Brazil surge and mixed holdouts define a quiet week
Average concurrency was flat, but several Portuguese-language servers both arrived and vanished while a handful of mid‑week trajectories merit watching.
Global average concurrency barely moved: 147,179 players (up from 147,058). The week’s shape was ordinary — weekdays lower, weekend stronger — but beneath that calm were sharp, local rearrangements. A cluster of Portuguese-language servers accounts for the most visible churn: big new appearances, some huge single‑day jumps, and several sizable servers that stopped appearing. A smaller set of servers showed the sort of steady daily growth that, if it continues, will matter next week.
The week
Average concurrent players by day of week. Bars are scaled to the week's own range, not from zero.
The headline numbers are inert: average concurrency 147,179 (previous week 147,058), a 0.1% rise, with a peak of 228,429 and roughly 32,602 servers online on average. The weekday pattern remained familiar — Monday through Thursday sit below the weekend, with Saturday and Sunday higher (Mon 147,044 → Sun 161,062) — and the weekend did not produce an outsized divergence from the rest of the week. The real movement lives in regional and server-level shifts. pt-BR expanded its share to 21.2% (126,020 players), growing relative to the prior week, and th-TH and en-US also hold material shares. Server-size distribution at week’s close still shows the long tail: most endpoints remain empty or tiny (Empty: 437,788; 1–10: 151,948), while 258 servers sit above 500 players. That concentration helps explain why a handful of Portuguese-language and Thai servers can change week‑level impressions without moving the global average much. In short: the market was steady at the macro level, but the week contained pronounced local churn and several visibly persistent growth trajectories that deserve a second week of tracking.
Who moved, and whether it held
This week’s most persuasive growth trajectories are those that rose repeatedly across multiple days rather than producing a single spike. The clearest example is The Palms: it grew on 6/6 days and finished the week at an average of 374 players (prev week 91, +310.1%), with a near‑steady daily climb (299→436). That continuous lift is the most credible sustained trajectory in the dataset. CIDADE ALTA WIPOU HOJE also grew on 6/6 days (avg 209, prev 54, +284.4%) but its shape is a mid‑week ramp (2→332) — sizable and then sustained through the weekend; NEXUS made a mid-week jump and held higher levels through the weekend, moving from double digits early in the week to 583→626 at the top end (avg 373, prev 99, +278.1%). SPACE TOWN and OMEGA CITY each grew on 5/6 days (SPACE TOWN avg 745, +106; OMEGA CITY avg 553, +103) and represent the steady Thai-region gains we’ve been tracking across recent weeks. Villa Roleplay and 01 Roleplay WL FECHADA are additional cases of multi‑day growth (Villa Roleplay grew on 5/6 days to avg 110 from 1; one “01 Roleplay” entry shows growth to 169 avg from 0 across 5/6 days). By contrast, the largest absolute jump in raw players — LIGA DAS TROPAS (avg 755, prev 278, +477) — grew on only 1/6 days and reads as a single‑night surge rather than a sustained ramp. The dataset contains at least one naming ambiguity: an entry called 01 Roleplay WL FECHADA appears in both growth and shrink lists with different baselines; that prevents a clean single conclusion for that label without further de-duplication. Overall, the week separates those who ‘grew on most days’ (The Palms, CIDADE ALTA, SPACE TOWN, OMEGA CITY, Villa Roleplay) from one-off spikes that will need repeat performance to be meaningful.
Grew over the week
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The leaderboard
Rank movement this week is dominated by enormous upward jumps from servers that were either first seen recently or reappeared after being off-index. 01 Roleplay WL FECHADA moved to rank 110 from 33,002 — a 32,892-place climb — and several other large rank climbs (FrF Fight Rp, MAFIA LATINA, REWIND ROLEPLAY, default FXServer) follow the same pattern: big jumps from low prior positions into visible ranking. Those moves usually correspond with servers that report non-trivial averages but had minimal or no presence in the previous snapshot. On the downside, a cluster of steep falls includes named servers that dropped thousands of ranks (🔔Streets Of Carolina🔔 fell to rank 32,148 from 718; DUX PVP to 31,991 from 1,148; Bertioga Roleplay to 30,477 from 760). Those falls can reflect either rapid declines in players, delisting, or reclassification; the week’s went-dark list (below) confirms that outright disappearances are part of the story. A key pattern: the leaderboard’s largest absolute rank moves are driven by flux at the margins — newly large or newly absent servers — rather than incremental shifts among the longstanding top lists.
