WoW Classic has absolutely dominated Twitch since its release

If you think you’re big on nostalgia you should take a look at the overwhelming support World of Warcraft Classic has received from its community.

Something strange is happening on Twitch. The most-watched gaming on the site in the past few weeks hasn’t been Fortnite, or CS:GO, or League of Legends, or any of the other esports darlings — which is almost unheard-of for the site. Instead, the game everyone’s spent the most time watching, by a significant margin, is a little MMO you may have heard of called World of Warcraft.

Since it’s release late last month, players have watched over 55 million hours of WoW Classic content on Twitch. According to statistics gathered by Sullygnome.com, WoW Classic has absolutely dominated Twitch since its release.

Ordinarily anything with this kind of a spike in viewership would be a bit suspect — rumor has it that one of the reasons Apex Legends had a lead on Fortnite shortly after its release was that streamers had been paid to switch over to Apex for a while. But I think in this case it’s just good, old-fashioned nostalgia.

On top of having 55 million hours watched in barely a week’s time, Classic’s average viewer count has been around 380,000. To put that in perspective that is more similar to a viewer count you would expect to see from Fortnite as a whole or a major League of Legends event. Besides the anticipation from the WoW community, part of the reason for the huge spike could be thanks to some of the names streaming the game.

Meanwhile, another incentive that kept people watching was the question of who would be the first player to hit the level 60 cap, and that appears to have been Jokerd. It remains to be seen if all these interested viewers will stick around now once the ceiling has been hit and the raids have been completed. But I think the fact that a 15-year-old game managed to catch and hold such interest at all is an achievement in and of itself.

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