Different business models. They have a small niche community of whales that dump loads of money into buying $300 family expansion packs and micro transactions they all mostly play 3 to 6 accounts. The game is F2P.
WoW has consistently been shrinking.
Eventually it will be down to less then 1 million players.
Would Microsoft cater to that?
It’s possible but history says Microsoft is going after 7 million subscribers and sheer volume of players. Heck D4 sold 10m copies. That is HUGE. Just not sure how long they settle for a dwindling player base.
It could keep going but the merger puts a kink in that plan.
i love how the one single tweet he made about sale runs ever has turned into “mike ybarra’s primary source of income for close to a decade was RMT raid sales”