mmm, well you could possibly draw some sort of semi accurate numbers based on the population of servers that went down to low pop compared to ones that shot up from there…but idk. Tbh, with everything that has gone on, 2 terrible expansions, controversy (which less people care about than people might actually think), really bad content turn out, terrible systems in the current expansion…players finding out there are in fact other games than WoW, i’d say there’s at least 3 mil left.
It’s just a theory though.
They got quite a few more come by with the rumours of Dragonflight — Myself being one of them.
My mate stated he played all the way through, and it was dead but when the rumours popped about a lot more people returned in preparations etc like myself. After it was confirmed - I was able to witness more people filling the cities, not a lot but by a noticeable amount.
— Additionally, yeah it’s worth pushing by Blizzard since that’s how they keep people engaged & real in more new players - which I’ve also seen around lately, since my guild got a few new WoW players and we had to help show them a few of the ropes so to speak.
HA! blizzard stopping the constant stream of money from WoW, just cause the game would be in trouble? i doubt that very, very much. at worst, i think they’d increase what level you can get to on a trial character, but getting rid of WoW’s money-stream? they’d never do it.
“A number”. You mean the ONE website that drew a straight line from the peak through the last known point and extended it to shadowlands? That clown show?
Participation numbers are dramatically down in all content. PvP has practically gone away. Every discord I’m in (hint: one of them is Ruin) is talking about how everybody is taking an indefinite break because there’s nothing to do.
You have zero support for your claim that no one has left the game, and they’ll all be right back, credit cards in hand. They fooled easily convinced people by putting all the big servers into a mega crz. It worked to trick you, didn’t it? You don’t see all those dead medium and low pop servers that are dead even though they’re all crz’d together, so they don’t exist for you. They can’t exist as long as you keep repeating to yourself that no one has left the game, even though there is literally nothing to do right now, except maybe post on the forum pretending that there’s nothing wrong.
And it’s interesting that you decided to twist what I said into “failing”, because that wasn’t what I said at all. I was merely disputing your claim that literally no one has left the game. It must be true, because you keep repeating it off that script you guys are using.
You don’t read “trade magazines”. If you did you would know that they don’t support your claim that everybody is still playing shadowlands. Blizzard games are losing market share across the board. MAU’s are falling. And earnings from Diablo Immoral are only 25% of what they were the same period that Diablo 3 went on sale.
LOL. Just keep repeating your mantra and surely if you can convince one person in the forum that your fabrications are truth, that will fix everything!
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Lightbringer there was 37 playing at 12:13 AM
If I had to ballpark it I’d say around a mill?
Hard to tell with all the cross realm, Classic and content drought.
It had 1.7 million when I checked 5 months ago. Now it is almost less than a million.
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Doncha love when people throw out random numbers / guesses…
Subs don’t even matter now. They get tons of revenue from tokens and whales with the cash shop.
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games such as wow now cater to a whale market instead of appealing to normal people
Some people have never played on a dead game and it shows.
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I never said no one has left the game.
My point is: There is not enough evidence to claim WOW is losing a significant number of players.
Your point seems to be: There is not enough evidence for me to say there is not enough evidence.
Well there is plenty of evidence on my side. If I’m wrong, show me the evidence that WOW has dropped to the point where is failing.
Of course, we don’t have numbers about WoW players specifically, but Blizzard MAUs have been dropping steadily each time they are published in a quarterly report. Most recently, Blizzard lost 2 million MAUs despite the release of 9.2.
Also, the introduction of cross-faction functionality for premade groups and region-wide auction house functionality seems to indicate that an entire faction and entire servers need more players to guarantee a favorable gaming experience.
You have every right to enjoy the game and keep playing, but all indicators point to a significant decline in players.
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they should go free to play and start putting all the mythic transmogs onto the shop just like swtor does now.
but their sets are designed for the shop. the raids drop some ugly looking gear
I have seen many WoW player get on Diablo Immortal, they lasted less than a week though.
It’s only my observation, I know I’m right about what I have seen I just don’t have the absolute certainty that every WoW player that got on D:I lasted less than a week.
Assuming Legion staunched the WoD bleeding, and BFA/SL opened that wound wide open again…
https://www.sggaminginfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wow-sub-numbers-1024x342.jpg
I’d say about maybe 3 mil, that’s only impressive cause most MMOs are in the thousands at best.
We also know that according to census data 80% something of the playerbase left between BFA and SL…
WoW currently is just riding its own former coattails right now of being a long running formerly well received MMO…
28 and going strong*. Terror of Luclin focuses on the Mistmoor Vampires.
EQ is having it’s 23’rd anniversary celebration now.
They also have player housing 
*Strong as in steady niche playerbase that keeps buying expansions
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