Found a site that has archived threads, even still tracks them today on these forums.
Everyone is saying “WoW is dead” or “lul WoW sucks” lately. Even wish that Blizzard would return to its TBC, WotLK, MoP era times where they were the “golden age” of WoW
Turns out these said players of the past still say doom and gloom like today’s threads.
It’s just inevitable. Of a game that has multi-millions of people there will always be doomsayers.
WoD doomsaying was super high and during a relative content drought like now the same sentiments rise up. Nothing of any significance but it is what it is.
You start dying as soon as your born. For some things like people the process of dying can date as long as decades or as short as minutes, even seconds. For games and products it can be much the same, though is usually much shorter.
Most “WoW is dying because ____” threads have a semblance of truth to them. Typically whatever the complaint or new game or whatever other “cause” is given is contributing to the “death” of wow. However these threads are usually taken to the extreme, acting like the subject is going to cause some sudden and immediate end to WoW.
WoW will always have a dedicated player base no matter what they do, just like EQ still does, until they shut down their own servers.
But it’s not the game it once was. Everyone that built it is gone. The people telling the stories now aren’t the same storytellers as before. To me, its soul is dying and has been for a while.
I quit retail WoW. Quitting doesn’t mean forever, it just means that you’re not playing the game. I’m not playing the game. I was playing classic, but I canceled those subs as well.
Classic is a fun side game. A good walk down memory lane, reliving the glory days of this once-great game. But it’s not enough to be my “main MMO”.
IDK. People come and go, but they’re not bringing in new players nearly as often as they’re losing old ones. I think with all the changes to multiboxing we’ll see that with the next expansion, too.
But it’s all moot anyway. This game will exist with or without me. I just wish they made a game that still appealed to me.
Except back then, subs were rising to astronomical levels.
Now, subs have been plummeting into a death spiral.
Context matters. People who said the game was dying from Classic to MoP were being idiotic, people who said it in WoD, BFA or now are just speaking the truth.
Don’t take my word for it, look at the charts made before they stopped giving out sub data. The decline after Wrath’s peak was steady before WoD caused a super sharp spike downwards.
I have seen so many “wow is dead/dying” threads over the years that I started numbering them for a while. Eventually I gave up. There were just too many.
In almost every case it means “this player dislikes the new WoW”. That’s fine. Only egotistical maniacs reverse that, thinking “since I am the only person that matters, that means THE GAME is bad”.
There seem to be a lot of egotistical maniacs in this forum.
With more and more peeps from wow trying FFXIV now Blizzard will either step up and thrive under the pressure or continue their downward spiral into players getting poached by other MMOS. It won’t be dead, but it most certainly isn’t going to get better if blizzard doesn’t do something by at least the end of SL.
In what bizarre fantasy world is “fewer subs” the same as “the game is dying”? Nowhere, that’s where. Especially when the new sub count is still larger than any other MMO. If you’re ahead of ALL your competitors, you aren’t “dying”. Where does it say “you must continue to grow, or you die”? Nowhere.
Saying “dying” is not “speaking the truth”. “Dead” means out of business, ended, stopped. “Dying” means “very soon to be out of business”, where “very soon” means months, not decades.
There is ZERO evidence that WoW will end in the next year. So “dying” is false.
For added amusement I like to use websites like simplearmory.com and check out players who claim to have stopped playing. 9 out of 10 times they have been playing the whole time. lol
100%.
Players seem to think that “this time the doom and gloom really means something”, they act like players raging is something new. It’s hilarious.
Every single current expansion and every single current patch is always the worst thing ever for WoW.
Was that because the game got worse or because the epic story finished?
I’m pretty sure the game was gona decline after Wrath no matter what blizzard did. I know friends at the time were hyped as hell over WotLK cause its the Lich King. Nothing to do with the game, but they were big into Warcrafts Story and so they played because it was the Lich King and didn’t really care for the story after, but how do you follow on from something so epic and not expect to lose people?
