auctions and an estimated 848,621g 59s changed hands in the last 7 hours. The busiest economy is EU PvP, and the most one-sided is KR Normal, where the Alliance house handles 78% of faction trade.
What this can and cannot tell you
These figures describe trading, not head counts. A faction with a few very active traders can outweigh a larger faction that rarely uses the auction house, and players of both factions use the Blackwater house. Read a 60 : 40 split as "the Alliance market is about half as big again", not as "60% of players are Alliance".
Gold traded is an estimate from hourly snapshots and includes some cancelled auctions. Value on sale counts only items that sold in the last day, at their market price. Status is what Blizzard's API reports for each ruleset and is checked every hour. How the numbers work.
Questions
Which faction is bigger in WoW Forever?
It depends on the region and ruleset. By auction house trade over the last 24 hours, the most one-sided is KR Normal, where the Alliance house handles 78% of the gold traded between the two faction houses. The table on this page shows every ruleset.
Is there population data for WoW Forever?
No. Blizzard does not publish player counts, realm populations or who is online for World of Warcraft: Forever. The closest public signal is the auction house: how many auctions each faction has listed and how much gold changes hands. That is what this page measures.
How is faction balance worked out?
Every ruleset has an Alliance house, a Horde house and the cross-faction Blackwater house. We compare the estimated gold traded on the Alliance house with the Horde house over the last 24 hours. It measures trading activity, not the number of characters, and Blackwater trade is shown separately because both factions use it.
How is gold traded estimated?
Blizzard publishes a snapshot of every auction about once an hour but no sales. An auction that disappears while it still had time left was bought or cancelled, and we count it as sold at its listed price, capped at three times the item's usual price so joke listings do not count.
What does value on sale mean?
The number of units listed multiplied by each item's market price, counting only items that sold in the last day. Asking prices nobody pays are left out.
