Do you think WoW will continue to survive and generate a meaningful amount of revenue for Blizzard after this expansion? How long do you think the game will last?
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Whew! Iām glad you posted this because I felt like WoW was a dead game until I read this.
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The pessimist in me wants to say it wonāt last much longer. The realist would probably say we got a few more years at least before the systems simply canāt handle it anymore.
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If robot can survive
As long as it makes money, it will continue on. I mean, Everquest still exists and is 6 (?) years older and hasnāt been at the top since 2004.
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Yes.
The franchise is solid. DF is what you get when they yank borrowed power out ā no reason to play.
Folks play for power, when they get it, they stop. As with all games, the novelty and āfun-nessā as an activity fades, especially when thereās no reward.
If you have maxed out the reps and are comfortable with your gear, thereās little reason to play right now. You can level alts, if thatās your thing, but thereās no REASON to do that save for leveling alts.
With no power grind, nobody grinds, nobody plays. The Dreamsurges are dead because thereās no power there, just cosmetics, which a lot of folks donāt care much about.
So.
The game isnāt going anywhere. Theyāre always working on the next two expansions. They havenāt run out of ideas yet. Still stories to tell.
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Considering this is still one the most active players mmo, and looking at other mmos like UO that have been around even longer yet have a very small population, WoW will be around for a long long time still. WoW is still bringing in plenty of money.
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For the 10th time, yes.
I give it at least ten years in some form or another.
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It will last but it will continue to trickle further and further away from how it was originally. It will adapt to make the most revenue for what it is. The WoW as we knew it from Vanilla to MoP will be in a WoW museum soon enough.
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IF they can survive SL they can survive anything
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Given the status of EverQuest still kicking around, Iād say WoW servers will be up until the cost to keep them up outweighs the revenues they bring in. That could be another decade given how addicted some whales seem to be! 
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Definitely still the most popular game of its genre and probably will always be as long as they keep making expansions with this quality to regain loyal fans. If they make another shadowlands the game will continue to die.
SL was the point where CCs stopped giving useful advice and started farming for clicks off the anti WOW echo chamber. Seeing as how some of them were million sub CCs, it created the illusion that WOW was in trouble.
There is no evidence that it was. Outside the echo chamber there is not a shred of evidence that āthe playersā in general didnāt like SL. In fact I sill see players there.
Itās an old game, you would expect subs to be tailing off but itās still one of the top MMOs which it would not be if the CCs and echo chamber were right about itās demise.
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A lot longer than me probably.
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3 more expansions unless something miraculous happens on the planet.
Thats about 6 years.
WoW wont die because of WoW or the player base.
Itāll be killed by politics.
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Not entirely. For those of us like me who donāt do M+ or raid, we can get one Wyrm crest a week which is at least a slow path to improvement.
Until they implement the rumored trade-ups in 10.2 at least.
As has been said, the game will survive as long as it keeps being profitable enough.
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But will it? People will just run private servers then and tailor them to their reality. I saw a Calvin and Hobbes Strip on it many years ago, and we saw it happen again with what happened on Nostralius. Ah here I found it.
What will really happen is that will happen again, but this time when Blizzard sends C&Ds they will be ignored. Why? Because Politics drive people off the deep end, and make them feel like the victim, even as they fight āthe good fightā against āthe manā. Or whatever nonsense one subscribes to on any given day.
I only base this trend off precedent and prior instances of this sort of flagrant IP theft. Look what happened with Harry Potter and Rowling. Same thing will happen here at a certain point. Itās probably already happening tbh. Donāt agree with a single bit of it, but thatās what humanityās mental speed is right now.
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This game survived WoD. It will survive the heat death of the universe.
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Tend to agree.
Longer than us, unless humanity ends.