The Front

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World of Warcraft Classic

The Front is a survival open-world shooter developed by Samar Studio. It launched in 2023 to average interest, but as an indie game in a highly competitive survival genre, it did not make major waves or maintain a top player base. Its Steam player counts have been modest, with daily active users likely in the low thousands in 2024. It does not qualify as an MMO, as its servers support limited numbers of concurrent players and lack large-scale persistent world features typical of MMOs.

World of Warcraft Classic, released in 2019 by Blizzard Entertainment, is a major MMORPG revival of the original WoW experience. The game continues to have a robust, though markedly smaller, player base than at launch, thanks to a steady cycle of classic content and expansions (like Wrath of the Lich King Classic). As an MMORPG developed and maintained by a top-tier publisher, it sees strong retention, but is several years past launch and shares its community with retail WoW. Given this, an estimate in the 200,000–250,000 daily player range is reasonable as of 2024.