How many chinese/asians players are there on Kronos?

There is talk on the Kronos forums about waves of "chinese" players, with some going as far as to say that there are more than NA players. As a reference I have currently identified 13 different chinese guilds on the server. Also, over roughly 15 days my Census has got me to a total of 10,000 different characters seen on the Horde side on the server. Let us see how prevalent those "chinese" players are according to those numbers.


Census data on the 10th april (a bit after this article).

MOON (258)
Life is but a dream (103)
Never ends (67)
Lost Temple (63)
Horde Time (58)
Papapa (46)
Lares of Azeroth (38)
Firstblood (35)
Home (34)Together (25)
Fuurin Kazan (22)
Aliliance forever (13)
Tomorrowland (10)
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Total = 772 "chinese" characters in guilds, or about 7.8% of all characters seen on the Horde side.

Assuming they weren't on the server before Nostalrius went down this is a pretty substantial amount of players created over only 3 days. But our online population also nearly tripled and an incredible influx of EU/US players also happened.

Now, let us try to see what that gives in terms of players online... My census was showing a nice 2300 players on the Horde side after 17 minutes of data gathering (9th april, 23:44 ST).

MOON (21)
Life is but a dream (11)
Never ends (2)
Lost Temple (0)
Horde Time (7)
Papapa (5)
Lares of Azeroth (1)
Firstblood (2)
Home (9)
Together (2)
Fuurin Kazan (6)
Aliliance forever (0)
Tomorrowland (1)
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Total =  67 characters, or about 2.91% of all Horde characters currently online (23:44 ST, 9th April 2016). This is an off-hour for China, 6AM morning for them.

Round 2, it is now 07:50 AM, ST, or 14:00 in China, Census gives me 1576 Horde characters online. Added "Dear friends" to the chinese guilds.

MOON (127)
Life is but a dream (33)
Never ends (35)
Lost Temple (30)
Horde Time (31)
Papapa (36)
Lares of Azeroth (19)
Firstblood (20)
Home (20)
Together (12)
Fuurin Kazan (4)
Aliliance forever (3)
Tomorrowland (7)
Dear friends (10)
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Total =  387 characters, or about 24.6% of all Horde characters currently online (07:50 AM, ST, 10th April 2016).

*Updated* The amount of online chinese players compared to all others seems quite substantial (over 25%) when in the afternoon but low (3%) at their off-hours. This only takes into account those with a guild.

After discussing with a player from China, it seems that their peak population should happen in their mornings near 10AM, which translates to 4AM for Europe.

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