you’re very wrong here. WoW retail is still their cash cow. You think Retail’s gonna die and classic based on one xpac is gonna last forever? Not gonna happen. It takes so little to maintain a game that was completed 15 years ago that neither will suffer. On the contrary, both are doing quite well atm. Whether we like the direction or not, it’s still doing well.
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If you know how that data is collected, you’d know to divide that number by at least 2, meaning its closer to 1.1M.
What? Most people, including myself and a lot of friends, don’t do LFR to gear, they do it for fun and to see content. It seems a little silly to complain about LFR not being able to offer the chance at heroic level raid gear.
Majority as in the spend the most yes.
scroll up to my reply about how many toons are in classic and retail.
classic has like 2m and retail has like 27m. i also posted the links where i got the info from.
I would leave for good if that happened going backwards is not why i still play WoW thats for sure!Always going forward ftw!
i do lfr to see content too but it’s people from classic complaining that lfr gives gear at all but somehow are blind to the fact wafronts give better gear than lfr. pvp does. normal+ raiding does. keys do. everything that isn’t queue able does.
LFR is largely seen as the killer of classic raiding, because it meant you can click a button and go do a raid for loot - no need for guilds anymore.
But now in BFA, LFR is 400iLVL while world quests give 420iLVL. There is no reason to do LFR anymore besides learning the fights.
Non-LFR raids will give 445iLVL.
All of a sudden, blizzard killed the QoL fast queues.
We now need to form premades for mythic dungeons and raiding. Since there is no other option besides being out in the world working on rep for allied races.
LOL yeah right thats not happening.
classic wow is the easiest cash grab there is just re launch old content and make millions how are they funding it?
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Which are old accounts, not concurrent players. Do a /who 120 on any retail server if you want proof of how dead it is.
uh i’m on a tiny server and it’s highly populated. my alliance are on moonguard and it’s ridiculously populated. there are like 2m people who play classic and 27m who play retail. thems the numbers. your feelings don’t change that, my dude. 
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LFR was never intended to replace the actual raids in terms of gear. It always has dropped lower quality gear. Since it came out.
Always has been the case. You are a LFR hero looking for heroic gear.
Same here my server is fully active with players as well if other servers are dead one things for sure mine is not of those imho retail feels dead because there over 200+ servers with the playerbase spread to thin on them.And 3 day server tranfers doesn’t help either making people thin out more on those servers.
“thEmz teh nomBurz!” on a “study” you don’t even know how to interpret.
I dunno bout you, but I’ve done a million world quests, n I’m not getting any above the occasional 395 ring, most are 380 or so. Maybe they get higher once I cross 400ilvl, only 1 away, but it seems they topped off for me a few months back.
Same, I haven’t seem queues on mine since that first week.
So when it caps out at 50 it’s telling me that it reached the /who cap? Why yes, that proves so much. 
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LFR used to be an upgrade over quest gear, but now it is much lower iLVL than quests.
So yes, they changed it, making LFR as only an experience and a few shards.
That is a recent phenomenon.
the numbers are based on what’s subbed and which toons exist. you can have 50 toons per retail and classic account. exactly the same amount. there just happens to be over 10xs as many toons that exist for retail. 
Sounds like sound logic to me well played sir!