Is retail dead?

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Not dead, plenty of people around.

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lol

A little bit of this (well, a lot of this actually) but some of it is the fact that we are a few days out from the Dragonflight pre-patch, and a month out from an expansion launch.

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Retail is dead. No one plays at all. Not even me. This thread is all in your head because you skipped your meds today. You’ve been on the toilet for 3 hours.

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No it’s not dead. Folks are waiting for the new content. This should be apparent. As it has been right before ever other new expansion.

It’s not rocket surgery.

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A lot of people are leveling alts right now because of Winds of Wisdom plus the Hallow’s End XP buff plus timewalking (although if you play Alliance you’re not able to benefit from the holiday buff while in timewalking due to a bug Blizzard still has not fixed—only Horde can do it)

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This. Plus, I imagine it may or not feel dead, depending on one’s server.

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This. And, people may be taking a break/cutting back on how much they play in order to enjoy the new expac. I’ve barely logged in since I got the battlenet balance to buy DF. The pressure to farm gold is gone – and it’s a lovely, lovely feeling.

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wow in every iteration is the best mmo rpg out there

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Retail will get revived next week. It will start to walk two weeks later. two weeks after that it will really be alive again.

I am excited.

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Retail will not die and Dragonflight will show those modern MMO who is still the true king of the mmo space.

World of Warcraft = Netflix (king of mmo and the king of streaming)

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Not to forget some folks are playing classic until the patch/expansion comes out.
It’s ok to play and enjoy both.
It need not be some dramatic either or thing.
I play other games too.
It doesn’t mean I like wow any less.

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Its going to be pretty quiet for a couple weeks yet, then continuously ramp up before exploding toward the end of november.

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No, honestly I feel like why retail seems more “dead” nowadays is that people just straight up barely interact at all with random people. They either like 90% of the time only interact with their guild/friends, or they play solo and don’t have a reason to interact with anyone while they’re doing stuff on their own.

If you feel like the game is dead because you want to socialize with other people, join a guild.

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Naturally.

Minimizing interaction with random strangers on the internet is always a sound plan.

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only a few millions of players left.

WoW = Waiting on Warhammer

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Current participation numbers are a pretty good indicator that people are tired of shadowlands, but starting next week the game will get a burst of life with december feeling very alive

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I logged in and did 8 dungeons today talked in trade for like 20 minutes it’s not completely dead.

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I remember it being exactly like this in WotLK

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It’s pretty dead, anyone stating otherwise is inhaling copium.

But expac’s around the corner, so it’ll at least bloom for a little bit.