How many of 75 quasi-random players that played in April on Kronos are still playing?

I have always been interested in the players leaving the World of Warcraft server Kronos and their motives.

Back on the 20th April 2016 at 06:51 Server Time I made two /who queries which identified 75 unique quasi-random players. I decided to see which of those have stayed on the server and played in the last month, as defined by a "Recent Activity" done after the 04.09.2016 on the Kronos server armory (http://armory.twinstar.cz/).

To put this information back into context, using my History of Kronos as reference, this was a bit after the end of the Nostalrius vanilla private server (10th of April), during the War Effort (March - August 2016) and after a huge increase (over 100% more online players than usual) in the Kronos playerbase coming from Nostalrius, many of which also chinese. A queue started appearing for players, sometimes going over 4000+ and the server crashed many times (potentially due to DDoS attacks). Specifically, the 20th of April was the day the server data got moved to a different location (for safety purposes?). On the 27th of April, K2 opened and during May the server got heavily DDoS attacked and stayed offline for days.

First, the players :

Ytz, Erimmbank, Jyo, Redditlordx, Broxus, Babyspice, Mitzburn, Bez, Dobia, Valvet, Lokin, Pappadukes, Spielvogel, Hemondonn, Taurabullpun, Ruknaros, Cyreal, Piemasta, Fahrenheidt, Sagami, Akxx, Ailad, Foxconn, Terribad, Bushinaode, Looz, Untimelymage, Yerp, Emp, Hellmoss, Totemsrus, Gharok, Ugotboned, Aseltan, Mirakel, Milizia, Saralie, Coldly, Cocomm, Sfox, Horncena, Ghosttrain, Nekollacek, Grenka, Lavieensky, Tamzyn, Clammyhands, Darthsidius, Gresser, Hordubal, Hydropwnix, Regressus, Kovadlinka, Maxialadi, Abuseless, Freephonebz, Vllegion, Yemeng, Ribtickler, Masakrowiec, Groggamoth, Heavus, Getthepk, Careylilisa, Orianne, Tojora, Purei, Katos, Bahceli, Talena, Billebob, Bish, Haivo, Shadowsaint, Tekai

Their status

Too low level to be displayed : 21
No activity shown : 1 (level 24)
Character doesn't exist anymore : 4
Banned : 2
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Total  : 28 (37.3%)

Last activity recorded
 

April : 19 (level 21, 19, 20, 20, 19, 33, 27, 45, 60, 60, 60, 20, 25, 24, 24, 33, 37, 60, 60)
May : 8 (level 33, 27, 44, 29, 36, 49, 60, 60)
June : 5 (level 27, 53, 56, 60, 60)
July : 2 (level 46, 60)
August : 4 (level 60, 60, 60, 35)

Active : 9 (level 60, 60, 60, 60, 56, 60, 60 (Alliance player now), 60, 60)

A couple things to keep in mind : characters could have been sold, players could still be playing but with a different character, someone else could be playing the character (like mine, which is still active but that I no longer play), the character might still be playing but without doing activities that are displayed by the armory, the characters selected could be profession or bank alts.

With that in mind we can see that most characters stopped their activities in April, which I suppose is due to latency, queues and not being that happy with Kronos compared with Nostalrius. Another group of players left during May, probably during the unfortunate DDoS attacks and downtime. Most players didn't make it to 60 (with 21 or 28% never making it to level 19) and most of them resumed their activities on their characters. Either level 60 players stayed or players that make it to level 60 tend to stay for longer.

Interestingly only 12% of the recorded characters are now level 19+ and active. One player seems to have changed faction to go to the Alliance. 2 players (2.7%) got banned. 4 players deleted their characters (5.3%).