You had over 10 Million paying Subs? They were happy to pay and the gold sellers/paid levelers made even more than you so I hear.
That success was birthed by Classic and even carried on into Xpacs, which slowly but surely killed it to where we are now.
Classic isn’t just a way to bring some players back. Done right, you could bring back the Cult following this game once had and along with it, the massive financial success you once enjoyed.
True. There is a high correlation between WoW’s sub count and the number of Xpacs. Well, an Inverse correlation.
More Xpacs= Less Subs
Well, some of it should also be attributed to the natural life cycle of a product. WoW simply isn’t the hot take it once was.
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I gave up all games for vanilla.
It was the game or a hobby in itself.
It was so close to being the perfect mmorpg. This is my opinion of course.
D&D was made long ago and still is going.
Vanilla struck a perfect medium between hardcore/casual and PvP/PVE. It had the rpg elements to every mmo rpg. Vanilla was at the top. Everything you did in the world held value, no pay to win, and everyone was on equal footing in the beginning.
TBC started the chain re-action of losing the rpg elements with catch-up mechanics with over gear (beyond crazy high ilvl)
I don’t think anything for awhile will be better than vanilla/classic. Whoever was on original team had love for the game.
When a company grows it let’s go of the actual talent makes room for ppl to make more $$ that is the flaw.
It’s like chess chasing a piece and not really looking at the game as for what it is.
Wasn’t that the same year that Catwoman was the biggest comic book movie and Facebook was born? Sometimes dead is better.
The industry is different. The breed of gamer that made this game so popular has moved on to real life; families, careers, ambitions. Our kind has been replaced by arcade gamers who don’t think microtransactions are a bad thing. People who play Fortnite and idolize streamers.
The popularity this game had back then is gone.
What is dead can never die.
The funny thing is, it didn’t happen overnight or silently. Tons of people complained and they were called a “vocal minority”, completely dismissed, yet here we are, on the other side of the decline. I wonder if those shills still believe they were right , that They truly had their finger on the pulse of the target audience.
I think you will also find a funny correlation between the fact that the subscriptions started its downhilll decline when Activision bought out blizzard and took over…coincidence…I think not.
That’s the easy answer, but I don’t think it’s the correct one.
If the game If Cataclysm and beyond didn’t fundamentally change so much of the great aspects of the game, I think it would still have many more players.
All that said, even BfA has cult followers…I think WoW always will so long as it exists. I use the term lightly, of course, but that’s how strong the mere memory of WoW is to millions.
So yeah, WoW could be 20 years old on the same trajectory as the first 2 expansions, and the ‘age’ of it wouldn’t matter.
Just my take, but I feel Classic will shed light on whether or not that’s correct.
I did say some of it, not all of it. All things have a life cycle, that’s a fact about everything.
Or it would have grown stale perhaps. Who knows?
Most good games or things in general, has a cult following or someone who still likes it. So of course Classic will as well, as long as the servers are open. Question isn’t if it will, more how many in the long run. A few hundreds still play Meridian 59, a game from 1996, but that’s a far cry from what it once was.
They are going to release Classic. A thread badgering them about it is pointless.
The game actually became too popular in my view, adding players due to the buzz rather than interest in an MMORPG.
Lies. More people were playing in wrath than in retail.
In my opinion the voices are heard more.
Ppl don’t know what they want.
Ppl change their mind like a girl changes close. #katie P.
As I said before in a forum D&D is same with slight changes but yet more ppl play than they did in the 80s.
Ppl think free to play is actually free. Faster transactions occur. The gamer audience is the same. I had a career and a Life before Vanilla wow. Yet I got sucked in. A great game is still a great game. The only mind set is ppl afraid to lose. I believe classic helps ppl understand you cannot win everything and you don’t always get what you want. It’s just like life.
You’re right the developer changed because easy money. I hope classic shows the world what an mmorpg is once again.
Ppl QQ /will complain and I hope blizzard let’s them. Ppl complain but still love what they hate because they don’t know themselves. It will take a life time to know ones self.
It’s whatever…
Tell that to Trekkies. You seem to have a misunderstanding of the term “Cult Following”
They care nothing for changes in an industry or even advances.
Wrath was retail?