Twitch had 1.2 million concurrent viewers for classic wow! That’s almost equal to the amount of active retail subs (between 1 and 2 million) of just twitch viewership. Do you guys think we’ll see the death of retail with most players migrating to classic?
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Yes. For a while now
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no…? wtf is wrong with y’all
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I played during original WoW. I’m so excited for all of the people that are playing, trying to play, and who will continue to play the new Classic WoW.
But…I’ll never go back. I don’t have the time, my life has changed and I’m content with doing my own thing in retail. I wish everyone in Classic the best of luck!
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They are here to just pat each other on the back and hate on retail.
Look, if retail was dead, and unprofitable they wouldnt have put funds into classic. Retail has a lower pop than peak times, for sure, but its still massively popular with a certain crowd. Just let them do their thing and enjoy classic.
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Can you elaborate?
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retail will suffer some attrition because of the novelty of classic, but the tourists will go back home before long, I think.
Dead? No.
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I’m not hating on anything. How much of a stronger indication do you need that the current direction they are taking the game is not healthy? How out of touch with reality can you be?
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retail as many more players than classic
the reason classic has so many viewers on twitch is bc it’s new, and streaming it will bring viewers
I don’t play retail myself and haven’t for roughly a year but that’s a pretty easy thing to deduce. A lot of these vanilla streamers will move on and forget when the hype dies down (as will a lot of the players too)
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This is delusional… At least at this current moment in time. You’re right though, it is popular because it’s new the question is what is the long term health of the game.
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Wow classis may not be classic forever. They already said that they might entertain the idea of BC if the fans have enough demand
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I would consider it healthy enough. 15 year old game, still going strong, high populations. It might not be what you want*, and that is fine, but its not some dead game.
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That would be special BC servers or special progression servers. They wont force a non-classic experience on classic players.
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I have a feeling retail has more than 1-2 million subs. In a few weeks populations on classic will drop but remain solid and retail will be fine as well. One doesn’t have to die
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No. Classic is only for people who never played Vanilla. I’ve been playing this game regularly since it first came out. The nostaliga and boredom will die in a couple days. I’m much more looking forward to my Mythic Eternal Palace raid tonight then running around collecting boars teeth.
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I think you’re delusional if you think classic has more players than retail. Look at how many servers retail has. Compare it to classic. Hype and “temporary guests” do not equal concurrent players.
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you have a source for this number right?
but seriously every sub is a “retail sub” because every sub gives access to retail servers first and foremost with the added bonus of the classic servers
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Only until they add pvp as a realm choice again on retail and setup some pristine servers.
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Literally the first result when you google wow retail subcount… holy crap you people are delusional. Do you think statistical analysis is some made up thing?
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Why is it that 90% of the posts in this discussion forum are about how retail is dead or dying as a result of what is essentially an entirely new expansion for the game that launched less than 24 hours ago.
Yall sound like bitter ex-girlfriends. Grow up and go enjoy your video game.
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