Sub totals plateaud in wrath. Started falling in cata, started hard tanking in MoP and reached the lowest ever in WoD.
But yeah, “borrowed powers” fault.
Remember when the original devs released a game with so many bugs we are still finding new ones in 2020? Or when they forgot to add quests to actually hit max level or had to have one guy design a raid with unused assest so we could have something to do at max level?
I think people forget this game has always been a buggy mess.
I can count expansions where I was able to play right at launch with little issue on 3 fingers.
MoP, Legion, and BfA, they’ve improved so much on their launches it’s not even funny, even wod wasn’t as bad as some of the previous launches (though just barely)
Yea – and because the baseline systems of the game were so solid, it became a runaway success anyways. Can you say the baseline systems of SL, such as covenants, are solid? I cant.
Subs hit their 12 million peak in October 2010, about a month and a half prior to the Cataclysm launch - right around the release of 4.0.1. Saying they ‘plateaued’ in Wrath is a fairly dishonest portrayal of things.
I don’t have any objection to borrowed power being a part, perhaps a minor part of every expansion. My issue is that the classes aren’t fun to play, some of them have incomplete toolkits. And this is temporarily fixed by multiple layers of interlocking systems, all of which we must grind for.
They want people to reroll their broken classes to FOTM to grind, grind, grind. When they’re ready they will get nerfed, and they can go back and repeat the hamster wheel on the class they wanted to play in the first place. That’s why there are always broken specs and FOTM specs. Or you could say it’s gross incompetence, but I’m not buying that.
yeah and look at all these missing spells:
Ah, MoP, the first expansion with Borrowed power (Sha touched weapons/gems, Cloak).
He was a wise man
Except it’s not true, it’s just hard to pull off.
FFXIV was a bad game, not anymore
NMS was horrible at launch, and has delivered and is considered an extremely good game now.
Baseline systems? There weren’t any. There was no system for pvp, pvp gear, raiding, or any world content.
Wrath started with 11ish million. It finished with 12. Do you need to google what a plateau is?
I read this, and all I can think of is all the times they have told us, “We listened and are giving you what you were asking for!”
Like the portal removal announcement. Right.
I would refund SL, and probably never pick the game up again. I have already put in for vacation, and will put my time and effort into something else permanently if they screw me with a push back on launch date.
Hilarious 
No there won’t.
I do not understand doing this. There are catch-up mechanics in the game, for ppl that can’t play all day.
Because it’s a fun time, no other time during the expansion can match launch weeks excitement.
And where the hell else are we going to take vacation this year, shouldn’t really be traveling.
The most fun I had in BFA, was the launch week. Rushing to get ahead, and making millions of gold selling things that were worth nothing a couple of weeks later.
It’s the same reason I wouldn’t roll classic right now. There are significant benefits to being there early, and if you can’t get them, why even play the game.
I pre-purchased and I do not care…why do you care? If you’re not having fun right now with anything in game then how can an expansion fix that?
Probably because that build had a few severe bugs discovered.
We’ve had plenty of squishes. Everything is based off a template on the backend. The hard parts are the manual restrictions that wouldn’t be found in templates.
No corruptions, no azerite, better story, new raid, many things.
Someone nominate this man for Azeroth’s Nobel Peace Prize for his simple, yet brilliant, idea… “Release the pre-patch, and delay SL!” …
Are you claiming that an increase in subscriptions to the tune of 1 million players is a plateau? Thats a significant jump.
I get it bro, you’re here to make excuses for this rushed release date. Best of luck in your pursuit of the green text.