Well yeah, that’s hardly surprising. When the content is bad or there is a drought only the diehard players stick around which is why the retention numbers seem higher. Like I said above, it’s not that S2 itself is bad but S1 just dragged out for too long and players burned out, especially those who do nothing but M+ 24/7, I imagine that must get old quick.
Also the expansion as a whole has been pretty underwhelming and has felt abandoned for some time with the devs already devoting virtually all of their time on the next expansion while this one is left languishing on the vine. The fact that they’ve seemingly given up on TWW doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.
Plus, and I may be wrong on this, but I can’t help shake the feeling that the entire World Soul Saga was a marketing gimmick and was really intended to be one singular expansion all along but got cut into 3 separate ones so they can sell it to us 3 times while also taking 3 times as long to develop it. More money for less effort. Not only does it make an awful lot of sense but it also explains why the story and new content feel like too little butter scrapped over too much bread.
At any rate, regardless is that is true or not, I am simply not having fun anymore and I’ve got nothing to look forward to besides more recycled content and the same seasonal grind in the meantime. Add to that the fact that what little of the story there is atm isn’t particularly compelling and what’s left just isn’t enough to keep me around. The numbers show I am far from the only one and they’re statistically significant so here’s to hoping Blizzard take notice and do better going forward.
Maybe if and when S3 rolls around I might come back to see what it’s all about but otherwise I am pretty much over TWW already… just like Blizz seem to be.