It’s not because of cata only, it’s because of mist of Pandaria remix, sod phase 3 is dead But phase 4 Will explode.
There are a lot of collectibles in Pandaria and it’s fun to play.
Don’t worry phase 4 Will be alive and we Will come back, My guild is not raiding, just waiting for p4.
looks back in; blinks
Ya all realize they’re saying (the total of Era) is more than (one) SoD server’s population. Right?
Like that’s why I said “this isn’t the own you think it is”; Era has 17k…total. SoD has 74k total.
Era is 5 years old, sod is 6 months old
So? SoD still has four times as many players as Era. It’s hardly dead.
Meanwhile, the entirety of Era; both EU and NA, could fit on a single SoD server.
The ‘more appropriate’ post would have been:
98k down to 74k. 25% drop in one week.
Bigger drop off than usual.
How low we gonna go, fellas?
It’s all accurate, and very telling of the rapid downward spiral.
I’m curious as to what number will peter out at. Era seems to have a very dedicated player base after half a decade. SoD is very transient as a temporary game mode.
Or very telling that many had started SoD because Wrath had become stale.
What would be needed it a total from Era, SoD, Classic. Then compare to see if the total population has stayed about the same. And if so, where the distribution now laid; more on Era? More on Cata?
…could also argue that MoP Remix sucked a few away since P3 has, like Wrath, become stale.
Well, since sod will be according to the cata/sod design a drop of about 10% per week we will probably see it hit 74*.85^x. Now x is the number of weeks until p4 if we are generious we might have p4 in late july so about 8 weeks at the lowest might mean 20k before it goes back to 330-500k once people are done preping their mop characters in cata.
Honestly it makes sense to hold out for p4, and well there is the expectation that people will probably be able to get gear much easier when p4 does drop. But when p4 does hit there will be levelers, afk av bots, leveling in st like how people leveling in gnomer. Not sure about cata between mop and the kind of gdkp that one sees there.
I am enjoing MoP remix during this lull in SoD and many people in my SoD guild are all off taking a break and doing other stuff in other game modes or other games entirely.
One is even trying to lure me to FF14.
cause pvpers are happy til theres no one to pvp and thats where we are
might spike to maybe 150k then it depends on how the endgame is. if its actually fresh and fun it might bring new players in. if its not, back to 50k we go.
Of course it is. Pvp is incredibly horde favored and they’re running around every server ganking non-stop. No one wants to play in this environment.
I’m not proooing up era bro, just bringing up that comparing a 6 month old server with zero player retention losing 90% of its playerbase if not more is not comparable to a 5 year old server that doesn’t progress.
Anyone comparing sod to era is coping and suffering from sunk cost fallacy and/or has a personal problem with vanilla itself in which case we can dismiss the argument on bad faith
It drops 20% per week, recalculate!
cause era isn’t changing. we know were past the halfway point of all our gear becoming useless as 60 opens. people would be chasing gear if we had forever bis drops in p3.
there might be duplicates in there…
thats my point. why are coping sod players trying to compare their player drop off to era?
Because they have no other comparison. Sod retention is bad because sod is bad
Omg 20 man MC and Ony.
Copium, trash content.
they didnt say 20man Ony.
did they?
Ony is tier 2.
Oh sorry youre right, i just assumed it would be 20 man since the game would be dead and getting 40 might be impossible for most guilds.
you can kill it with fewer than 40, if you cant find 40. i would expect that guilds would cooperate and collaborate to field full raids for these bigger challenges.