Blizzard has the full info on who has what. That being said. Being able to finally fly is a good motivator.
As the poster above me stated i rarely ever see anyone on the ground.
i don’t pretend to know the inner workings of blizzard’s business model, and i’m not worried about their other games. correct me if i’m wrong but asia works under a time played metric. the NA, EU and so on is still subscription. why on freakin earth would you stop counting subs and use a time played metric for a subscription based game? even game time tokens are a sub.
so ion is pissing off millions of customers with his crusade on flight, his silly time gates, his RNG, on RNG, on RNG etc… he is deliberately slowing everyone down to pump up time played for a subscription game. how does that make any sense? you have one game with two vastly different payment methods, and type of play based on region. you can’t lump them together under just one process. this makes ‘new coke’ sound like a good plan. i just don’t get it.
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are you looking for them? also, how many people are playing right now?
How do you know?
To be fair, having the heart of azeroth is necessary to do anything at all in BFA, and the first essence is required for the level 35 catchup, which is essential if you want to be doing any content. Flying isn’t really integral to any content. Does it make it easier? Yes. Comparing it to being able to do any of the content seems a bit out there.
37% was sooooo 4 months ago.
That’s not bad at all. If I had to guess, 20% without P1 is probably mostly players who haven’t come back from quitting really early on in the expansion with the rest being those insanely committed to skipping quests and WQs entirely. The 30% without P2 is likely that same group of quitters and skippers that don’t have P1 with the remaining 10% taking their time and only signing on occasionally.
With how many left since the start of BFA that is very plausible.
What your describing isn’t entirely Ion’s fault; he probably has limited control over payment models, and perhaps even over release schedules. Those are controlled by the higher-ups.
The thread is a necro from this summer, almost 70% of 120s have flying now. (according to the same site used by the OP)
https://www.worldofwargraphs.com/global-stats/achievements/achievement-category-15298
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I’m guessing that doesn’t include the players who left over the issue.
Amazing how little % of people are completing BFA content.
Mechagon and Nazjatar looking like objective failures.
No, the referenced worldofwargraphs page takes into account all 120s, which would include everybody from world first 120 to some dude’s alt that hit 120 yesterday.
Sort of? There’s been a rather weird amount of spread in the last 4 months before the necro.
https://www.worldofwargraphs.com/global-stats/achievements/achievement-category-15298
https://www.worldofwargraphs.com/global-stats/achievements/achievement-category-15305
https://www.worldofwargraphs.com/global-stats/achievements/achievement-category-15417
https://www.worldofwargraphs.com/global-stats/achievements/achievement-category-15305
These cover a lot of the surface-level stuff. Most people seem to have come back at least once and messed around a bit in 8.2 zones (something that happened pretty slowly, as this wasn’t nearly the case when the thread started about a month in), but looking at stuff like rep and leveling followers shows pretty hard attrition in actually doing stuff there long term. Mechagon seems to be somewhat more popular than some of the 8.0 zones, but Naz is at the very bottom. And keep in mind, critical essences are gated behind Naz rep and followers (and of course, Mech rep is basically one WQ that tends to finish in a few minutes).
https://www.worldofwargraphs.com/global-stats/achievements/achievement-category-15284
Operation Mechagon (The Mechagonian Threat, since there doesn’t seem to be a cheevo for the actual dungeon) shows about 24% completion, which is really, really sad. This dungeon gates a near-bis essence basically everyone wants, has rings that are near-bis for most DPS specs, and has already been nerfed multiple times. The next lowest rate for a Mythic dungeon is King’s Rest at…79%.
Bizarrely, Hard Mode is sitting at 21%. Which means most people who did it at all went on to do that.
It doesn’t seem to be all downhill though.
https://www.worldofwargraphs.com/global-stats/achievements/achievement-category-15271
Feats of Strength shows Azshara is the second most popular AOTC behind Argus – which is weird, since she’s not only the hardest one this expansion, but especially contrasted with how Nazjatar seems to have been such a lead balloon.
Even weirder, it’s much higher than the numbers for Operation Mechagon, which is considerably easier.
My point with that was that Heart Forge opens within literally minutes of walking into Nazjatar, which itself opened the moment you dinged 120. 67% of 120s having bothered with even that, after a whole month, was not a good sign.
Now that one’s at 95%, which implies most people have at least popped back in for a bit since then. But the rates for the more significant tasks in those zones indicates they haven’t been doing much. We’re looking at 63% holding all three essence slots, and as much decay as we’ve had, HoA 65 is almost free (the war campaign alone will give you almost all of it).
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In what universe?
BFA is absolute trash
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I’m sure a lot more people than that have completed op mech. I’ve got plenty of friends who have been doing the dungeon often but haven’t completed the questline, also that sites metric is on all 120’s, not just by account. I have the quest line to completion on my druid therefore am a part of that metric but my alts have not therefore don’t count and I am almost done with the r3 grind on 5 different characters now. The achievement isn’t required to get what you need, nor is it required for exalted. You unlock everything you need within the first 50% of the quest chain iirc.
What is it, time to dig around on the forums for old posts to resuscitate?
62% of profiles now. Keep in mind, the 38% that don’t have it are probably not even subbed right now. Of all the people still playing right now, I’d say 95% have it.
Tbf, if you create a wowhead profile you are probably more invested in the game.
All this data tells me is 62% of people quit before 8.2.
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No, it’s 62% of profiles HAVE it now. The 38% that don’t likely haven’t come back yet.
If you look at the Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part Two, you’ll see that only 69% of people have it.
If you look at Draenor Pathfinder, you’ll see that 62% of people have it.
Basically, everyone that’s going to bother getting it has already gotten it. There is roughly the same level of participation for it as the previous two expansions that implemented it.
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