This situation is pretty different though. A massive content drought on an unpopular expansion followed up with another content drought due to a massive scandal all the while their is a game that was largely ignored waiting to pick up the pieces. A massive red flag is content creators looking for the door.
The other issue is that the current WoW killer is not a new game but an old one with a metric ton of content for new players to do. This isn’t a new game that you get to max level and have nothing to do.
This situation is certainly not the same as those other times.
Yes.
Who would start playing an MMO like WoW now? It’s certainly not going to grow, and as the top content creators and streamers leave, their fans will too. What you’ll be left with is a bunch of die hards here for social reasons as they watch their last friends slowly drift to other better games.
We’re possibly seeing, not the death of WoW, but the last gasp of it’s popularity. It’s en vogue now to actively hate the company, and here on the forums even the games defenders, the pathetic white knights, have given up arguing everything is going great and just say “iF yOu DoN’t LiKe It ThEn QuIt!” and people are taking that advice, in droves apparently.
WoW needs to do some massive upgrades to it’s customer service, graphics, content, public relations, and (more than anything IMO) stop trying the mobile gaming model for it’s content. FOMO is not a sustainable model.
The have to let their MMO become an MMORPG again. If it’s not too late, and if they want to retain their players… but that’s just the opinion of an Angry Druid who would currently much rather play an RPG like FF14 than play loot-lottery at the vault later today.
I dont think this is a “downfall” of blizzard, as soon as they reorganize and put in the work players will return. In the meantime things look grim.
Kind of amazing how I reply to your reply to me but now I’m blamed for your idiocy for not understanding sarcasm. Go figure.
How much wiggle room do you think they really have at this point?
Obviously each situation will be unique in its own way, and each time there will be hundreds of people who can list all the reasons it will happen – then it never does. If you feel so strongly, I hope you buy some ATVI puts so you can take advantage of your insight.
9.1 just released and p2 of TBC is hitting the ptr this week.
I got plenty to do while they get their crap together.
Every time a new WoW expansion launches they have a lot of returning players. There a big crowd of people hoping that WoW will be “good” again. If they take the time and fix stuff im sure the word of mouth alone will help them.
Having said that, what i am talking about in this post is wether they fix stuff or not should we stay subbed if they take a hiatus or a really long delay for the next patch?
I don’t think WOW is going anywhere, but I think its development team might go through massive changes,
I mean really? Booze in the workplace? Sexual allegations and harassment that only constitutes workplace infidelity??
These accusations and lawsuits are VERY serious and normally run companies into the ground because they can last for months or years.
If Blizzard was smart, they’d fire all their executives and management, issue apologies and pay off any of the plantiffs involved in suing them which they have the money to do so. As well as hire those who actually care about workplace integrity, not hiring based on political stances.
But it’s Acti-Blizz. I’m sure their wokeness will just get them to do more stupid things.
It’s probably been like this for a while and has nothing to do with the lawsuit that was recently filed. Look how long it took to get a 9.1.
Acti-Blizz has over 9 billion in cash on hand, the lawsuit will probably end up being settled for less than 50 mil with caveat of change in some management positions, so there’s very little chance of this doing anything like running the company into the ground.
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I guess you failed to fully read my post.
I already said their best option is to pay off any fines, fire anyone involved, and rehire new management.
They have the money. But if they refuse to actually be smart about this, it WILL destroy them, regardless of how wealthy they are.
Nah, they can fight it to the last second and settle right before court (and likely this is what will happen) and be fine.
Then they’ll make some pr management changes, and everyone will forget about it. We know this because it’s already happened in other companies.
So you’re okay with dismissing sexual harassment like it’s nothing?
Or are you just white knighting?
No, neither.
I’m just saying that’s how it’s going to play out, because that’s how it always plays out.
The difference is the devs seem to be on a soft strike, working on the game but things don’t seem to be getting done.
An argument could be made that the cleanup process will cause even more delays.
It seems that is the course they are taking (fighting in court)
Still have a long way before court honestly.
I don’t think it’ll ever hit the courtroom, the state just wants their fine so they’ll both settle days before they go to court.
Given how a countries entire right to vote could be completely stolen and dismissed, I wouldn’t be surprised.
That is player dependent but honestly if you want more content you aren’t getting it so if that is the case I would unsub for now. If you are happy with the content for now just chill a bit and if the delay becomes too much then unsub. Mind at this junction with this kind of delay maybe look into other options in general. A single player game another MMO anything really.