and the number is 500. Max chars allowed for the other block on a sub cancellation. did that today before I almost forgot it runs out next weekend. Seemed fitting working account management with eve to wake up the main account and the alt account with the cyno alts lol.
To sum up helpful critiques in 500 characters when so many things are off (to me) …shows they really care lol.
Side note of if people wonder why people post quit threads…that 500 limit is probably why.
My discontent with the legion scaling was like 200 chars. and that was just 1 item. I stopped at that one since my main gripe.
Why would you work hard and make something excellent, when you could just poop in a box, throw a wow sticker on it, and sell that?
It’s way easier, and you can do it more frequently, and so will get you more money.
Catering to your player base is a slippery slope because you can never please everybody, so they dont please anyone and just do what they think its good for the game. They don’t care, you will still shill that cash, still complain on the forums, still generate buzz about the game.
Like i said in the past, you will notice that they “care” about the state of the game as soon as the out-of-the-usual surveys and promotions start rolling out. Then we can safely say that the game is in trouble. Until that happens, its business as usual.
Well…TBH there is no “Blizz” anymore its Activxxxxn so the answer is NO. the game is built around algorithms…such as massive subs at launch and massive drop 1 month later…rinse and repeat the last 3-4 xpacs. So they don’t put as much effort into making quality content anymore, they just make content. there are many more micro transactions (including tokens)…this game is just a predictable cash flow for them, it’s not the old “Blizz Cash Cow” anymore.
I do read them. And there is no evidence of a “decline”. It goes up and down like any cycle. What’s more, the MAU’s (Which are not the same metric as “subs” were before) are combined with Classic’s and they show healthy volumes overall each quarter.
Just because people bail, and then come back in droves doesn’t mean it’s in “decline”, in fact I expect a HUGE surge when TBC comes back.
Like I said, the current data out there makes it impossible to affirm the actual state of retail subs.
We also know that it was reported that SL release brought back numbers equal to the start of Mists, which was 10M back then. Obviously, it’s not unnoticed that they chose to not disclose the exact number. But again, all we can do is speculate.
I think the health of the population is much better than we realize, but I do think the wave in which people leave in between patches and then come back is much bigger than before.
I will speculate this, If retail had less than 1.5M subs we would not have the amount of development we are seeing. That’s my opinion.
Guys. Stop fantazing. Lol. WoW has been in serious decline since WoD. SL sold 3.5 mil copies. Revenue is down 60% from that initial 3.5 million people. It is clear in their financial statements.
That’s preorder sales not people who keep the sub or continue to play because they lost 41% of the new players before 9.0.5 so let’s say they went from 4.2mil to 10mil again they’re back down to BFA numbers. So give it a few more months and another patch that doesn’t fix problems and we’ll be right back down to trending to hit 4mil and dropping.
If SL ends above 4mil subs that’ll be a success. They will have slowed the current bleed rate of subs. To counter that though if they don’t they should fit more stuff in the store to make up for the loss of subs.