Shadowstrike had 6703 players during phase 2 launch onwards.
I will admit that months after it went up slightly to around 10-11k then continued to free fall down to 2900ish players.
Based on this data on all servers not just our own plus player feedback the conclusion is that the gdkp ban significant harmed the player population it resulted in less players overall it resulted in less alts over all and less raids being completed weekly.
There is no way in any circumstance this can be justified.
So it went from 14k, then slowly declined over time, as it had already been doing. Then the population rose back up to 11k the next phase (11k is not 60% of 14k hahahah) way after gdkps had been banned? It’s almost as if gdkps had absolutely nothing to do with the decline in the playerbase and more to do with people getting bored of the content. Then coming back when there was more content released. That 60% of players that “quit because gdkps were banned”, would not have returned unless gdkps were unbanned… Which they were not. You basically just shattered your own argument hahahaha
It didn’t decline slowly over time it dropped 8283 players in a week …
There’s not point arguing with you even when your presented with data showing the massive decline after gdkp ban you still aren’t smart enough to figure it out.
Look up my characters on warcraft logs i raid 3 different toons check the logs not just for sod but for som and for classic wow.
This policy was an obvious failure, your fake interest in integrity is pathetic, you let sodapoppin buy 50k gold and dont ban him for even a minute, there are 100000 of bots running for months freely around, go back to making mobile games and dont act like there is any integrity in WoW left, it’s been gone for a long time.
Yup. And actually it would have saved phase 3, and GDKPs have a higher tank retention rate than any other loot system. Second to actual being friends with your guild so much that you all play the same games together lol.
Oh I think GDKP did ruin a lot of things. In the sense that it really changed the dynamic of how players played the game. To say everything is a stretch but GDKP is not something I like. And I am also allowed to have that opinion. In my opinion. You can’t take away someone’s opinion. It is crazy to think you can.
Not saying you think you have the power to take away someone’s opinion but it seem to me that you imply that you believe you have the power to take away someone else opinion.
Am I being passive aggressive you bet I am. Enjoy.
Hoping this will be the next decision you will seriously consider reverting or at least testing for a month or so to see the potential success it will bring to SOD and server growth worldwide.