Again - really appreciate reading well thought-out, reasonable counterpoints. I think you’re right on about the profitability of the copy feature. There’s just not much demand. Maybe I’m the only one trying to run my level 80 through the pre cata world.
But getting back to the main point of this entire thread, “Cata is a mistake.” Your comment - “…the only reason Blizzard releases games is to make a profit.” Google “wow subscriptions” and click images. See all those bell curves with Cata causing the drop-off?
First there were no bell curves. Do you even know how to read a graph? A bell curve is a typically symmetrical curve of a normal distribution, resembling the profile of a bell. No one expected the subs to continually grow. Peak growth ended with Wrath that flat lined for the whole expansion until a small increase with the Cata prepatch. After 6 years and wrath flat lining a loss of subs was expected. But 10.2 million people paid $15 a month for about 20 months. While there was a small drop during the content drought just before the MoP prepatch 10.2 million is 85% of the Cata high of 12 million. That’s a massive number of subs for a 6 year old game after the end of the Lich king story line. 10.2 million paying $15 a month for 20 months is an immense success and a massive profit that most other games could only dream of and means that the vast majority of wow players liked Cataclysm.
Well, I keep all my Era characters, and all my HC characters, so you’re way off the mark. I cancelled my sub - just in order to protest, but I intend to re-sub in order to play (HC mostly and a bit Era) after a short break.
The only reason to delete my Wrath Cata characters, are that seeing their names in the drop down meny here in the Forums makes me feel sad.
“Plenty of posts” is just anecdotal and thus meaningless. (From a data perspective. Not saying you or your opinion are meaningless) You’d have to survey a couple thousand subscribers to get any kind of meaningful feedback.
Not sure what the half a dozen haters hopes to achieve, they’re not getting a blue post saying ‘due to six people cata has been cancelled’
TBH the experience will be so much better with such people not playing.
I’d take a happy half a server over a full one full of sad sacks and cry baby’s.
Unfortunately they’re still going to play anyway, despite all their protests to the contrary. And they’ll be complaining about how things were so much better before the whole time…
No, you have to also uninstall the game from your computer. I’ve heard there’s a blizzard cookie that sends a message to the personal email of every dev when you uninstall.