Found this on the offical AoC forums, and for those that wonder how many players play AoC now here are the details:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/abriael...34540/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abriael...34704/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abriael...34902/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abriael...34800/sizes/o/

truelife wrote:The data you'll find in the charts below has been polled by creating a character in each european server of Age of Conan, reaching level 5 to access the search player function and doing a search for players of levels 1-80. The pages have been counted and multiplied by 50 (there are 50 characters per page in the list) and then the characters on the last pages have been manually counted and added to the total.

The polling was done between July the 1st and July the 3rd, 2008, in a timeframe included between 6.30 PM and 9 PM CET to make sure that the data is consistent enough.

Of course the statistical value of the data is debatable, but should give a pretty good idea of the number of characters logged in each server during primetime, to identify which servers have an high population and which turned into ghost towns. In any case you know how the data was gathered and when, so you're free to draw your own conclusions from them. Click the links below to see the table and charts.

Nice find