Maybe it’s true and if it is, that’s good. Competition is good for the consumer.
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Players don’t have unlimited money or time.
Like I said in another thread about this, the numbers aren’t accurate for either game because neither of them release their own metrics. Until they do–which they won’t–conversations such as these are rendered null and void.
Not to mention, it doesn’t matter. Play what you like–not what is popular. Don’t be a goober.
Honestly, if I am being honest, I suspect that some of the Korean/Chinese f2p MMOs that have never been western localized are probably way more played than either WoW or FF14(or FF24, but that’s a different story).
But the long and short is we can only speculate on these things and thus THIS conversation is completely pointless.
The source that OP is basing this thread reminds me of that Time magazine story long ago about GW2 being the largest mmorpg. Really did LOL at the time.
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Alright man whatever you say. The simple fact that you think gamers are a scarce commodity is amazing. Go do some research on how many folks in the world game; it’s actually mind boggling. Enough to support huge amounts of games that can be successful at the same time, that’s for sure.
Don’t bother responding to me - muting this thread; it’s a troll thread anyway.
$15*12=$180/yr. For many households, that’s big enough to be a budget item.
And time. If you have unlimited time to play video games, you are an exception.
just play both games , they are both good on their own way
You can just go there and post it.
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Get ready for Blizzard employees to go White knight and assault you and demand you give them your stuff. They always attack anyone that criticizes WoW.
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LuckyBancho and MMO-P are trying to do the same thing: document the number of active players. LuckyBancho is doing it as active characters.
LuckyBancho also has very specific things they look for:
- Maximum level is 60 or higher (not including 60 just)
- Levels and experience points have changed since the last survey (12/5)
- Since the last survey (12/5), the number of minions and mounts possessed has changed.
- A new character that was not in the previous survey
- One or more mounts
- Belonging to the Grand Company
- Exclude characters that use jumping potions in the job when acquiring data (IL260 of the main weapon at the time of data acquisition and the maximum level of the battle job is 60, or the maximum level of the battle job is 70 in the same IL390)
MMO-P has no equation they base their numbers off of – except we can figure out that they use subreddit numbers as a basis (via MMO Growth page).
The things you will notice that LuckyBancho leaves out are:
- Starter edition players
- Level 70 Boosts that have not been upgraded in terms of gear (not actively playing the game or using)
- Sub-60 players.
The issue is that if you would take those into accounts – you would have to believe that either they would represent the missing 1.5 million players (which would be a very very big stretch) OR 5.5 brought in 1.5 million players for Bozja and a content drought of six months – both which make little sense.
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Hey, I really like GW2 but to call it the biggest mmo? Not a chance.
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So they needed something to draw in players after the massive sub decline from their terrible business decisions and are now preying on nostalgia because it’s easier to release a good version of their game again instead of fixing what they continue to destroy year after year? I mean it works, but that only works for so long.
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You would think a multimillion $ company like blizz would arrive at that conclusion years ago but nope… gotta burn this game to the ground till there’s nothing left it seems.
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ok but i play both and so do most of my friends. so how can you just add both together lol.
They weren’t shut down. They were merged with the sports department. Get your facts straight.
This is a pretty big omission. The game doesn’t rush you straight to level 60 in a matter of days like WoW does. I played every day for months without hitting 60.
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Not commenting on the sentiment one way or another but isn’t you get what you get a saying to imply a randomness to an outcome or like to be grateful for what you have? The tone of your post I feel like “you get what you give” or “you get what you deserve” or idk I just know I’ve been sitting here thinking how you get what you get in this would make sense
I said that referring to blizzard. At the moment blizzard is their biggest enemy and not a company or game. They will be the so called wow killer.
IDK if adding those is fair… most especially since many of those SL players are also Classic/TBC players which would mean double dipping to inflate your numbers. Wouldn’t that be
concerning which I share your viewpoint that it
Superdata and Esport tracking was merged into their Sports division, mostly because Esports is not a growing field even in the pandemic. You can feel free to google search this. I don’t believe accuracy was an issue, most especially since Blizzards financial report is in line with their findings. Those losses of active players are reported by blizzard, which would appear to be the data you would believe.
There are really no racials, save for an extremely minor starting stat variance. I think that’s weird. I play a human because I’m boring.
TLDR:
Yogg Saron: “He will learn –no king rules forever!”
Maybe instead of whining people could… idk… push Blizzard to increase the quality of their game? I want to like both.
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