Seriously, learn to google. Expand your horizons and escape your bubble.
Because the lore has been increasingly shoved down our throats with every new expansion, so the least they could do is try to make it halfway decent. At this rate, they should just stop trying to have an overarching plot at all.
From November to January, revenue fell by 61% and user numbers declined by 41% (these figures do not include China). This roughly matches the pattern seen for the past several expansions, though Shadowlands had a bigger launch.
Huh wow. It was a nothingburger. How deeply unexpected.
Just another nothing burger, I guess
Yeah. Companies want to know about their competitors and what consumer opinions are. Is this a shocking revelation to you?
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When they’ve never done this before in the past? Yeah.
Look, I’ve never been the one saying WoW is dying in the past. I knew the “WoW killers” would never succeed in overtaking WoW. But there is definitely something bigger going on right now with the shift in players over to other games I haven’t seen before.
Why you don’t care about the lore?
If you don’t enjoy the story why do you play mmorpg in the first place, for raiding?
Well I can get it but it’s also not a large amount of people who play mmorpg only for raiding
I recall the exact same thing being said during Cata, MoP, WoD, Legion and BFA.
Or perhaps there’s nothing really to it, and its just the stress of the past year and half showing up in people being especially vitrolic and loud? Perhaps more people are online and not going out as much? Perhaps they’re sharing their opinions more online than they did before.
Regardless, it makes little difference in the end. If Blizzard were in such fear they’d be emulating FF14, but they’re not stupid so they’re not going to do that.
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Okay, I showed you the data and even mentioned I was never apart of that crowd. But sure, the game is totally fine. So have fun doing chores, playing boring classes, and reading half-a$$ed stories then.
Keep that head in the sand, looks good on you.
I honestly don’t. I used to. But it’s starting to age enough for me to no longer care about it.
But hey, I still buy the Jailer’s New Look even though he’s a meme of Shadowlands at times.
I mean you made two crappy arguments that could be dismissed by a handwave. That’s on you lmao.
Heck the first one is just a clear display of bias. You didnt even read the material, the numbers just caught your attention. You went seeking for your own preconcieved notion
Weird tho that FF14 doesn’t suffer from such huge subscriber drops.
BfA was basically a marathon of trying to bring back players and fixing their game.
So yeah, if you’re going to say that 41% sub loss is totally fine thats fine, but clearly Blizzard disagrees with you. /shrug
I agree. I replayed WC3 for the nostalgia and realized the story was always trash, I was just too young to see how bad it was.
Since then, I really just see WoW’s lore as mildly amusing. I stopped getting mad or passionate about it.
I like WoW’s rendition of the mage and druid classes, and I’m attached to my characters. That’s about it.
I’ve said it in a past thread and I will repeat my views here. I do enjoy the lore as I learn it, but seeing that this is all fantasy I don’t take it very seriously or get upset when things don’t go the way I feel they should. In order to appreciate fantasy, you have to suspend your own disbelief and go with the flow of the story.
I think for a lot of people, they are just tired of the game. Some of them have been spending years playing it, every day, and will cling on to just about any reason to voice their frustration. If the cinematic had Sylvanas die, some of them would still complain about it without even realizing what they are doing. If they are ready to quit over this one thing, after every other weird lore scenario that has happened in WoW, they were probably going to quit regardless.
This is pretty easy to confirm when you look over some of their past posts, especially if they are rather toxic in general, and if they speak down to people who are still enjoying it.
I like and play my characters cos I like their lore. Some of course I play for gameplay reasons but mainly for lore reaons.
Interesting difference.
gotta be honest, i pay almost no attention to it at all. if i can’t glean it from the quests i’m doing, it’s invisible to me. i don’t know why we’re in X raid killing Y boss. don’t care. they’re there so i’m killing them.
The Lore for me kinda peaked at Legion(as far as me caring about). From BFA onwards ive been skipping cutscenes.
because the lore’s always been a driving force for why players do anything in the game. from picking your race/class combo, to where you’d quest, to why you’d go into an expansion. this is why people care about the lore, this is why wotlk had a crap-ton of players back in the day, this is why when a new expansion comes-out, everyone is hyped as heck for it (aside from… y’know, new content.).
because stories have power. They can be an escape, a gateway into fantastical worlds that defy reality, offer a brighter outlook on the world as a whole, help build a sound belief system or way of thinking, build a strong moral compass, perhaps even give someone the strength to keep going forward . . . but this . . . this is a farce. this is devoid of hope, logic, and reasoning to the point where I’m beginning to question if I wasted all these years on this story . . .
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