This is very bad for WoW. It has the potential to cause a death spiral which can kill the game.
If people see the game isn’t receiving any updates, then they will think the game is dying.
If they believe the game is dying, then they won’t play the game.
If nobody plays the game, then it will die.
Just the perception that a game is dying can kill it, because no new players will want to invest in a game they think won’t last, which means the population will keep shrinking. Sure, the game may not “die” as in having the servers shut down, but it can meet the same fate of other dead MMOs, such as Rift, and exist in a zombie state.
I fully believe this is why the devs released the “selfie patch” back in WoD. It was a stopgap measure to prevent the perception that the game was dying. It was an update for the sake of having an update. I wouldn’t be surprised if Shadowlands received an equally barren update just for the sake of having an update.
They do the same things that any industry based on an addiction does…
They build systems to keep you coming back and keep you playing. Casino’s do it, Facebook does it…
Please your opinion on the future of the game is just a guardrail to what length they are able to create that addiction by. They crunch the numbers and tell the devs what to build.
That something is sunk cost fallacy and it’s shackled me with this game for a while too. I don’t really know how to completely break from it but I am more and more coming to the reality that having emotional investment is something digital has severely negatively effected me. I guess this situation just makes it all the more real.
They were getting tons of work done crawling around the floor drunk before. Now it makes sense because you had to have been drunk to think the ideas implemented into shadowlands were good. cheers cya on the floor
It needs it, badly. We lucked out and got ours during a time when population was low (end of stormblood)
That’s not exactly what I was talking about, I was specifically talking about their “world quests” they brought up.
I have no idea what they meant by that.
There probably is a lot of people leveling between 1 and 60 right now I have no doubt. Then on the other hand, one of my guildies waited in a 40 minute queue for ala’mhigo as a tank last week
Here u go, straight from google’s insane database:
41% of US gamers are women.
That means this games doomed unless they change it. So there you have it MEN. Keep playing with MEN who want to DOMINATE YOU and you will be left with nothing but MEN who are DOMINATING you or WANT to be DOMINATED by you.
OR… You can cater 25% of your efforts to pleasing US. Oh wait… lawsuit… NM.
If it’s delayed to take care of people who have worked hard to make this game and have had to deal with harassment at work then please by all means, take their time. If it takes time to prove innocence then take their time. The people who have been working hard at work deserve a better environment so they can continue to do what they love to do.
It makes it seem like their heartless for laying off 100 people in a pandemic, but giving info shows they tried to keep them on and when they couldn’t they let them go with a decent chance of not losing their house before they find a new job.
But why though? The upper leaders and people who are gone, who are targeted by the lawsuit really don’t have a hand in WoW. Are they not capable of carrying on while this plays out? I mean that’s pretty common for most companies to be able to do.
We’ll just agree to disagree all I’m stating is the numbers that they laid off per year that’s it you’re the one reading more into it than it has to be
cheers cya on the floor