So you have no problem, well you have problems but do it anyway, playing a game where you feel the developers are out to get you?
As for the player base being down, it’s a theory. If you do a search on “Top MMOs”, half of them say WOW is number one, the rest have it in the top three.
But even if it is down you will have a hard time convincing people around here it’s because of implementing designs. The top theory is that people left because of the content of BFA and SL.
Then there are other possible reasons as well for a shrinking player base:
When WOW was first created it was one of the only D&D like MMOs around. Now there are hundreds of new ones each year.
In an industry where 5 years is middle aged and 10 years is an antique, WOW is an 18 year old game competing with tons of new technology.
The trend these days is toward social media and mobile where WOW doesn’t play well.
Advertising works and negative advertising does as well. There are CCs like Bueller, Asmongold and Preach, who have millions of subscriptions themselves, who mock the game geting clicks from angry players. That could be hurting subscription rates.
3 weeks of +18% bonus exp is plenty enough for me. Especially when Dracthyr leveling time is included in those 3 weeks
And apparently there’s some world boss or something that gives 272 gear? I don’t know I haven’t actively participated in an anniversary since uh…the 5th one…
Actually for years there has been a mog, toy or pet that could be purchased with the 200 Timewalking Badges from the Anniversary Gift package, nothing big, just a nice little gift. But not this year. Nothing else new with all else going on is understandable, but this, this is just poor customer relations.
i swear to god, i have a gremlin… or gnome… that hides in my room and does the same thing when i’m not looking. i can’t wait to find and punt that SoB.
This is just flat out wrong. This may have been true pre-10th anniversary, but it hasn’t been since, and that was 8 years ago. (The only anniversarys pre-10th that awarded anything was the 4th and 5th, the first 2 achievement ones. 6-9 only gave the exp bonus.)
11th Anniversary included the VanCleef Costume and Inflatable Thunderfury.
12th Anniversary started the tradition of adding 200 Timewarped Badges.
13th Anniversary added the Dragons of Nightmare, other World Bosses, and the Sunglass Mog.
14th Anniversay added Overtuned Corgi Goggles.
16th Anniversary added a Cloak Transmog.
17th Anniversary added a mount, a new world boss, which has unique transmog drops as well.
10 and 15 had major events as they aren’t “minor” anniversaries, as you said.
The fact this year has nothing is honestly a little insulting. Even a cloak mog like 16th or adding something new to the Anniversary Gift would’ve been better than nothing.
If Blizzard had the resources to create not one, but two new mounts for their subscription plans, (and tease the Lunar New Year things while they were at it) they had enough services to make something. Literally anything.
The fact this is right before the Dragonflight launch makes it even worse. This is when people are coming back to the game - this is the prime anniversary to add something.
A handful of pharmaceutical grade caffeine is bad for you but a couple cups of java on a cold winter morning won’t hurt a bit. Blonde sweet and strong enough to break my humerus arm wrestling coffee.
Except I’m not. Because you apparently can’t comprehend the words “usually” or “much of anything.” If you don’t understand that “usually” means “not all the time” and that “much of anything” means “nothing of large significance,” then that’s on you, not me. Nothing I said was incorrect.
You want me to rephrase it so you understand it better? Okay.
Blizz doesn’t all the time give things of large significance for minor anniversaries.
Bro, Maizou just posted a list showing that Blizzard usually DO have rewards for “minor anniversaries.” You’re just too stubborn to get off that horse.
Turns out the only reason why the 10th and 20th are special is because we do our math in the base 10. And the only reason for that is that we have 10 fingers.
Arithmetic would be much easier if we used the base 8 or the base 16. At least we would get along with computers a lot better.
