Blizzard lost 29%of its playerbase in three years

First it was 40%, now it’s 29%, folks keep pulling figures out of thin air it seems.

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A Doom and Gloomer took a swing at me and his aggression was noted… I have rectified the source of his agitation and hopefully this calms his lust for this reporters blood.

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If you play retail, you are now paying to be a beta tester, only hoping to have a game that feels complete near the end of the expansion’s life cycle.

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Breaking: The referee has apologized on twitter but the world is having none of it. Both sides have now teamed up.

Those wont matter if less player are playing, even the whale will stop playing when there’s no player around for them to show off their cash item.

Your profile picture looks insane

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My bloodlust has been satiated for exactly 10 minutes, thank you.

But it’s back because I’m a HER AAARRRRGGGHHHH :rage:

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This one can never be tamed.

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Yes, but they’re making more off the remaining customers thanks to ‘value added services’ (tokens, the store, etc). Fun times.

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Please stop referring to this. Activision has a huge number of games in its portfolio and World of Warcraft is only a small and increasingly smaller part of that portfolio.

This thread refers to the Blizzard part of Activision Blizzard. WoW doesn’t come under Activision’s portfolio.

The previously joyful Cookie Gnome has entered the scene making rounds with his wares. His once delightful tray is now tarnished and dull… the cookies stale and tasteless.

also btw I did not mean to derail this into a classic thread, but I can’t help but think that 29% loss number would be MUCH higher right now if classic did not exist.

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(apologizes because well, SL is just well, free of joy and fun)

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Them’s fightin’ words Dwarf.

You DO NOT make fun of the Famous Grumble Cookies.

Get 'im!

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Nope, since 2003 responsible forum admins have worked out that allowing any person to post any link they please leads to scum posting hostile links.

You can play the cat and mouse and put support people into it and still constantly deal with the terrible things done to your users. Or have a policy that limits live linking.

Please refer to the Syntax and Features guide that has been stickied at the top of the forum. It will tell you all kinds of things, including how to post links if you lack sufficient trust level to post live ones. In fact I’ll link it here for you.

New Forum Guide - Syntax and Features - Community / General Discussion - World of Warcraft Forums (blizzard.com)

To save you some reading you can simply enclose whatever link you like in ` (grave marks) the other thing on the ~ key generally to the left of the number 1 on most keyboards.

That’s a fair point - HotS has been on the decline for god knows how long and SC2 probably isn’t losing the RTS crowd because where would they go? but the whole genre is just spinning its wheels going nowhere. (Except for endless AoE2 remasters.)

Why are you paying every month if you hate it so much? Spite? Because let me tell you, that’s not a very effective way of sticking it to people.

I mean, I’ve had some times I was less enthusiastic about, and some times that I decided you know what, I don’t need to play for a couple months, or I’m just skating by and RPing or hanging with friends. But at least there was some residue of enjoyment that was worth putting in a little time.

But if you think the game’s been crap for 5+ years and you hate the developers then why stay? What benefit do you get for putting yourself through this?

…I think you’re kind of weirdly obsessed with panda, my dude. Maybe give it a rest?

Ah yes the “why are you paying then lol” to a post explaining why people are anguished over the state of the game and want it to improve.

Good times.

Why are you so obsessed with what I replied to some other poster? :stuck_out_tongue:

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So why are you still playing and/or coming to the forums? I bought a game I didn’t like about a month ago. You know what I did? I uninstalled. Wasn’t a hard decision. I didn’t enjoy it so why would I keep it on my computer? I mean, I didn’t even have to pay a sub. I still own it and it would cost me nothing to keep it on my computer/keep playing it/keep talking about it.

Yet I did none of the 3. I uninstalled it, I stopped playing it and I don’t bother going onto it’s forums (if it has any) or reddit to talk about it. Cause a game I don’t enjoy just isn’t worth that effort.

Don’t like it? Unsub, uninstall and move onto something else.

Call me a white knight if you want but what I’m suggesting is just common sense.

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Why are people resorting to low effort “Then don’t play it” to posts which indicate that the players want the game to improve and succeed?

If you’re that lazy to just leave instead of helping to improve the game, be my guest.

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