One thing that is a fundamental truth is that WoW went into free fall headed to a crash in no more than one year after which it was completely dead. That would have been around 2012 and it has been dead ever since. We know this because hundreds of people in the forums said so.
Strangely, however, during this time of death it has remained the number one MMO on the planet and still continues being number one today.
Go figure.
Means you got sharded into a new shard with no one in it yet.
No, the game isn’t dead. lol
It’ll never truly be dead, not soon.
And Midnight will bring some back.
That being said, it’s not gonna be uber-populated because dead realms exist and it’s also later into the season.
Also, empty shards, which is likely where you found yourself.
I’d say half of all players that were here have checked out for the next major thing.
People are farming Undermine right now for the Diablo loot goblins.
Undermine has been overloaded with people farming treasure goblins
The game feels alive to me.
There are always people doing the harder elites in Undermine when ever I roll up to do them. And I always see a bunch of folks in Dornogal.
I play on Proudmoore as Alliance and Tich as Horde, which are OG servers, so maybe it’s just the vibe.
Honestly depends on the population of your shard/realm/crossrealm zone. I always see people around the major cities and below-70s on the non-Chromie Dragon Isles, but elsewhere is kind of scattershot unless it’s a place for farming mounts.
I would argue that ever since the opening of cross server play and sharding, that this is doesn’t really apply. The existence of other players in our immediate vicinity is not important when the majority of the content is trivial to solo and content that exceeds that difficulty has group formation facilitated via the interface that’s just a click away.
This game isn’t as much of a space that players go to be social and engage with eachother as it is a space where people go to do solo activities or be social with the people they are already socially engaged with.
I think it’s a MMO thing in general, the MMO community is much smaller than other video game genres due to stagnation/lack of anything new and are spread out amongst a handful of MMOs so the population of each MMO is always fluctuating from small to… okay in size. Even then, you might just be in a dead/low-population realm. WoW is the most populated MMO out there, maybe second to FF14…not entirely sure.
WoW is far from dead but nowhere near as popular as it once was. It has already been proven that it’ll probably never die considering the amount of attempts on it’s life when it comes to the ridiculous amount of WoW “killers” and WoW clones as well as the controversies surrounding Blizzard. It seems like nothing can knock it out.
Millions still play, more than any other MMO. Might be even more than all others combined.
Been dead since 1993
Not dead at all. Got a party for the Darkmoon Rabbit and Wolf earlier today. WoW’s just in the doldrums of weak expansion at the end of a season and has low players as a result.
I am not sure TWW would be considered a weak expansion by any reliable metric.
Just as predicted by the Mayans. The End of the World [of Warcraft]
Three patches thus far have recycled content from older expansions, boring stone robo npcs, Khadgar’s still alive. Yeah, so far it’s very boring and can’t stand on it’s own. Therefore I consider it a weak expansion.
all these M-dashes, such bad AI lol!
yep it died this morning.
How many times has WoW died now?
Wow has been dying since TBC didn’t you know MR Internet explorer?
YES. WoW died in 2008. And 2009. And 2010, 2011, 2012…
I know because I read it in forums.