Blizzard, why are you killing WoW?

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Because I believe it to be true.

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Well said. :rofl:

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Blizzard never designed around long-term sustainability because their expansion model has always been to deprecate all previous content to encourage expansion sales. So high turnover rates don’t really matter when expansions are seen as a hard-reset button anyways.

There is no “maintenance mode” for WoW. WoW rides waves of hyped consumable content, and requires the art pipeline is always loaded in order to even function. The only way to transition into a “maintenance mode” without constant coal-shoveling from their art department would be to start cycle server-seasons like Diablo.

Classic will help, but even the private server community learned a long time ago that the game is mechanically unsustainable without periodic FRESH resets.

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They’ve run out of ideas and or are seeking to capitalize on the Mobile market (Which I will never understand why that is a thing)

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If you are going to spam a two-letter word perhaps you should spell it correctly.

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I don’t think it’s quite that sinister. Most companies look at their various products and know which ones are older cash cows, and which ones have more growth potential. You take money made from your older cash cows and invest in new stuff. I play the old game and not any of the new stuff, but I can see that the company as a whole is looking for new markets to expand into.

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LOL I’ve seen your posts, like the ones in this thread.

Your opinion means nothing to me. 0 value.

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That’s ok. My life does not depend upon it. :rofl:

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I saw a comment yesterday or this morning along the lines of “why is it only in the video game industry that the player is blamed when they don’t like what they are sold?” If you go to a restaurant and your food is brought to you and it is badly burnt you don’t go “well its my fault for ordering it” and go about your day. No you complain about it and either ask for a refund or for them to bring you a better meal.

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It’s because a lot of video consumers are kids who don’t understand their power/rights as consumers.

One such poster claimed that my refusal to pay for a product I don’t like is a “tantrum.” This clearly demonstrable lack of understanding of commercial relationships probably arises from a combination of a lack of life experience plus being taught to “take” whatever is dished.

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But if a restuarant everyone loves goes out of business due to false bad reviews on Yelp! the reviewers are to blame.

Are we done with comparing apples to oranges yet?

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How do you figure? If a commercial business receives bad reviews, that’s pretty much on the business. Just how do you determine whether a review is legitimate or not? BTW, a restaurant that receives even one bad review is by definition, NOT a restaurant “everyone loves.”

Businesses depend on good will and customer satisfaction. When those disappear from the formula, understandably, businesses fail.

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It is far more likely for those reviews and complaints to be legitimate than false ones made to just harm the business though.

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This is my false equivalent hypothetical situation to counter his false equivalent situation. Go get your own!! :wink:

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I can 100% guarantee you they were not. I made them all up! :sweat_smile:

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this is meant to be a serious discussion. there are many troll threads out there but this is not one of them.

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I would “like” your posts, but I’ve used up my ration for today.

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You started this thread with a ton of unsupported opinions supposed to be factual and then make an accusation against Blizzard based on that unsupported opinion and then further argue your point with a false equivalency.

How could I take any of that seriously?

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I don’t know. Maybe you just haven’t been exposed to enough of life yet.

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