Before the Start of WildStar: Numbers from the Beta

The last opportunity to play WildStar before the head start on May 31 is coming to an end. The Ops Week is nearly over and the characters from the beta will soon be history.

There are already some figures from the closed beta that can provide insights into the future of WildStar.

Are the players evenly distributed among the races, factions, and paths?

For Carbine, it’s certainly pleasant to see that the distribution among the paths is quite balanced. The Soldier was the most chosen with 31%, while the Settler was chosen the least. The paths allow players to emphasize certain aspects of their MMO experience.

The distribution among the races is somewhat more varied. With 8 races available, each should account for 12.5% of the player base if distributed evenly. However, the Stoned Granok were represented with only 8%, while the Aurin were at 18%.

Like in many games, the trend towards “humanoid” races continues in WildStar: alongside the Aurin, both the Exiles and the Cassians are above average with 17% and 14% respectively. When assigning the races to factions, 56% of the characters created in the closed beta belonged to the Exiles and 44% to the Dominion.

It can be assumed that the distribution of these numbers has not significantly changed since the closed beta.

How many players were there in the closed beta? How many joined later?

More than 1.6 million characters were already created in the closed beta – that’s more inhabitants than in all of Estonia. Players racked up 5.7 million play hours – equivalent to over 60 years. 130,000 houses were created in the complex housing system.

Unfortunately, there are no exact numbers from the open beta yet. On May 12, it was reported that since the start of the open beta, 1.9 million “NEW” characters had already been created.

Since the beta continued for some time, one can speculate that perhaps a total of 4 million characters were created in the beta. How many players there ultimately were and how many of them will flock to Nexus at launch is hard to say.

In the last MMO, The Elder Scrolls Online, it was reported that 5 million players had already visited Tamriel in the beta (noting that these are players, not just characters as in the statistics for WildStar). Before the launch, experts estimated that between 1 and 2 million of them would also be present at release.

Finally, the infographic with the numbers from the closed beta should not be missed:

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