Oh, I’d agree with that. A lot of people still here are people who are the die hardest of the die hards.
My raiding guild says they’ll be in wow till the servers shut off and I kind of believe them. I suspect they’re not alone.
I would say… this isn’t a good time for the game. In no particular order its old, it’s had 2 disappointing/not great expansions in a row (something that’s never happened before) and the direction is moving in a more and more hard core direction.
The last bit makes the game harder to love than it’s been in years.
If you love mythic+, hard core raiding, rated pvp…? If Dps meters and rankings are your thing? Wow’s probably fine for you. If you don’t? You really don’t have much to do. Anima grind a bit? Get a few mounts? Run some old raids (but… not even later legion ones solo). Even the social aspect has kind of died off in an age of more lobby style gameplay.
I’m not really cr**ping on wow. It’s one of the greatest games ever made. But I can imagine a lot of people are looking at 9.1 and thinking ‘eh… there’s really not much there for me.’
One thing I’ve NEVER seen before is popular streamers start to mention another game. That’s… new.