We don’t have a large guild. At one point a month ago, we had three Kara groups. We had two per week after that, and now we will only have enough for one this week. There are about a dozen level 70s that have’t logged on in about a month. Before the pre-patch, we seemed to always have 30+ players on during daytime hours. During the pre-patch, we had even more. I logged on yesterday afternoon, and there were eight.
It seems like people are losing interest. Maybe they will come back for phase 2. I can tell you this…hardly anybody in our guild does heroics because of how much of a hassle they are. That is a big chunk of the game that folks are staying away from. Are any of you guys having similar issues with interest waning in TBC?
This is now the 3rd trip through tbc and at this point changes are needed to keep peoples attention. I rerolled on my friends server and after getting my priest to 62 I am having a hard time staying committed to leveling up. I feel like without my guy being rested my xp bar barely moves in dungeons or as i quest.
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Like the ones we just got?
I don’t think that’s going to help matters more.
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They could also just be full bis or something so they don’t have a reason to raid now
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I’ve been away since a busy spring sports season and I cover that with the camera gear. that wraps up soon.
NGL…recent change has me go so, I’ve gone weeks not touching this game. It can be more time away. Dungeon farm was the back up when open world was so flooded with people its not funny.
go mine/pick flowers! Okay….its loop 3, no nodes. To mine a node or pick a flower, nodes have to be there.
We have even more Kara groups now than before due to alts.
So nope.. going strong. People have been preparing for 6 months for TBC, they won’t quit.
You have to constantly be recruiting for such situations as this.
People come for the nostalgia. Maybe a few raids are enough to scratch that itch. Sometimes life takes priority, sometimes they’re just bored of the phase.
Recruit.
all wow servers have a boom period and then a gradual decline with some small spikes in between content releases and end of phase, we are around the time when people start dropping off a little bit
You can only run a phase so long before people have the raids on farm, got their gear and stop putting in the same amount of hours as when the phase started
That’s why you see a bell curve for every Classic phase release. Population jumps up with the release, levels off, then drops until the next phase. Rinse repeat
Only thing I will say is TBC just grew in raider population, again, last week to 326K characters. TBC has kept its raiding population high thus far
For me and my partner Pre-patch to P1 was a mad dash to level, get geared, and make enough money to raid. Through Phase 1 we kept farming gold to afford to raid til we got BiS, then pvp kept us busy til we ran out of things to spend honor on. We started new characters for fun but it’s a long journey, and with the way everything is going in the game it’s kinda not worth the effort. We’ll raid log til we’re outta gold and then go play something else probably.
I lost interest last year and canceled both my subs in December. I’ve been using the remaining gametime to evaluate whether I want to give Blizzard another cent or play games elsewhere.
After the past 2 days’ events, elsewhere won by a landslide.
If they keep up the great work with the player-friendly changes like they did this week there will be more bots than players subbed by the time P2 drops.
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that could be what they want.
Bots don’t complain. they just you know….bot. so they are basically 100% satisfied clients lol.
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The most fun part of TBC is the pre bis phase of gearing, getting attunements done, getting badges of justice etc. After a few weeks into TBC, once you have accomplished all of that and you have phase 1 raids on farm, it turns into a raid log and gets boring. That is why myself and many others have quit. Early phase 1 TBC is awesome, about mid way through Phase 1 is when it just gets boring for alot of people.
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I have a tank and a healer, and I can tell you pugging is HORRIBLE, the dps attitude is trash, and I will not be wasting time on heroics or raids with that kind of mentality, I would rather not log at all than deal with the low IQ dps
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Fear of upcoming changes and the slim chances of an Era server are almost enough to keep me away from TBC.
I get why people would not invest more before we know where we’re heading.
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This is normal, it was exactly the same in TBC 2021, people get bored of a phase after about 2 months. I’m one to believe 1 year is enough for TBC and so far I can’t say I’m wrong. If you think 2-3 months is not enough per phase, you’re probably unlucky with drops and/or you’re in a bad guild that doesn’t clear every week.
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The constant fear of “accidental” changes is what’s driving people away. Also a lot of people on Era have said they’re not committing full time or even going over because Blizz hasn’t announced TBC Era servers. I’m sure if TBC Era servers were announced there would be a spike in playerbase.
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Yeah, the game is very unfun, particularly with their attempts to remove any kind of alternative solo play. Once I can blow all my gold on my swift flight form druid, I’ll kill Anzu a couple times for my last bit of nostalgia then log off for good.
Only started Anni so I could do the things I never tried before, namely: AQ40, Naxx, and solo mage farms, particularly SM Cath, ZG, Slave Pens, and Shadow Labs. Never got to experience SP or SL for obvious reasons but SM was a fun challenge and great intro while ZG was ultra-rewarding to have finally learned how to run a train of tigers and crocs around the map knowing they’re right on my heels looking for a chomp.
Recently learned about rogue farming but it’s not terribly rewarding since it’s a LOT of waiting for CDs and patrol patterns. Slay the Spire 2, Hades 2, and Elden Ring are looking to be my WoW replacements.
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which is why guilds should return to the old ways of if you vanished for weeks no you no longer get a raid spot, your bench now until you’ve proven you can login every week and sit online incase your needed, but because its a mega server there is zero reputation so you can just guild hop.