It was a derogatory term used to describe people who started in Wrath and wanted/where used to the game being dumbed down and easy mode with faceroll leveling and dungeons.
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This is such a garbage statistic only a white knight would post it.
BFA had 6 months of online pre-sale to get to that figure.
BC and Wrath people had to physically go to a store or several, if it was sold out to buy a copy on the day of release.
Its hardly comparable.
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it was the fastest selling expansion
not the best selling
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Yeah then we play classic later and see Ulduar and ICC was more difficult than any Vanilla raidâŚ
I imagine a better indicator would be how many people buy Shadowlands. Those are the people who probably stuck around through BFA or at least spent time at 120.
If SL sells the same 3ish million copies that BfA, Legion and Warlords didâŚthen you could probably say that BFA was objectively as successful as the others.
Of course, you donât need SL to play Classic. Thatâs gonna be a new consideration this time around.
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Arenât token prices bound to go up regardless of whether the expac is good or not?
Legion and WoD have very similar numbers and had pre-sales. Are we going to move the goalposts all the way back to the âbuy-a-physical-copyâ or it doesnât count model?
I get it, anyone who says something contrary (or in my case, based on actual stats) must be a white knight. Youâre pathetic.
Successful launch sales, sure. Successful in retaining players and their image of BFA, most likely not.
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Depends on what you mean by successful. It made money. It didnât kill the game. Most of it was fun, even if a lot of the systems werenât. I donât think it was a massive success, but I sure wouldnât call it a complete failure either.
But since no one really has any data on the retaining front, itâs all noise that serves someoneâs white knight/petulant hater agenda and is therefore irrelevant.
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Itâs irrelevant because itâs showing the sales of an expansion before anyone even had a chance to play it. How can you use that to measure the success of a product is designed to maintain retention? Itâs an interesting statistic, but it really only shows that people were excited to try it.
Money wise sure, they made a killing cutting corners and rehashing Legion features.
Content wise, it was a s*** show and continued to trample on the faith customers have in this franchise.
WoD was a better expansion in my mind. At least classes were fun, alt friendly, reasonably balanced, didnât have artifact/essence bs or crazy titanforging
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You chose to compare it to prior xpacs that were only sold in retail outlets and did not have a pre-sale option.
To say it was a success compared to the most successful years of the games history is quite frankly delusional. BFA tanked within 3 months of release.
Both of those xpacs continued to grow and retain beyond their opening sales date.
Good job falling for the white knight semantics of their sales pitchâŚ
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Well, I kept playing and subbing every month so it was successful in keeping me around. However, there were a lot more problems with this expansion compared to Legion and I plan on no longer playing in Shadowlands if it ends up with the same problems as it did this time around.
Yeah BFA was a total cash grab. Unfinished and broken release with a 1+ year long final patch of recycled zones/content.
There were some aspects that were fun this xpac but overall its more ghetto than WoD.
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WoD may have a word with you on that.
If you could see through your rage and read what I typed, âBy some metrics, BFA was the most successful day 1 expansion launch in WoW history.â Youâre just here to preach and belittle people.
The post is a week old and youâre just trying to be a tough guy. If Iâm a white knight youâre just a coward. Enjoy.
Just because its a week old doesnt make it less ridiculous.
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Its literally statistics dude. If my numbers bother you, make up your own.