Climbed
| Server | Rank | Week before | Climb |
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 01 Roleplay WL FECHADA | #110 | #33,002 |
Arrivals and departures
New server arrivals that remained visible at the week’s close include multiple high‑traffic Portuguese-language launches and a handful of regionals: A Lisboa é o maior servidor do mundo com wl fechada. (first seen 2026-08-12, present 5/7 days, avg 852, peak 1,606), LIGA DAS TROPAS ➜ discord.gg/ligadastropas SALA 1 (first seen 2026-08-15, present 2/7 days, avg 852, peak 2,047), DZ7 ROLEPLAY WIPE 🡺 WL FECHADA (first seen 2026-08-12, present 5/7 days, avg 762), REVOADA RIO DE JANEIRO WIPOU (first seen 2026-08-10, present 7/7 days, avg 434), and several smaller regionals and language communities. At the same time the week produced a non‑trivial went‑dark list: entries that had real averages in recent sampling and then stopped appearing include LIGA DAS TROPAS - SALA 1 (last seen 2026-08-03, was averaging 1,085), A Lisboa é o maior servidor do mundo com wl fechada. (last seen 2026-08-12, was averaging 949), DZ7 ROLEPLAY WIPE 🡺 WL FECHADA (last seen 2026-08-12, was averaging 843) and a number of other mid‑to‑large servers across pt-BR and th-TH. Multiple large Portuguese-language servers entered and exited the index this week; the provided lists contain repeated or near‑identical names (for example, multiple LIGA DAS TROPAS rows and multiple A Lisboa entries), which suggests either parallel instances, renaming, or tracking ambiguity. Regardless, the week’s churn is concentrated: a small set of Portuguese-language servers accounted for both many of the week’s biggest arrivals and several of its most consequential disappearances.
New servers that survived the week
| Server | First seen | Days present | Avg. players |
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What to watch
What to watch next week: first, the handful of servers that grew on most days — The Palms (6/6), CIDADE ALTA (6/6), SPACE TOWN (5/6), OMEGA CITY (5/6) and Villa Roleplay (5/6) — need another week of repeated daily growth to convert short‑term momentum into a durable trend. Second, NEXUS’s mid‑week jump and subsequent weekend hold is exactly the pattern that distinguishes a true change of state from a single promotion night; persistence at the elevated level will confirm a shift. Third, large single‑day surges such as LIGA DAS TROPAS should be treated skeptically until they replicate: it grew on 1/6 days despite a large weekly gain. Finally, the Portuguese-language cluster requires careful watching: several high‑visibility names appear in both the newcomers and went‑dark lists, and repeated presence (or absence) in our next snapshots will resolve whether these are relaunches, multiple instances, or stable new communities. For server operators, the practical test is simple — repeat the performance across multiple adjacent days. A one‑night peak will not move ranking or regional share; continuous daily gains will.
What to take away
- Average concurrency was 147,179 players, a 0.1% increase from the prior week.
- pt-BR increased its share to 21.2% of players (12,6020), the largest regional share this week.
- The Palms grew on 6/6 days, finishing the week at an average of 374 players (up from 91, +310.1%).
- Several high‑visibility Portuguese-language servers appear both in the week’s newcomers and in the list of servers that went dark.
- SPACE TOWN and OMEGA CITY grew on 5/6 days and finished the week higher than the prior week.
- A set of large rank jumps are concentrated on recently first-seen or reappearing servers rather than long-established tops.
