So yesterday Gamespot.com put out an article talking about how Activision Blizzard has lost 60 million monthly active users in the past year. And some of the reasons they mention is lack of content released across their games, and the workplace actions that took place in their offices. But lets call them out for things we are seeing happen in real time.
People like Brian Birmingham who refuses to listen to the customers of the content he is responsible for. A company that is losing from their bottom line needs to look at things like this especially when there are groups out there with illegal private servers just licking their lips in anticipation of a great migration back to them because of literally one man who refuses to listen to his customers.
I know, I know, I know, ready for the comments below flaming me that they do not believe huge numbers will leave because of the RDF issue. But what you have to understand is people were not going to quit if RDF had just been included in WOTLK, (everyone was already expecting it to be there because it already existed) but people will quit because of it not being included especially when these other organizations who are ready to make money off of Blizzards intellectual property by advertising they will be implementing the things the masses are asking for.
I do not condone the use of private servers, they are inferior in many ways. And the way private servers got hurt when blizzard finally made high quality classic realms was a knock out punch to the private world. But they are being handed a golden opportunity by Brian Birmingham to capitalize on his selfish reasons for wanting to make a game for him, instead of for us.
Now before the people who are unable to read and understand what has been written here, i know that this did not cause the loss of 60 million players, so before you try to spin it that way just stop. I am simply saying that there are more reasons that Blizzard is losing and will continue to lose money from bad decisions. And how much is one man worth that he can potentially cause so much loss just because he wants his way.
He âclaimsâ the community wanted it that way but has absolutely zero evidence to back this up. the forums are 90% pro RDF, Reddit is 90% pro RDF, heck even LFG chat inside classic TBC wow is pro RDF, even the community council that Birmingham was hoping would back him up only had like 2 people from it speak in favor of no RDF and the rest spoke on how they were upset to see it not included. So if he cannot get his own corrupted group of hand picked individuals to agree with him, where is this hidden majority? Show us something to back your claim, there are records of our claim out there spoken loudly, where is yours?
Ok, now ready for the comments of the people who did not read / understand what was written. and⌠GOâŚ
Just my opinion
did you just wrote that essay just to push the LFD RFD agenda?
well I agree with him. I didnt liked the shards of domination bs they added to shadowlands and quit, alot o people did the same and they removed. Do I think the classic player base will do the same ? No some are too addicted to quit, they will just complain here like aways
Link to the article instead of a badly laid out website?
They let too many games go into hibernation mode, thatâs why they lose active users.
Disagree, reddit is largely anti DF and in game id say the split is around 50 / 50 from the people I know.
Forums are are probably 60 / 40 with the 60 in support because its mostly people who want to complain who come here.
But then again, this is all just anecdotal BS with no empirical basis, just like your numbers.
Only thing is iâve never seen a poll that close.
Even polls on reddit pre-announcement were vastly in favor of RDF.
I like how youâre blaming this loss of player base solely on LFD tool not being included in Wrath.
Get over it.
dude didnt even read anything. just seen âloss of subsâ and âlfgâ and assumed. lul
Yea, iâm pro-rdf and thatâs just stupid, these numbers would have been gathered before the announcement even.
He is convinced that people donât want LFD. I havenât seen a single #NoChanges thread since TBCC launch. People had enough of no changes for Vanilla Classic. Everyone was quick to realize how horrible certain aspects of the game without a few select modern features.
I checked his twitter the other day. He had roughly 20+ tweets askin for :LFD that he ignored and like 2 supportng his decision that he replied to.
Of course he did 
I havenât checked lately but I saw a response from him where he was all chatty with people who agreed with him, but any time someone had a differing opinion from him⌠heâd mute the thread and say twitter wasnât the place for that kind of discussion. Itâs so frustrating.
Youâre right, there is zero evidence to support removing LFD. Data-driven strategies are not part of the MO over there at Blizz. I chalk this up to bias, pure and simple.
Unless they can publish data correlating churn with the use of LFD, they really donât know what they are talking about. (I know DS/DA pretty much inside and out and trying to come up with an R-squared that accounts for the variance is most likely non-existent. Itâs a criterion problem - how do you measure social interactions leading to churn unless when someone unsubscribes, they are explicit in their reasoning; and not just for one player, but for ALL who unsubscribe. Part of that survey is structured with some Likert Scales, but good luck trying to correlate any of that data with a permanent to the semi-permanent exodus from the WoW Universe.)
I dare Blizz to prove me wrong and publish some data that substantiates their decision, which will only really irritate the player base that has fond memories of WOTLK.
I blame the loss of subs on the game being 18 years old. What other games are you regularly playing from 2004?
I love how people who are arguing against RDF have yet to point to a single, active, publicly listed poll that shows the community is in favour of removing it.
Every argument Iâve read against is either a straw man or completely opinionated with nothing to substantiate there claim⌠but hey, by all means lets continue to spam an archaic chat system in 2022. ROFL
cites logical fallacies
references non empirical poll with inherent bias as evidence
The article says that itâs mostly a loss for Call of Duty, which isnât a Blizzard game. l o l.
Are you trying to equate the entirety of Activision-Blizzard losing 60 million MAUâs over the course of the last year, with Brian Birmingham announcing WoTLK wonât have LFD a week ago?
Am I reading this right? Youâre really drawing parallels there? Lol.
You linked to the main page instead of the article and havenât bothered to fix it even though itâs in the first sentence. You also say LFD isnât relevant then start talking about LFD and mock others that talk about LFD. LFD is either part of the topic or it isnât. You need to pick 1 and stick with it.
You can keep typing lol and trying to mock others but you are the real clown here. With all that and what other users have said; I think we can safely axe this one and move on.
