I remember when the game seemed a lot more active than it is now, sure. It’s no secret WoW’s subscriptions went up, hit a peak, dropped, and leveled off. That’s how it goes, or at least how it’s gone for every MMO I’ve played. You get a huge influx of people who are interested, everything is super active for a while, but gradually people move on to other things and you’re left with fewer people than at your peak.
People have been saying WoW is dying since at least The Burning Crusade, back when WoW had…what was it? Ten million subs? I don’t know what the numbers are these days, but I’d wager they’re less than ten million. That doesn’t mean the game is dead. If anything, I’m pretty sure Retail is more popular than Classic. I don’t know that with absolute certainty, but I’d wager it’s true.
Not dead but dying. Its been dying in a while now, it jumps up when new expansion goes up but the decline after that gets significantly larger after.
Id say compared to other mmos, it is still fairly healthy though. Maybe the likes of ESO and FF14 has more people playing but being 3rd most populated mmo is still a great thing.
Id say it will jump back to 2nd place after DF release then after a month, people will start burning out again and realize the class balance sucks and too much grind needed just to get weekly vault rewards.
It is dying but it wont die pretty soon though, WoW has a massive population that despite bleeding out tons of players, it can still be considered as a populated mmo.
I’m on moon guard, and often there is a queue to log in; not very dead imo; plus if you look at servers, there is a huge chunk of them with high/full populations, I think retail is very alive and thriving
I posted on my actual level 60 a few posts after it though? I dont make many posts because I dont have much I worry about and I was just curious, Im well aware how negatively received posts like these are so I wanted to open that I wasnt trolling. Im just genuinely curious and a lot of these comments have helped out a fair bit with my choice to go back to retail which I will be doing. Now I just have to decide what server to go between stormrage and proudmoore