After several estimates from the “industry analysts”, Tencent Games revealed the actual number for Blade & Soul China earlier today. The highest number of players online at the same time (CCU) is at a record 1,500,000 (rounded down), with around 6 hours of average queue time to enter the game.
Seen below are other stats as well, which are roughly translated (apologies for any text translation error), but the numbers are official ones. None of Tencent’s competitors in the China gaming industry ever came close to these values, and I doubt it will take ages for it to happen.