I’ve had several friends return after quitting retail 7-8 months ago to go to Classic. I think most of them still prefer/play Classic but are enjoying the new raid and other things out now.
I see more and more people say WoW feels like a “seasonal” game, so I only expect more surges at the start and continually drop off… kind of like Diablo 3, which if the devs that went from D3 to WoW are still here at m unsurprised.
The biggest disconnect in wow is between art team and dev team.
the zones are not bad. most are very nicely made, if not but a couple inconvenient cliff designs, but the systems to keep players engaged in a fun way have failed in every possible way.
the most beautiful game in the world matters nothing if it doesn’t excite you to play.
Nope, my friends list is back to what it was when SL launched. Throughout all of SL, I had two friends leave the game and now they’re back. Zones are packed no matter what time of the day I log in. Rares die faster than I can get to them. Tons of pugs in group finder running content. My guild usually has people online doing stuff and we will begin raiding next week.
It’s always fun when people post their anecdotal experience as indicative of some larger trend. And the idea that because a bunch of people who follow a streamer around all day (who likely have mommy and daddy pay for their account) is indicative of some mass exodus.
No wonder most of my groups are not returning to WoW in 9.1.
We don’t like our time and money being disrespected. We don’t like to feel punished for wanting to play the game more.
No wonder most didn’t bother coming back.
Yes, on July 5th, this site was reporting 3 times the number of played characters at max lvl
In 4 days 2/3rds of played characters have just vanished meaning they haven’t been touched in over a month.
If there’s a dip I haven’t seen any of it.
Just go to Korthia, there is a ton of people there.
I think that is more to do with sharding rather than actual player numbers. Are they all from your server/cluster?
I have no idea. Does it matter?
Well, we had to PuG for raid on Tuesday just to get a 10 man team. Two more people should show up tonight, but a lot just seem like they’re gone. So yeah, I’d say that’s a case of low player volume since we have never had to PuG on the first day as far as I can remember during my time on the team.
I had a hunch last week though because no one was really logging on for Korthia and such. The time between tiers was just way too long. Most havent logged on in months.
The people in denial eventually become believers when their own friend lists begin to disappear. Until then they are going to deny these things
Low interest, low return.
They should open this game up to the modding community already.
They’re just hurting themselves at this point by stifling our ability to create content for them.
This is what copium looks like
But here you are.
gg
All you really got is raid.
The only other options is M+ if that’s your thing or PVP.
Which because they again, put weekly caps, to limit your fun to a given amount a week, once you hit that cap. you basically just raid log.
Still denying the problem I see.
Does Blizzard have you on their payroll? You seem to be as tone deaf as them.
Other companies are doing big sale promotions and announcements. Even Guild Wars 2 is being resurrected from the dead with several announcement about future plans and the return of their better development team.
In the corporate world, when this many companies are doing this amount of marketing campaigns and sale promotions, it means they all smell blood in the water with real internal data validating it. The titan is bleeding out and the sharks are surrounding it.
Lolwat. This makes about as much sense as the troll posting random music videos earlier toady.
Was it at least good music? Or are we talking baby sharks levels here? The latter should come with prison time.