Didn’t Overwatch outstrip WoW almost immediately?
“Right now” are the key words there. It’s temporary, and won’t last long. I doubt it’ll last another year. Look at EA? Still plugging along. And with no similar outcry about FIFA and such, it’s unlikely the greed will be stymied.
Right now Overwatch is in a VERY delicate state. Most of Overwatch’s profits come from the lootboxes. IF lootboxes are considered gambling it would really cut into Overwatch’s profits so WoW may become the safer investment.
False currently EA is in a court battle with Belgium because Belgium has banned Lootboxes in games. That kind of negative rep has KILLED larger companies than EA.
Yes, and EA is happy to sue a government to continue this practice. That’s how important these systems are. They’re the only way companies have to squeeze even more profits out of consumers. Not offering a better game, ‘Cause that requires more overhead. Just shady practices designed to prey on psychological tricks.
This is all nothing but your opinion.
I see no sign that RP population is stable. It seems to me that it’s crashing and burning worse than any other realm I play on.
And you have no idea how many casuals have left. It could already be half of them. Most of my friends’ list have stopped playing.
Blizzard might have that data. They could if they wanted to, just as they could have collected data from people leaving the game but chose not to.
You see it that way I see it as the world finally saying that certain AAA Gaming companies can not longer get away with scummy tactics.
IDK bout Ravencrest but MG and WRA (the big two rp servers) are doing quite well one could easily argue the lack of players on your server is not because of them leaving but them simply migrating to more populated servers. Especially since blizz has increased server capacity for those high pop servers a few times.
Rumor has it that Activision-Blizzard is focusing on cutting costs since they don’t feel they can maintain a large number of MAUs. Their response to the decline is to double down on reducing costs rather than trying to create better content. So, yes. That is basically killing/ruining WoW until only the addicts are left and they can milk it for as long as they can.
kotaku. com/the-past-present-and-future-of-diablo-1830593195
“This is the first year we’ve heard a priority being cutting costs and trying not to spend as much,” said one person who was in the meeting. “It was presented as, ‘Don’t spend money where it isn’t necessary.’”
Ravencrest is not an RP server.
I’m not sure what your basis for claiming Moonguard is doing “quite well” is. Other servers have loads of people playing content including Legion and down. I see no activity on RP servers in old content, which is very much like I was seeing when Horde died on Moonguard. There were still max level players (this was in wod), but nobody was rolling new characters or leveling.
Really, the meaning of the realm pop numbers has changed so many times it means absolutely nothing to us but to mislead us.
The idea that a server where fewer players are seen means everyone paid to realm transfer is fantasy.
CRZ means lots of servers are shown as one to players. If they can’t put together 15-20 realms into a shard that looks busy, they have failed.
The highest pop realms are CRZ’d together into a megashard.
The idea that Moonguard is as busy as Zul’jin because they are both “full”, ROTFLMAO.
If your talking bout the whole paycut thing the youtuber known as TheQuartering was talking about…just so ya know he once lead a smear campaign against the Wizards of the Coast because they banned him form Magic: the Gathering tournaments for attacks against their community members so he is not the best source.
Actually MG horde is making a comeback.
The idea of sharding in bfa was not to make servers “look busy” it was to actually REDUCE the amount of players onscreen to avoid the lag and crashes that plagued the launches of WoD and Legion.
Or any game period
Blizz needs to assassinate WoW because I for one would love a WoW 2, an overhaul so extreme that an expansion couldn’t cover it. One of those “The king is dead. Long live the King.” moments.
While I would love that I am worried it would end up like Everquest 2…
I have no idea who that is. I was referring to the kotaku article.
I suppose it just depends on what people considered a dead game in regards to an MMO. I mean technically its stuff can be active and online and even have a niche following but in the eyes of the gaming world unless you have a pretty large substantial base these online service games are seen as dead.
For the most part is really should not matter to the individual as long as you are having fun. The only concern is whether or not it has the potential to disrupt the flow of content going forward, such as if they do not see the financial return anymore to pump out content like they do or switch the game to F2P style like many other MMOs have.
Really though, I just don’t see the MMO market ever making a comeback that could reach the scale it once was in the mid 2000s for many years. It will probably be a long time and some huge technology breakthroughs before that happens.
I’m a Roleplayer. I have been since I started in Vanilla. Myself and my entire RP group have quit playing because of how bad the story is in BFA. It’s really hard to get excited about writing your characters when the expansion’s lore is so awful. I know we’re just a handful of people, but I imagine we’re not the only ones.
Well I see your a night elf. I thought with this new warfront and Night elves returning back to their WC3 roots you would be excited?
They have seen off a lot of competition over years but someone will come long and create something one day that will make wow look like it was made by amateurs, hell it might even be blizzard. Current WoW is no better than ESO or FF and thats not saying those are amazing all three are average.
The good thing is the RPG scene is still very good , Bloodborne, Dark souls , Witcher series , looking forward to Cyberpunk 2077 as well and hopefully ES6
Fingers crossed that Disney comes to their senses and strikes a deal with CD Projekt to make a new Star Wars game.
What I wouldn’t give to see a game in the spirit of KOTOR. Like if KOTOR met the Witcher.
If only, dreams can come true.
I wonder how many people know that Ion is the one who proved that pre-nerf C’thun was mathematically impossible.
Blizzard themselves can kill wow. Im casual and i don’t plan on Resubbing. Most of my mythic raiding guild don’t log on anymore, mythic + were fun in legion but it feels like a chore with all the trash. Get a bad affix week and nobody does them anyways. If they scew up classic its over. With games like lost ark, pantheon, torchlight frontiers (hopefully not chalked full of MTX)
And im also not resubbing because they completely disrespected the diablo community. With reading higher up quotes basically telling me ill “come around” sorry. Not this time
So in my opinion i think wow is as close to ever to “dying”