I’m talking about the number of guilds and estimating the number of human beings and their accounts clearing the raid per guild. What are you going on about?
Actually, I didn’t even mention numbers of players in that particular post you quoted. What you’re saying is completely irrelevant; the number of guilds clearing the content is roughly the same as it was when the game had 5.6 million subs.
It has everything to do with it. Alts doesn’t =/= it is a new person clearing the raid too.
You need 10-30 player to actually clear the raid? So regardless of the number of alts in the guild, there’s at least 10-30 real players in the guild. So number of alts doesn’t have anything to do with anything, how is that hard to understand?
Assuming people don’t also have alts in other guilds or there are guilds full of alts as well.
Again, what does that have to do with anything? Make a point or just stop.
This is still going?? I was at work all day. Did we get any real proof to support this claim or that there ever was a “Blizzard employee”? No? I didn’t think so.
I wonder if the OP knows that the overwhelming majority of the WoW player base has always been from the Asian market.
Bam nailed it! 100%! Team two can lick a fat one until they decide to listen.
"An unnamed source * reports this as accurate, therefore it is true."
*- Please note unnamed means he might very well be the writers imaginary friend.
Sums the thread up well enough.
Well, my grandmother is Chinese so I guess I contribute to that stat…
FYI Team 2 has been the label for WoW’s team since it’s inception. Team 2 has ALWAYS worked on WoW.
Hey OP.
You realize China is the second largest country in the World?
But please, not all of these subs are gold farmers.
/slap
GO TO BED.
Honestly, besides the wow reddit and forums, out in the gamer world wow isnt super popular anymore.
I honestly think destiny 2 has more players than wow especially in the US
Point is, nobody knows the true numbers of active subs, worldwide (Except for Blizzard). And as for guilds, yes, could’ve been 14k guilds that completed BoD Heroic, doesn’t mean that guilds doesn’t have alts in them running them or there is alt guilds.
Since we are stuck in this cycle of good, bad, good bad expansions, i assume that the teams alternate between expansions, which means Team A is going to do the next expansion while Team B is responsible for BfA.
B - BfA - Bad
A - Legion - Good
B - WoD - Bad
A - MoP - Good
B - Cata - Bad
That literally means nothing. The same could be said for the 17,800 that cleared Heroic Hellfire Citadel, it means nothing.
There’s 23% fewer guilds clearing content in BfA in 6 months, than there was in WoD in 14 months when we knew the subs were around 5 million. My point is, there’s no logical path to believing BfA is dead and under 1 or 2 million subs.
Sorry but I am willing to assume that Blizzard has some rudimentary skill at project management. There is very little chance that Blizzard would not have two teams, minimum, one for development of the next expansion and one for continued development/maintenance of the current expansion.
The is no wrath like that of a developer who is focused on a task and is constantly interrupted to switch to fix a bug or implement a quick new feature. We are not as bad as singers who consider themselves artists, but we can still have our moments.
You do realize that China has their own dedicated servers. Because the WoW game in China has been altered to meet government imposed community standards. The most common one pointed out being the forsaken do not have bones sticking out.
As such you wouldn’t see any Chinese players. And you don’t see the Chinese servers in the realm list. So, we have no proof of how many active players are in China.
games like Madden and Cod do something similar, i guess it makes sense that wow does too. legion and mop were good, hopefully that means we are due again
Even if this is true, what am I supposed to take away from this? They have way more people than NA, so per capita more people probably still play here. And even if they don’t, so what? They’re people too. If that’s truly the case it just proves Asian players enjoy grinds more than NA/EU people, which has been a stereotype for years. Maybe the takeaway is make the game less grindy for the NA/EU audience? If this is even some kind of “real muricans play classic!” type post I’m gonna die laughing, perhaps literally.
So a Twitch streamer has some guy who claims to work for Blizzard, possibly parking cars at Blizzcon, says some things and we’re supposed to believe it’s a credible source?