I know during Shadowlands a ton of creators and fans moved on and went to other MMOs and games, it almost became the “cool” thing to hate on WoW and WoW players in general.
With Dragonflight releasing soon and the hype and momentum building, do you think it has what it takes to catapult WoW back into the #1 MMO spot?
Wow’s got a really bad rep specially with SL , and other things that happened with Blizz cant take that back… Only people that might comeback are the people who left in SL but to be #1 which right now is FFXIV… wows gonna need alot of numbers
For some reason I thought Lost Ark was #1
no lost ark is #7 FF is #1
FF14 will lose that spot that game messed with the wrong game to claim that spot. And surprisingly FF14 can never outpace World of Warcraft in sells.
Has anyone here seen this? Because I haven’t. There was hype over Cyberpunk. There was hype over No Man’s Sky etc. I’m not seeing any hype over the release of DF.
I mean, there’s those of us who already play wow who mostly bought the new expac for the pre-order bonuses. The expac itself is like…oh? Neat I guess.
WoW will likely never get back to what it was during Wrath.
players get older, lose interest and so on.
Also new players have different interests in Games as older players have.
thats why “new” systems usually seems like a jumbled mess
No.
wow is nearly 2 decades old and it’s frankly starting to show its age. It will never be on top again, but it will always be relevant at least. wow basically brought the genre into the mainstream and because of that it’ll basically never die until the devs themselves pull the plug.
When people leave a game for what they consider to be a good reason, they aren’t coming back anytime soon.
A lot of players left in Shadowlands, and before that BfA, Cata, etc. It is a mistake to assume that if you botch things badly enough to drive away too many players, it will be easy to bring them back.
I still have no idea what the story is for this new xpac. The dragons wake up and now what?
basically the Dragon Isles wake up and with them a lot of problems…
and old enemies…
the usual trope
With the current team, I don’t see it.
Nope
NEXT!!!1
There is a lot of new blood in the team.
I guess it could be. (lets just hope there won’t ever be Fortnite dances in WoW …)
But in the end it will never be as good as the first 3 stages of the game.
Idk…using creators as a metric seems strange, since WoW is still the dominant MMO on twitch. There was a time when FFXIV would occasionally get better viewership (conveniently around the same time this forum was getting spammed with “omg FF is so good!” threads), and then the next patch or classic raid/expansion would come out and promptly put an end to that.
Season 1 will be a very critical time for Blizzard. Did they learn from SL? Are they still arrogant and forcing unwanted content down their players throat? If it doesn’t bring back everyone, then they’ll sure be keeping an eye on it to see if it’s worth coming back to.
I myself am on the fence. I recently came back to level up my DH to 60. Gonna check out Rated SS this Tuesday. My sub ends before launch of DF, so I’ll probably watch how DF plays out for a few months then I’ll decide if I want to play. I’m sure many feel the same way.
It will, in the minds of most wow players.
I am already seeing a slow drift back into my old guild as we draw closer to the prepatch. I expect once it launches there will be more, and even more once the expac goes live.
Will the numbers be huge? Who knows. All I will be able to judge by is whether my guild goes from ghost town to hyper again. That will be my best yardstick.
nah game is too old. a botox injection on a 80 years old lady can only do so much 