Go to the AH on thrall or any real Full servers then come back to AM…that’s the difference.
People come and go from anything. Stay if you like it. Or leave and try something else, and you can return if you wanna come back. It’s okay. Follow your feelings.
But the truth is
Nothing’s near WoW right now… so, the game is fine. At least for now.
After last night’s trying to pull some people into a mythic group I would say there has been some kind of a drop off.
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What am I supposed to be looking at?
I have been playing other games more as of late and if it weren’t for RP I would not have a WoW sub at all.
Not a fan of how gearing works for pvp or pve.
edit: Also FFXI is still live and lots of people play it.
FFXVI already confirmed to be single player ps5 game. Feb 5th they’re announcing 6.0 for FFXIV. I don’t think FFXIV has even begun to experience the success it deserves. Once WoW players wake up to it fully it’s over. Up to now WoW hasn’t been quite bad enough for players to get over either paying for a MSQ skip or just grinding through the story in FFXIV to get to what really matters to most WoW players.
It’s a slow start and the game literally is a visual novel for 90% of the time. Music fanfare, tons of reading that isn’t translated even close to being accurate to the japanese source dialogue. Honestly, you might as well just skip everything for that very reason because if you can’t speak japanese you’re not experiencing anything even close to the real story. I can’t speak japanese, but I am a lifelong weeb and I can tell that the japanese voices are saying something very different than the english translations the majority of the time. For english players there’s no real reason to respect the story, no real reason to feel bad about skipping every last cutscene. I still am playing through it, but mayhap it’s a mistake to care about something that was clearly written by a single localization writer who only knows how to write in one style. Mayhap I am mistaken tho. I wonder how many times the guy actually uses the word mayhap. It’s sad and disrespectful to the source material but whatever. That’s localization for you.
I don’t believe square has butchered their series the way you say. Chrono trigger is kinda perfect as is. It could do with being upgraded to the octopath traveller engine and spend the rest of its history on the nintendo switch but it could also just go onto the snes online app for switch and that would be doing it justice. They have been remaking so many of their old ips, and worked on a bunch of new ones too.
Diablo 3 was released in 2012, SC2 was released in 2010. OW is the first real new thing blizzard did, and even that was a long time ago now. Blizzard is much lazier than square enix imo. They just update their 4 ips and leave it at that for up to and over a decade. OW was really cool but in the end even it was a predatory game, in many more ways than one.
I do think you have been out of the loop for square enix, and maybe a little prejudice or even spiteful toward them for your feelings about chrono trigger still not having a remake lol.
Immersion is one thing, RP immersion is something else. I can completely immerse myself into the role of being sekiro, but it’s not an RP experience. It’s an action adventure experience. Bloodborne and dark souls are an RP experience, the protagonist is of my choosing completely, and they are silent. I choose the dialogue, and I voice the line in my head. It’s all me aside from the combat noises the character makes.
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https://mmo-population.com/r/wow/stats
it’s currently a little under half of the Peak for Shadowlands and is beginning to flatten out to the people like me who will just play regardless
That sites methods for gathering data are suspect. They go off of ‘feels’ which isn’t an accurate tool for data collection.
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You can see the mirror of your server pop reflected in AH values. Almost all trade goods in AH drop more than 50% in price in a week. Widowbloom from 120 to 40 in a week, ores, leather all. No demand. Bots are flooding the AH and no one is buying. People is leaving and with the state of gearing is understandable.
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I left. Stayed on the forums because I bought a 6 month sub. I don’t feel like playing.
I mean I truly the more I think about it hated the end game.
I think I’m just over MMOs now in general. They’re really not good RPGs. I have more enjoyment playing DnD on a weekly basis.
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Yes. TBC Classic will save Shadowlands like Classic saved BFA. Shadowlands is incredibly boring already. People are already canceling their subs and its only the first raid tier. Look no further than Twitch, the WoW section has lost so many viewers since Shadowlands launch. Bring on TBC! The franchise needs it.
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i stopped playing a couple weeks ago…probably the earliest for me from a new expansion stand point. I have been here since Vanilla. Feels bad.
