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WoW Midnight: Mythic+ runs fall 45% in Europe after Forever
Run data shows Mythic+ activity in Europe down by 45% in the week WoW Forever launched, with drops of up to 70% at quieter hours.
The launch of WoW Forever has pulled a large share of players away from Mythic+ in Midnight. These figures come from one analysis of public run-tracking data, and Blizzard has not published numbers of its own.
120 hours after the US weekly reset, the hourly run count in Europe was down by 45.05% on the week before. The US was down by 40.94% and China by only 18.74%. In local morning to early afternoon hours the drop in Europe reached 70%, and 63% in the US, while at peak gaming hours both regions were still about 57% below the previous week.
The fall started before Forever. In week 11, the last normal week before launch, global runs dropped by 25.65%, and Europe fell furthest at 30.70% after a surge of 18.99% in week 10, when players were grinding for Venomstones. The analysis says many players already feel they have finished the season, with the Keystone Myth title at 3,600 rating locked in.
The current drop is in line with earlier moments when a second version of the game opened. Mythic+ activity fell by 46.31% when Legion Remix launched, and by 36.00% after WoW Classic arrived in 2019. Heroic raiding is also down, but nowhere near as sharply as Mythic+.
A late push is still possible: the analysis expects some players to return for the 12.1.7 Folio upgrade in the final weeks of the season, around and after Christmas, especially those chasing the top 5% and top 1% titles.
