People went hard for the first 1-2 months, it’s not things slowed down a bit. I could feel myself starting to get burnt out so purposely playing less for now, but I know I’ll play more soonish.
Wow mine too! you don’t think it could just be that people are asleep or getting ready for work/school and don’t have time to play do you? naa the sky must be falling and the world coming to an end. ya thats it!
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Just because a game doesn’t have it’s population as high 2 months in as it did during launch doesn’t mean it’s dying. A surge of players was expected at launch. The first few weeks was filled with people waiting in queues to relive nostalgia from years before or people wanting to try what they never did before. Now that the initial rush is over, you can expect players to “settle in”
Of course servers were full during morning hours during launch week. People literally took off work and used vacation days to play. Now that vacation is over and people can only play when they’re off work.
The game isn’t dying. Its in for a long haul
You mean flogged.
I expected a significant dropoff within a month. I was actually pretty surprised that we made it about 2 months before the sharp downturn; I was starting to think it might have some legs. But now, here it is. Boom.
Within the past week or two, it feels like it has basically fallen off a cliff. I’m feeling burned out on my level 40 ish “main” now too… I rolled a bunch of alts to keep myself amused. But I feel less and less motivation to play, as more and more of my favorite guildies disappear. So I think there’s a bit of a snowball effect here too.
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Before Classic release my retail guild struggled to get 20 mythic raiders together each week. It was a stressful nightmare.
Now I’m playing Classic with over 80 raiders, only a small handful has missed each raid.
I’m happy.
Agreed. At this point i can relax a bit. Grind some gold or if i feel like it i can try to get some more optimal pieces of gear even though im perfectly fine with what i have now. (Pretty geared out tbh)
Theres no sense of NEEDING to do anything and feeling left behind. I actually can just level my alt now. I can just log on for raid days if i wanted too. I have freedom to set my own goals now.
At this point im trying to corner the market on certain items i know will be valuable in the future and stockpile. My goal is to be set by phase 3 and never have to grind again essentially lol. Ill just flip items etc. Play the AH. Its nice to be able to have time to do other things.
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I ran into this thread, while a “OMG They Took Away Layering REEEE” Thread was right below it. Relatively made around the same time. To that I say, no, Classic isn’t dying.
There is reason why Blizzard add Crossrealms, helps you get people to get group content done cause your server is dead compare to others
On my server I can’t find a mining node for the life of me. After 12PM est, I was lucky if I found 2 mithril nodes per circuit (average was 1). Now I’m in the thorium tier and dreading it.
Meanwhile, my alt can get so few quests done because of the crowds she’s given up and has gone off to grind. Every quest is camped to high heaven and everything’s dead like launch week of a new expansion. Thankfully she’s a hunter and I’m one of those weirdos that actually loves grinding, and she’s a skinner, so it’s fine either way.
I feel for you guys on deader servers but at least on mine, it’s so alive that layering was removed too soon.
On herod theres still a que until about 10pm central. Like you i play in the am, as in 12am-10am. Theres still 5-6 of us online in the early am and when 6am rolls around it starts filling up. I dont think its dying at all.