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It’s not just Chrono Trigger they’ve abandoned, it’s Xenogears, Threads of Fate, and a bunch of other titles…
Unfortunately that is the norm these days, not just for them but a lot of other companies, they find one game that is their cash cow and they just milk that for all they can… nobody really tries to innovate with a new series, or at least come up with new entries to abandoned franchises anymore if they feel they don’t have to, and this leads to a decline in gaming overall in various ways…
Are you familiar with Monolithsoft by chance? They were founded by a number of the former team members who worked on Xenogears, because they split from the company after they were pretty much barred from working on a sequel… after its founding, they reimagined the whole series as Xenosaga, and later Xenoblade Chronicles…
Mike Morhaime did something similar after he left Blizzard, having started Dreamhaven Studios, but I haven’t heard much about what their first games are going to be…
More developers / writers need to do this IMO, especially away from companies that have gotten “too big to fail,” and a lot of times they are laid-off anyway for other reasons so they might as well… I am fairly certain a majority of those laid-off Blizzard employees are working at Dreamhaven now…
The problem is, due in part to contracts and also how difficult it is to start up a new studio – especially these days – people prefer the security of their existing job at the “too big to fail” corporations, rather than actually starting something new, which is more difficult and even scary for a number of reasons…
Square Enix could still come out with a sequel to Chrono Cross at least, if not a remake to Chrono Trigger… the former left the series wide-open for a sequel, whether that was the writers’ intention or not… they could even do it between episodes of the FF7 Remake, but if the latter and other Final Fantasies are all they come out with, it just confirms to me that they only care about Final Fantasy…
Call me whatever you will, I’m not giving Square Enix another penny while the Chrono series remains neglected…
Shadowlands bad.
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so? you do realize that things can get even worse than the previous worst ever, right?
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Basically this, character progression and getting stronger does ‘feel good’. Not to mention the lag… I don’t recall that being as bad last expac.
I’m fine with companies abandoning IPs anyway. I don’t think blizzard needs to make any more lost vikings games.
Leads to other companies rising up to fill the void in the industry, like monolithsoft as you brought up.
Mike Morhaime will do something similar in the future and I hope his team is as successful as monolithsoft was with their successor to the xenogears IP. I don’t believe those companies should be able to latch onto the success of the companies they previously were affiliated with though. If they become a separate business entity then they need to start over. Even if it wasn’t their choice to become a separate business entity. I also don’t believe it’s reasonable to continue a series just because the devs want to, it is a business after all. I don’t have any interest in monolithsoft personally, but I know they are successful and good for them.
In the end people like stability because we all have to survive, taking big risks on an innovative video game isn’t the smartest way to live life. I disagree that square enix has been playing it overly safe though, the gameplay mechanics of their main IP have been changed so much that I can’t even consider them JRPGs anymore. They’ve made 2 very huge mmos within the last 20 years and both are still active. One is extremely successful and still on the uprising, one is strangely beloved even though it feels like it plays at .25x speed. FFXIV was a redemption to square enix for me, I really consider it THE final fantasy. That’s what the experience feels like when I play.
Sure they could make sequels to all those titles, I think crono trigger ended perfectly though and has perfect art and gameplay. I think they are VERY averse to harming the image and legacy of what is arguably the best and most iconic JRPG ever made. Especially after how strange crono cross was. Devastating loss of akira toriyama character designs and a really disgusting downgrade to ps1 primitive 3d graphics from peak snes pixel graphics.
That’s fair enough, not the hill I’d die on but to each their own. Personally I was waiting on square to make a JRPG that played the way they did up to ff-x/x-2. The only reason I gave FFXIV a chance is because shadowlands is too time-gated and I wanted to vent by being very very casual in a game made by a company I didn’t particularly care about. Now I no longer have interest in playing WoW as is, and I truly love square enix again. I also feel un-jaded toward gaming in general. It’s been a very pleasant surprise considering how I went into FFXIV solely to improve my WoW experience. Now there is no WoW experience lol. Every problem with shadowlands instantly solved.
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That’s not new. After SW:TOR’s failure to compete with WoW in 2011, the gaming industry shifted to making more innovative MMORPGs instead of making more WoW-clones and wondering why you can’t out-WoW WoW. 
But I suspect a fresh new WoW ripoff à la RIFT, with a focus on raiding, open world and faction PvP (like in the old days of WoW) would be more successful in 2021 against current WoW than it was during the game’s prime days. Perhaps that’s what Riot are cooking too, given who is working there.
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Absolutely but a lot of it is a matter of opinion more than fact in regards to how bad it is.
Usually starts falling off right around the time they drop the first 6month resub reward. This is BFA’s Dreadwake mount today. I remember it being a pretty big ghost town in the month or two following that.
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