People arguing this is fun or engaging are weirding me out; do you just like to argue?
3+ months to become viable is too long, it negates the desire to even bother before Slands and that is NOT a good thing for anyone, the players or Blizzards sub numbers.
They cores should be farmable via visions, it would still require plenty of time and have a soft cap this way, but dedicated players or people who want to main swap completely would be able to do so realistically. Personally, I’ve been debating gearing my rogue or enh shaman but everytime I look at the essences and cloak…I change my mind. And I’m far from a casual player.
What? Do you actually think this stuff is going to be implemented?
Yeah it has nothing to do with the massive focus on garisons, weird af story and massive class pruning and everything to do with easy catch up
So it started with less and ended with less. Sounds awesome. People were so excited for endless grinds that they came in droves and stuck around because those grinds were so awesome
Again you pick and choose when it suits you. WoD was bad because of the story, not because of lack of content now? Spoiler, easy catch-up means lack of content.
Keep adding your emojis though. Gotta distract from the parts where you contradict yourself.
But trying to correlate specific game design features based on subs isn’t really that useful of a task.
TBC has the sharpest rise in subs. Maybe it was because single difficulty raids, single lockout systems, no transmog, and extensive per character attunements were the reason?
Or maybe it’s blood elves?
Or arena?
Or none of the above? Or all of the above?
Did MoP lose subs because of too much homogenization? Monks? Dailies? Story?
You can make arguments for basically anything.
Back to TBC and it having the most massive spike of subs over a whole expansion ever. How much effort would you need to put into a fresh 70 to get him caught up to your main raiding Sunwell?
That is a horrible analogy. First of all, the legendary cloak came out this year in January. Second, it is 13 weeks starting today (not counting the time to rank the cloak to 15 first).
So, they haven’t played for 13 weeks, 3 full months, and a person who has played every week has an 8-12% power advantage over them. 13 weeks, over 3 months. It is beyond acceptable.
To an extent this is true. Still though if an expansion has crap subs clearly something is wrong. You can also compare it to other expansions to come up with some hypotheses. Yes they are all hypotheses but there is still value in them. Better believe blizzard makes hypotheses, why do you think they introduced infinite grinds? Do you think they’re looking at bfa and contemplating what impact they had?
Quite a bit… Still a more user friendly than most other MMOs that ever existed before it. There’s a reason why wrath continued the trend towards catch up and ease of entry while maintaining the sub increase. Didn’t start to drop off until there was another drought and they introduced Ruby sanctum which was meh.
Lol dude mop was pretty successful until the endless siege regardless, both still more popular at the end of their massive droughts than bfa was one month into it. Keep pretending like bfas failures are anything but its own.
15 seconds googling “wow sub graph” shows MoP had a relatively steady decrease all expansion long not a drop at the end.
It actually had a final uptick value right before WoD hit.
But I get it. It’s a game of rationalizing why we think aspects we like or dislike are helping or hurting the game and guessing about it’s impact on the playerbase at large while ignoring any macro outside of game factors.
There should be a way to get cores. Maybe not all the cores to catch up in one week, but as you stated the further weeks we get into the longer it takes alts or new players to catch up. My shaman is vastly weeker than my other characters because he’s got 20 less corruptions resist. That’s huge
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regardless, both still more popular at the end of their massive droughts than bfa was one month into it. Keep pretending like bfas failures are anything but its own.