They didn’t exactly take it out of the game. They changed it to “war mode” where you can basically toggle between a PVP environment and a PVE environment.
That caused instabilities that resulted in the minority faction almost entirely leaving war mode in 8.1 - a worse version of the instability that had caused almost all the PVP servers to go to one faction or the other.
In Blizzard’s defense, when it was suggested that they try to emulate the “Stranglethorn Vale” strategy of facilitating world PVP by putting opposing quests in close proximity, they did that with “assaults” in 8.1. These were wildly successful among the world PVP crowd.
Unfortunately, they abandoned the concept in 8.2 for a “PVP event” strategy that had been proven to fail to work repeatedly over many expansions. Naturally it failed again.
Crazy, mythic plus provides 440 gear and mythic raids provide 445. I guess though you are right, that is stronger and the only path.
I havnt dont 2 of the retail zones, 3 if you include naz, besides the bare minimum. I cant fly in BfA either, and that is also fine. But, are you trying to conflate character story with world story? If so, thats fine. But again, I have a different character story already. I skipped zones I wanted to skip.
And Activision-Blizzard’s only statement on WoW subs in the last few years was the last quarter when they said there was an increase. Not how much, how much it was before or after just an increase.
Wow’s been “dead” damn near every expansion yet there’s still more than enough people to play with. It’s not dead and won’t be for a long time. I’m happy i get to go home to classic and am happy that people enjoy retail. Stop this nonsense and let people enjoy the game they want to play.
Wtf are you talking about?
Retail is not even close to dead. The “leaked” sub numbers was proven as fake multiple times. WoD was worse and had like 5.5 million worldwide.
Even if it had the numbers you said, that’s not even close to dead still. It would still be the most populated MMO.
You can just go to Mechagon kill rares and there will be tons of people dropping from the air around you. If you queue from raids there will be loads of people joining
I love classic. But don’t be delusional. There will be more people playing retail than classic after a short period of time.
To get the absolute very best gear in absolutely every slot, you have to do Mythic+ and mythic raiding and Benthic pearling and get super lucky on RNG and maybe have gotten your benthic gear before it quit socketing. The only realistic way to do that is to qualify for the Mythic+ competition where you get to pick your gear.
Realistically, Mythic+ is a much better gear progression path. At the top level, being spammable, as you say, gives you, on average, better gear, faster.
Where most players are, you get far better gear in Mythic+ than in raiding. You can do +7, comparable to normal raiding in difficulty, for weekly rewards 15 ilvl higher. You can do +10, for that 440 gear, at the same difficulty as 430s from entry level heroic raiding. In addition, you only have to spend 1 hour in 1 dungeon instead of 4-6 hours trying to progress through the raids, each week.
No they are not “fake”. It has nothing to do with “leaked sub numbers”. People who are much smarter than you have been able to give us good estimates of the active sub count. This is not complicated stuff. The conspiracy theory that these estimates are somehow off by millions is delusional and only shows you don’t understand basic statistics.