How to get 12 million subs back. Step by step guide

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Playable Vulpera alone will bring a ton of furries and they usually spend a ton of money on whatever they’re doing.

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Sorry if this is so weird and random but you look so cute.
:speak_no_evil:

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Stating things you like and don’t like or things you want to change doesn’t make you a whining child. You’d think at 30 that’s something you could deduce.

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Lol, most of the thing you listed are not interesting for a lot of players, some of these suggestions are aimed to mythic raiders and I am pretty sure mythic raiders are not even 5% of the population.

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I like most of your suggestions, and I hope they implement some or even all of them.

That said, the key to get 12M subs back is to first prioritize sub numbers as a metric of MMORPG health, which they haven’t done since mid-Cataclysm. There’s a reason they no longer do this, and it’s because sub numbers are less-important than other methods of generating revenue today, compared to how important they were a decade or so ago.

I understand the desire of a player who pays for a subscription every month to want that revenue to be the be-all-end-all of Blizzard’s business health decisions. It gives us a sense of power, like we can vote with our dollars and pay for what we want.

It’s just that it is no longer the case that the MMORPG business works that way. I don’t think that business model will ever come back.

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You forgot to mention add a bunch of new battlegrounds, Like I said before this game would be so much more enjoyable if there were new BGs released like Raids or content patches - And bring back PvP Gear Vendors and that would satisfy me lots

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Get rid of everything after LK and go from there

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Explain to me how any of those things pertain only to mythic raiders. Besides the one point about 25 man mythic

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#3 deliberately contradicts #1. Titanforging started in MoP

#5 can’t happen. High Elves are Horde. Get used to it.

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They can do both. Current revenue model would generate way more money with more subs, on top of the sub fees

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  • MoP class design, Challenge Modes and itemization.
  • Legion Mage Tower and AP / Artifact color skin variations.
  • Wrath style rep tabards (not the exalted ones) for alternate rep grinding over dailies / WQ.

All of these should be staples in every expansion.

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They removed those since Wrath because people were grinding dungeons non-stop and burning out. Then they complained they had nothing to do.

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Yes, you can. That’s what the entire marketing industry is built upon.

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Problems sometimes lead to worse solutions. Better to have the problem. Aside from that Wrath didn’t have challenge modes, mythic+, mage tower and a lot of other things that exist at end game now.

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Is there really that big a demand for this? I certainly don’t want one.

There are already wolves, cows, and pandas.

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Doesn’t negate the burn out grinding part. They didn’t like it.

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Yet they caused it. Too much of a good thing is a bad thing and again another example of the majority being penalized from something the minority did

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Here was the problem with Wrath. Aside from raiding nothing else existed at end game besides tabard rep grinding. Mythic dungeons didn’t exist. Heroic dungeons themselves were obsolete once you started raiding. There were no artifacts, no mage tower, nothing.

So of course once people finish grinding rep they’ll be bored.

Dungeons now are scaled to be applicable for the entire expansion. So that problem is long gone. The big problem now is they gated rep behind really BORING dailies / WQs. People really want the option to go back to getting rep from dungeons. I’m one of them.

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Smashy is right, RPG’s are not the flavor for everyone-deserves-a-trophy ADD millenials. Let’s accept this and stop changing everything that made WoW great (the author of this thread has alot of it listed) otherwise we will remove the dedicated player base and end up with an island expedition type phone game.

Blizzard, STOP MAKING CHANGES just for change sake.

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Its too late to regain 12 million players. Alot of people have simply moved on in life.
What blizzard needs to realize is that the days of having no competition are gone. They need to be creative again, instead of sitting on their laurels. They’re stuck back in their glory days. Completely out of touch with the current situation.

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