3 months after launch it will be dead unless sod flops
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Exactly, just trust us with no verification. Most people that donāt want cata, just want wrath era servers.
Plus, they are accelerating the timeline with cata. Flat out cash grab to get to the āclassicā style cash grabā¦lol
I tend not to disbelief these kinds of statements because believing itās fake means that the entire team who analyzed the answers are all in on the lie and everyone will keep quiet. It pretty much never goes that way, someone always blows the whistle.
Not to say they donāt massage the data because they arenāt giving any real specifics so they can ultimately phrase it how they want and as long as its within the realm of realism not a lot you can argue with.
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Actually it was just greed, they could have just free offered transfers for the low population servers to the mega ones and cut those costs (that some of the people on here thinks is breaking this multi billion dollar company).
Guess non-disclosure agreements are not used at blizzard thenā¦
Still can have Wrath servers. If people want to go into the next expansion thatās fine, but people having been holding out for Wrath since the announcement of the original relaunch. Just make TBC/Wrath servers, costs them next to nothing to keep a few servers rolling and people will still be subbed playing whatever expansion thatās out.
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If Cata was good why did most of the WOTLK playbase quit during it the first time then?
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Cata is good because most of the wotlk player base didnāt quit it during the first time. About 20% quit.
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Cata would only have 3 phases basically.
Thats 4 month phases since they said it would last a year.
I quit because i joined the military and couldnt play anymore.
But if you look at subs i quit because cata sucked according to all of you.
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Guess I donāt really know for sure, but I doubt NDAs are used to keep employees silenced on reporting data. Iāve seen NDAs be used on people outside the company getting to see what cool new things they are developing that they arenāt ready to fully unveil.
And anyways historically speaking people still blow the whistle even if they are legally bound. It just takes one person to decide they are morally obligated over a piece of paper.
Only slightly related but a good example is the player base of the game War Thunder and the constant leaking/trading of actual military design specs to either get in game items or prove a point about balance.
Sometimes itās just for the ego boost. Person x tells reporter y āLook what I know.ā Reporter y says, āAn undisclosed source revealed thatā¦ā
Literally the start of the downfall of this game. They bled subs by the time CATA was at its end they probably lost half of their subscribers. I know, I lived it and I wonāt be victimized again.
Cata was at 10m subs by the end, which is definitely not half of the gameās peak subs in Wrath.
lol yikes.
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Go outside.
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You poor poor thing.
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What even is consensus reality anymore?
Blizz did a market survey and saw that cata would most certainly make money. So we get it. Thats what huge corporations do.
If you want a product with real heart you probably have to take these huge sums of money off the table. But whatever. Dont yuck my yum. Ill have fun with cata for the 2nd time
A thought: WoW saw a massive boost in players in Wrath. One can assume a not insignificant number of those new players were high schoolers with money from their first jobs to burn. With that in mind, around Cataclysm is where many of them would be going off to college, or joining the military, or looking to make a full time career somewhere with no free time to play WoW anymore
Thatās more or less what it was like for me, anyway