Look, I know I know, another one of these, “the game is dying” posts. And I’m not saying it is yet, (or maybe it is, I don’t know) but, this is probably the first time I legitimately feel like it could be approaching that. Kinda sad to think about, but I just feel like nothing they offer is really doing all that well. SoD is definitely losing players… idk how Cata is doing. But this prepatch in retail just really shows what is to come imo with the new expansion. I am not at all excited for anything coming from Blizzard anymore. What do you all think?
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after prepatch launched all my add ons disappeared and I cant find a single option to re enable them after my curse forge update, so Yea, I’m pretty angry.
I think it’s perfectly normal to get bored of something.
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Players discovered that Vanilla WoW was actually terrible outside of the community of friends we had while playing the game. Take away the community, and the game itself is just kind of a nightmare to play.
Then again, the modern “Vanilla” community is what ultimately optimized the fun out of it.
Retail WoW is Blizzard’s best WoW, though that wasn’t necessarily true at the time of Shadowlands.
Ah yes, WoW is dying post 5,723,420. Put a dollar in the jar. Taps the ‘WoW is dying since 2004’ jar 
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Things seem to be picking up on my Era server.
I regret nothing.
I think you’re being silly.
Every classic gimmick loses players over time. It’s the nature of classic. That’s why they keep doing gimmicks. We had regular classic era, then season of mastery, then hardcore, now SoD. Wonder what the next gimmick to revive classic will be? 
Idk either, but given it’s past the point most people think of when they think “classic” and just the fact that it’s a classic WoW release, surely about the same or worse than the previous couple iterations. It seems to be something that entertains a smaller loyal fanbase, but the larger crowd starts it and then loses steam and goes away after a bit.
Point being, Classic is a poor way to judge WoW’s performance. It’s too reliant on new gimmicks to revive interest for a mode that’s meant to be “how things used to be”.
The current version of the prepatch has 2 issues.
- Arthas causes server lag when too many players are present.
- Low Level scaling isn’t compensating enough.
#1 is annoying but hardly telling of anything in TWW. They ported Lich King raid mechanics to the open world and slapped 50 adds into the mix and it didn’t turn out well. Oh well, it goes away in a couple weeks.
#2 is, again, annoying. But low level scaling isn’t really a part of expansion-specific content, so it has 0 chance of mattering or still being “wrong” in TWW content, as that will all be level 70-80.
It launched poorly, but the biggest issues with it were corrected based on feedback within like 2 days.
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there to be any issues with the prepatch is pretty silly. especially with I think it’s pretty crucial for them to try and win some players back
our guild is going strong and fine, I think it’s your outlook on the game is changing and it’s dying to you. So that’s ok, people change. Good luck in your endeavors.
maybe so. i’m glad you’re having fun still
Well, for wow players to be as divided as we are among different versions of wow, I think it’s going pretty good!
Honestly while I think the game is in a bad state, I don’t see it dying any time soon. It will continue till Blizz makes the decision to shut it down.
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According to the forums, the game has been dying since before it even came out.
Eventually it will happen just because nothing lasts forever and I’m sure the day that happens the forums will act like they totally called it.
I think people get caught up in feeling like the current version of WoW isn’t something they’re currently enjoying, and then you can easily go online and find a bunch of people who share your opinion no matter what that opinion is, so they think that the game must be in a bad way because there are all these complains about it.
Not to say the game doesn’t have its’ share of problems(or that I don’t have my concerns about TWW), but if it survived Shadowlands it’s going to survive The War Within. The game still has a long way to fall before we start talking about it genuinely dying.
As for SoD, Classic WoW did really well but we have yet to see any sort of gimmick season have much staying power in that community right now. Hardcore Classic probably did the best.
I think the MMO genre is in a bad spot in general. The new FF14 x-pack isn’t very popular, Bungie just had a huge round of layoffs and announced that wont be anymore Destiny2 x-packs…and WoW is just WoW.
It will be interesting to see how it all works out, especially since there isn’t anything big coming out in the near future.
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Not sure how you figure that when they just had their largest launch since ARR and the content has been praised across the board. The story is rough but everything else is great.
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99% of the appeal of FF14 is the story. So when that’s bad…everything is bad. I have also seen a lot of criticism because the new x-pack lacks innovation, which makes it boring
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The people that only care about the story do the same thing every expansion, they play through the story and leave, that isn’t new. The content after is what people stick around for and thats getting praise pretty much everywhere.
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I don’t play MMOs. I play World of Warcraft 
True.
Logging into retail after a long time not playing is like logging into mobile trash. Menus showing what to do, what you missed, and advertisements for what to buy lol.