Yeah i read that thread.
-It states that they sold 3.4 million copies in a single day, it doesnât state anywhere on the internet that they only sold that many.
-It also assumes 50% of the playerbase uses weak auraâs.Which is massively unfeasible.
Heelsvsbabyfaces guesstimate is probably closer @ 1.9 million simply due to the fact itâs based off server stats, not an addon.
Thereâs an entire megathread about it in general discussion.
Really isnât that hard to use your brain⌠on one hand we recently got a leak that it was at 2 million on another BFA only sold 3.7 million copies so it dwindling down to 2 million lines up pretty well.
i was speaking logically but that still makes no sense to me.
why do people feel that the only way to make the game modern (which is opposite of the term authentic), is to use another game that isnt even remotely similar in comparison, as an example?
this is starting to get as toxic as the helf debate. ignoring blizzardâs own statements on it, being toxic toward anyone who echoâs those statements and then to top it off, the constant condescending attitude that- because they are retail players> automatically get what they want.
blizzard really needs to crack down on this toxicity. they have GD to talk about modern wow, changes etc- doesnt need to be brought over here where their (blizzard) design philosophy is key to its success.
its like walking into a gym where you KNOW 99% of them work out and then being a scumbag toward them about that fact and encouraging them to be fat and lazy.
Im just tired of people screaming toxic vs. Anything that disagrees or criticizes them.
You can be playing this game, asking why people are fighting on roads and youâll have that rando crying that your question was toxic⌠it has gotten really old how people throw the phrase around wily nily.
I donât know about âeasily overtaking itâ but if it overtakes it or even vaguely competes with it sub wise I would consider that really impressive for a 15 year old game.
Theyâve always had a strong legal leg to stand on, thatâs why servers were never based in countries that were easy for them to take legal action against. The private servers that exist now are not going away just because of a âstronger leg to stand onâ legally.
Blizzard Entertainment has 37 million monthly active users, according to a recent quarterly report. Thatâs 37 million people playing games on the launcher, and I donât know if that even includes the people playing CoD on the Bnet launcher, because CoD is an Activision game and those players probably arenât considered Blizzard monthly active users.
If only 1% of the people playing Blizzard games on bnet decide to check out classic at launch, it will have at least ~370,000 players at launch. Basically youâre saying that only just over .25%, or only slightly more than 1 out of every 400 people using the launcher, will try classic at release, and thatâs not even considering any new players or players coming back. Yeah, sorry, youâre way off base, and Iâd really love to hear your logic.
Also, OP, if that tool scraping data off of NA and EU indicates 2 million, you need to understand that doesnât include China, South Korea, South America, and probably Russia + several other countries. Just the addition of China alone will more than double that figure, and the other countries will add another million or more.
Those âserver statsâ are in turn based on checking auction houses, then just looking at the guilds those auction house posters are in. Itâs not exactly collecting 100% accurate data, nor does it track how many people are subscribed just how many people are active, posting on the AH or are in a guild with someone who is.
My âout of my nether regionsâ educated guesstimate tells me that retail North America subs are sub 1 mil, or right at. The rest of this post, furthermore is even further outflow from my backside reasoning.
I think classic will surpass that very easily at first. I donât care what game youâre playing, what genre you prefer, or that itâs 2019 and the old WoW graphics suck. Vanilla checks a lot of boxes for people in general, whether they know it or not. Thatâs why you had a MASSIVE amount of people that never even had played a proper MMORPG before and somehow landed in old WoW. Thatâs what happened to me.
Thatâs not going to change. The way Vanilla was built, at its foundation, really reallyâŚREALLY draws people in. Completely different from retailâŚand retail is not even built that way.
My point is, I think Classic will easily surpass retail for âactive people playingâ, but as the months pass it will probably trade blows back and forth with retail. It will probably stay high and stable for a few years with a slow and steady decline but teeter out with a solid plateau after 2 y, because of the dedicated fan base.
My prediction is, you wonât have a problem for the first few years of feeling like the game is anything less than vibrant. After? Who knowsâŚthereâs only so many geared , veteran, 60s that can help glue your PUG or small guild together for raid runs before they move on.
except the difference is- that there is a HUGE sign that says people are fighting on roads and it can even explain in detail as to WHY.
the question is toxic when it purposely is made to flame.
let me explain it like this; blizzard has an entire panel at blizzcon, answering all the questions that people STILL ask- giving definite answers. they also have a Q&A, answering all the questions that people STILL ask
but pointing the above fact out- makes us hostile etc etc
aka they are asked to purposely flame people aka be toxic.
is flying going to be in classic? (as if that isnt obvious, since it didnt get included until BC aka purposely being asinine) gets told NO, because blizzard said so at blizzcon rages on like a flaming monkey about âbeing hostile, negative, not open mindedâ
so is telling the truth, toxic or your blatant trolling and attitude?
guess which one the TOS determines is trolling?
As much as I love Classic, I donât think itâll overtake current wowâŚand Iâve been unsubbed for a few months now. I think classic will start with 1-2mil players and the number will dwindle down to 200-300k across all servers ( 500k max) , these will be the people that actually enjoy the game and will stick around for a while probably. Ofc, I hope Iâm wrong and that it ends up being much higher than I predict, but Iâm just trying to be realistic here. People are allowed to enjoy whatever game they want, but tbh weâre probably a minority here. No matter how bad we think the current game is.
I didnât need to quote your wall of text to make a point. You called for Blizzard to crack down on toxicity and it took me ten seconds to find a post from you that Blizzard would definitely consider toxic and against the CoC.