You gotta laugh. Some people just exist to be offended. I’d call it trolling, but it’s not even that creative. It’s just sad.
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Nah, when Classic arrives I’ll be enjoying pseudo-Vanilla with everyone else.
You are dreaming if you think a niche game like Vanilla is going to crush anything. LOL
Couple hundred thousand stable maybe, with some fluctuations as there are retail content droughts.
To be clear, I don’t feel that either version of the content of the SAME game is superior to the other, though each have better points. But for you to think that Classic is going to return to the numbers Vanilla had is completely crazy, and you might want to get looked at for that. LOL
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Blizzard dug this pit, and now they squander in it. Classic will be out soon and people will play it. Blizzard smeared poop on the PVP, RP, and overall dedicated communities for years with gross mistakes and mass amounts of shilling of microx instead of creating quality content to consume.
They should have had Vanilla servers launching during Cata and continued on having all expacs active so people could play what they liked.
Any fingers pointed elseware are that of idiots.
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I guess they are doing it upon themselves, but it’s kind of sad since some of those could become quite big streamers once we get to the real cheese instead of the rotten soy cheese.
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That’s a great point. If they’d stop streaming the fake, copyright breaking garbage servers with terrible people and waited for actual Classic, they might still have their accounts, and gain followers.
couple thousands? maybe. Last time I counted. 7 million left After Cataclysm which for obvious reasons they didn’t like. Plus the people whos never played vanilla and the ones from retail who wants to give it a try. I bet its more than 5-7 millions at launch. Then it “may” may drop some. Big streamers are going for it. Asmongold, shroud, Ninja. Surprised shroud knows about vanilla he’s always loved playing shooter games and he is a beast at it
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5-7 Million?
LMAO… What are you smoking dude?
Activision Stockholm Syndrome everyone.
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its interesting since some private servers, like the everquest emulator, project 1999, is actually approved by the company that currently owns everquest (daybreak games), yet it doesnt have a shop or sell the game itself (the titanium version which hasn’t been for sale in stores for a decade and can only be found on e-bay and such). it doesnt charge for the game and neither does daybreak games. instead daybreak games has progression server versions that start at original game (everquests version of vanilla) and runs thru 3 or more expacs before wiping and starting over
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If these guys will be playing it consistently classic could really blow up.
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If people would both rather play and rather watch private server content than live retail because Blizzard-Activision has run the franchise so far into the ground it’s hit lava then it becomes a mixture of ironic and pitiful that they would tenaciously hound the streamers of said content.
That being said, I’ve been streaming Pserver content on and off for 6 years and never been actioned. My measly 12 - 40 viewers aren’t enough to care about, evidently.
Also, the the egregious amount of half-clothed young women doing “IRL chat” and “Just Dance” streams for money, amounting essentially to a Live-Jasmine ‘lite’ are far more damaging to both the brand and image of the Twitch platform than some people streaming pservers.
Shut up.
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Why do you seem so shocked about an old game being better than a newer version? . History keeps repeating itself…
Are you aware of the population drop? It isn’t 5-7, it was a million sink from cata.
Wotlk peaked at 12 Million
Cata dropped to like 9 million
Mop dropped below 7 million
and wod, legion, and bfa went even lower.
At the end of Vanilla, TBC, and WOTLK population was stable. At the end of Cata, and every expansion past it there was a huge sink at the end. The game had been spiraling downward since Cata. I still think the population spike to 10 million on WOD launch was a shear lie of numbers to this day.
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it’s not just damaging to Twitch or a brand. It’s damaging to socieity. It’s complete degenerate garbage that has been normalized by the (((entertainment industry))) for decades and now that platforms exists for the content to be easily distributed it’s everywhere.
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I think you got those numbers a little buffed up. Wrath of the Lich King peaked at 12.5 million. Cataclysm dropped 5-7 million players, it came all over the news. I wasn’t even playing at that time. As of now it is “estimated” since blizzard doesn’t share any more player count data that BFA is at 1.5 to 2 million
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Blizzard has cheesed numbers in the past and i don’t doubt that they padded the released numbers. It wasnt’ 7 million though. They didn’t lose over 50% of players. Maybe by late MOP, but not Cata.
Not being negative but he is fairly accurate in my personal opinion. But that’s my opinion. The numbers could be anywhere.
There’s a large sum of people who will not touch private servers whatsoever for various and some obvious reasons. There’s also a large sum of those who play current and are curious. Add in a massive amount of silent players, as I know myself have multiple friends who will return for Classic but they are silent otherwise. Add in major streamers, who knows?
We might see it balloon initially and then go down after curiosity subsides but then go up again as popularity and word gets out more. It’s really all guesswork at the moment.
I really don’t see it going under 1mill though.
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that could be true, but at least 50% of the pop was lost back then, then 20% more after BFA
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The game is under 2 million at this point I would say.
If you want to look at PvP participation particularly…
In S8 of Wrath of the Lich King there were ~1mil accounts that had reached 1000 rating or higher. This is evident due to the nature of “Gladiator” titles being percentile based.
The first season of BfA had 44,000 accounts above 1000 rating.
In 10 years that’s a 96% drop in participation. Ninety-freaking-six percent of rated PvPers quit the game…
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