A number of gaming publications disagree with your theory about a big player drop off in WOW. They still talk about it being one of the top MMOs.
Also, you would expect people to leave. WOW is almost 20 years old in an industry where 5 years is considered middle aged and 10 years is considered an antique and yet it’s doing well.
You have no proof that the game is failing. It’s just your theory. Trade magazines say it’s not failing. You are at the short end of the stick when it comes to proving your point.
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That’s an interesting argument Tiffany. Did you know I can make it all go away by plugging my ears and going lalalalala until everyone who disagrees with me goes away, making me by default right because no one will talk to me? Thats about the quality of argument you’ll get in threads like these.
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most mmo’s never had a million subs it ain’t nothing to brag about wow being at top still. there’s only 2 mmo’s left worth playing if your trying to be social in a mmo. if dragonflight is a flop have fun cause y’all know shadowlands went to crap quick. you think they put cross faction in for you it’s just preparing for the inevitable the dropping player numbers. it’s just sad kids don’t get into mmo’s anymore or they might of actually came out with a new mmo to put ff and wow to death.
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop?
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Impossible to know, but clearly more than enough to keep the game going via a subscription model.
People keep guessing, but none of those guesses can be considered accurate due to how they collect their information.
If the sub numbers were a problem, then this game would have already gone free to play, because there does come a point in an MMOs life when the free to play model does generate more money for a game than a subscription model, and Blizzard would be foolish to not make that move when it was clear they weren’t making enough money with the current model. Blizzard devs have even stated that they’d only consider F2P if it makes financial sense for them to do so.
I heard it was around 4 million which still incredibly good for a pay to play game
And thats during some major content droughts as well!
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You know sharding is a thing right? You could be on a shard with players not from your server who are in the same time zone as you. As for making groups, did you know you could make a group and have people from OCE join you?
They made these kind of changes over the years because the playing base was getting smaller. Granted you are right, there are enough players, but it also seems much larger than what is actually is.
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but in those cases, their server shows as part of their name so it is obvious that they are from other servers.
I read a article back in the day when I first started playing WoW. It said that at its peak.
EQ had around 800k players. But have also read that it was around one million at its peak.
Yep - money always talks at the end of the day. clearly the sub model is still working.
Some servers are ‘merged’ so it shows a different server name, yet they could be technically on the same server as you.
Sub numbers will be very low right now, my Oceanic server has died and I don’t feel I should have to pay to move all my characters to a more active server…
Ideally it should be about 50/50.
and that’s jsut raid.
Run /who with special “regex” and you see fun stuff. somewhere along the way boosty rogue spam of intro tbcc dungeon became a thing.
MAge and pally common. But mage is looking to taken down a peg soon. Its on euro beta reports anyway. There as tested other classes have risen to xp spam kings for levelers.
also why tbcc’s numbers may be inflated over retails. retail offers no real reason to care long term to put it bluntly as I see it.
Yay…you got the mythic jailor drop! you rock. welcome to DF…its useless in 1 hour of the game release day. Here is your crap green that is +20 ilevels over it! for a basic quest.
So my theory is dual players are in tbcc more getting swp/bt/za fit. that…pans out much better. that gear is carrying them to level 80. that gear in beta is already clearing heroic dungeon even lol.
WoW is already free to play for people that do enough world content on multiple toons and don’t blow their gold on boosts or BoEs.
