That’s exactly what happened. The author of Weakaura claimed to have found the leak, yet couldn’t provide their source. When asked they stated they couldn’t prove the validity of the data they were claiming to have obtained. All Blizzard was doing was removing false information.
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The problem is the majority of players don’t like WoW and the subs show that they have left, and are still leaving. What is left is the die hard Blizzard apologists who think everyone else is stupid for being unhappy about trivial mechanics and systems that belong in a phone app… Ion should be fired and a new lead dev needs to come in and weed out the rest of the Ionites to make WoW a great game again.
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To be fair, what was Ion supposed to say?
“What’s wrong with you? WoW is a shell of what it was, idiot!”
He thanked someone for a public compliment on how he does his job. I’m not an Ion fan, but pretty much everyone but an idealistic fool like me would have responded just like he did.
(Me? I would have quit my good job at Blizzard to make a “statement” and would be at the food bank. And none of you would appreciate it, either, lol.)
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The game has gotten miles better since BC.
Wow, the people still playing the game on an RP server for RP still like the game?
Everyone who hates the xpac quit in the first 3 months.
I’m from moon guard and my entire friends list is dead and all quit.
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His loyal employee fan can bring positivity all he want, but numbers don’t lie. When something isn’t liked. It’s not.
Debatable because I think all went downhill slowly after Cataclysm, but WoD did the damage.
“Ion & devs don’t think” true… very true…
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“Unique Gear”…you do know this is the expac that doesn’t have raid tiers or pvp sets right? Or can you not see out of that ridiculous hat?
“It’s fine. I’m fine. We’re all fine. If we look at the metrics, you can see that…”
-Ion and company while Blizzard’s building is burning down
If you think sets make gear not unique you’re seriously misunderstanding what is meant by unique in this context.
Best case scenario it would only have been potentially accurate if his cocky assumption that literally every single WoW player was using his add-on was correct. Even then…
If the metrics look good, why would the company be burning down?
Never got why anyone would be silly enough to believe any kind of metric would be a bad thing.
You are right they are unknown, but they must be so great that we never saw sub-numbers again to validate either of our differing opinions.
The sub numbers were never validation for anything. Other then people on GD liking to take thinks out of context and twist them until they fit their own narrative. Sub numbers were only ever released for the quarterly. When those numbers stopped being relevant to shareholders, they stopped releasing them.
Most shareholders care about one thing the amount of money a company is making them. They don’t care about information that doesn’t attribute to that.
ROFL! What?
So when WoD lost over 50% of the player base… that was indicative of nothing and just GD spinning a narrative?
I am a player and not a shareholder. Sub numbers are a much more interesting metric to me as to the health of the game.
It absolutely validates my sentiments …or serves to tell me, maybe I’m wrong and maybe truly in the minority (unlikely since the known trend was always downward).
Of course I don’t expect a level 11 to understand all of that.
Get leveling big boy, you got 109 levels to go at a lovely scaled and snail’s pace.
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No, he knows there’s quite a few things that are wrong. For example, he openly admitted in the Q&A that the Azerite progression system hasn’t worked well, which is why BDA will be the final raid in which you have to re-earn your Azerite traits. Starting with the Nazjatar patch, they’re changing it so the Azerite gear traits will be permanently unlocked, and further AP progression will instead add new powers to the Heart of Azeroth itself.
Yes, especially while ignoring the spike that occurred at the beginning of WoD. Then we had players who tried to attached the drop in sub numbers to their pet agenda. Numbers without context are useless. No one here knows why or what caused those players to leave.
No. They establish trends.
So when the population is trending downward…you are right, we may have no idea why, but as players we can start to make educated guesses.
No one is denying WoD brought back tons of players…almost record numbers.
Then we lost considerably more than just what was gained.
Whatever the reason…it wasn’t good for the game. Period.
Because metrics don’t account for a lot of things. Like the gamers’ emotions and opinions on game mechanics and such. Numbers don’t tell that necessarily.