Wotlk was more popular. Besides we’ve had enough of illidan lately. The last expansion was about him.
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no i want to play tbc enhancement shamans i cant wait for it.
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The only argument against this is OP paladins.
No.
10 chars
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There were 3 million players added in TBC.
There were 1 million players added in Wrath.
Your math does not add up.
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Tell 'em girl! BC had the crappiest story, nix that, it had no story, it tied up some of its convoluted loose ends with SWP in 2.4 by reconciling the blood elves and draenei after realizing the native blood elves =/= Outlands blood elves and kind of threw KJ in there even though it was all a blur but we knew he’d return when Blizz was ready to do the BC story arc justice.
Gameplay wise? I might be alone but I loved joining in 2.1 when I did and all the max level 70’s had their awesome glowing neon armor, then in Wrath the armor made us all look like scandinavian viking cavemen, like my god Wrath gear was unanimously hideous
The story of TBC was better than vanilla’s story. It had more cohesion and focus.
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True. If I could summarize BC’s story. It’d just be like, hey here’s what life was like for the Sons of Lothar after decades of being trapped behind the portal, see how all the races adapted to this new wrecked world. Horde’s side? Look how corrupted and evil your cousins are.
You intend to play a DK during Wrath huh?
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Yup, going blood, soloing everything.
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I’d argue it does add up if I were him. You’re basically saying if vanilla had 1mil subs, TBC had 4. Then WotLK had 5.
5>4
TBC had more growth for an expansion, but you can’t really argue it wasn’t played by more people, according to yourself after all.
Vanilla added 8 million players.
Your math doesn’t add up either.
The end of Wrath saw 12 million ACTIVE subs before the decline started.
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Extremely cold take, absolutely not. I want to meet Garrosh Hellscream for the first time.
In the game’s early years rising subs was a matter of sub retention vs new subscribers. I.E. During Classic and TBC new subscribers vastly outpaced lost subscribers.
Wrath had stagnant sub growth compared with TBC either due to one or both:
- Less subscribers joining the game
- More subscribers leaving the game
Either way it indicates the game is less popular, though we can’t draw conclusions why it was less popular (i.e. Wrath could be more beloved, but had lost cultural relevance due to the game’s age).
We can’t use peak subscribers as a measure of popularity because it isn’t a relevant statistic. Sub retention is more indicative of popularity. WoD after all had a peak subscriber count of 10.5 million, but no one could reasonably argue it was more popular than TBC considering it lost 5 million subscribers before a year had passed.
If Blizz is planning on doing anything beyond just Vanilla, they will definitely do TBC. It was insanely popular, and I can’t wait for it.
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Nah. I want to relive the TBC content while it is relevant before WotLK.
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Wrath grew and held subs. Just because there isn’t growth doesn’t mean it was less popular.
eww i hate wotlk. classic and tbc for me i wont touch that crap called wrath
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Wait. I thought TBC peaked at around 7 million subs and wrath peaked around 12 million.
I thought TBC peaked at around 7 million subs
TBC’s final sub report before Wrath released was 11 million. It’s previous two reports prior to that one were 10.9 and 10.7 million respectively.
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