The middle two tiers in Warhammer were stone dead, not a soul in sight.
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I played Wildstar the last couple years. And yeah, WoW is not like that. Which is why I say it’s in trouble, not that it’s dying. When you’ve seen one dying, you know better.
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3.3 million subscribers is nothing to scoff at. That’s still at LEAST $39 Million per month they are raking in, and thats at the lower rate due to year-long subs.
Well, if you pay your subscription with gold Blizzard gets more money than if you pay with cash. Race changes to the new hot allied race. Have you seen MMO-C’s statistics on cash shop mounts? Faction changes by silly guilds to take advantage of mechanics.
I don’t know what Blizzard makes a month per active player but I’m sure it’s quite a bit more than back in Wrath.
Add on the part where they still have more players than any of their Western competitors have had at any time except perhaps for the first month of SWTOR.
Yeah I’m not ready to shed a tear for Blizzard’s bottom line just yet.
Millions of subscriptions cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
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I know a lot of people express the same frustrations, but I think this is exactly the point of BfA.
It’s supposed to be an expansion about conflict, both on a grand scale and in the finer details. Anduin is trying to be king in the wake of one of the greatest humans to ever live, and he’s the last of his family line with no heir in sight… The Horde’s loose alliance is finally unraveling and people like Saurfang and Baine are feeling conflicted about their place in it… The synopsis for the BfA pre-order explicitly mentioned an “uncertain future” for Azeroth.
This is not supposed to be an easy time in Warcraft history and of course those feelings carry over to us at the players who immerse ourselves in the world.
No action in this war should be an easy decision and most characters fighting in it would likely have their reservations. I think any outrage the story has caused is intentional by Blizzard. This isn’t supposed to be a happy bedtime story.
yeah that’d be great if it was actually written well
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I feel that this… may be a rose-tinted view at best. You are welcome to it, but…
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As much as “faction pride” is a long conversation all by itself, I seem to recall that Blizzard claimed they were selling us, among other things, a “faction pride” expansion. What they delivered was an expansion in which neither side has anything much to take pride in.
There is no such thing as an easy time in Warcraft history. It not being an easy time does not necessitate players feeling angry and let down by what they paid for. That is caused by a disappointing player experience.
If Blizzard has intentionally outraged their customers, then they have a very strange business model.
And I have an honest question about this: Did you play MoP?
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I guess Alliance players can take pride in not being the hilariously cartoonish evil side of things, but there’s just so few moments where they can cheer for a victory that isn’t somehow hollow.
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Yeah, that’s one of the big problems, I think. They were going for faction pride, but they gave us faction rage. The narrative is not doing the community any good right now, either. I can’t recall ever seeing things this hostile, and this is the Warcraft fandom. Hostile is what we do.
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I think few things illustraight the difference between what we were sold on BfA and what we actually got than the difference between the BfA cinematic and the actual in game Siege of Undercity.
The cinematic is beautifully crafted and involves both sides heroically engaging in glorious combat.
The in game version has almost no glorious battle, is tedious, and revolves almost entirely around how Sylvanas is committing atrocities and has no honor.
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It’s certainly shown just how badly you have to mess up to -really- upset the WoW playerbase. Hell I didn’t frequent the forums muc hat all until maybe MoP? And not even then did it seem quite so bad…
But this …goodness me…
Yeah, pretty much…Horde players get treated to a story that makes them evil whether they like it or not, despite getting to be pretty heroic in Zandalar… and the Alliance just suffers defeats and never seems to get a victory that really …feels like it matters in the long run. Losing Theramore was pretty bad but, at least as far I know, many of the innocents escaped.
Meanwhile the loss of Teldrassil is turned into what might as well be an extinction level massacre of Night Elves…like, how is the Horde going to come back from that? I’m not even sure it can. More importantly; how are the Night Elves going to recover from this without some kind of divine intervention?
It might be the only thing that ICly saves the Nelves …unless Blizz just up and forgets there was a genocide. >_>
No king rules forever.
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Indeed not. The thought of WoW potentially dying is majorly depressing to me, because I do still love the game (even if I don’t love the state it’s in), but maybe it’d be for the best at some point if Blizzard can’t turn the ship around. I don’t particularly want to see it get worse.
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It’s a thought that troubles me too. I don’t like the idea of WoW dying out because of this kind of thing. Sure, I’ve considered quitting a few times this expac but…the idea of not having WoW around any more feels so weird to me and makes me feel a bit …uneasy, I guess? I’ve invested so much into developing my character’s stories that the idea of never writing anything more about Ariiah Novantos of Draenor, Nokeena the Lost, Veroneka De’bale and so many others is just…
I can’t imagine not having that anymore.
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Sad thing is, WoW is kinda like the Titanic now. That iceburg is right in front of us and the story’s convolution is like the rudders, too big to get us around it safely. I think a lot of people feel it’s impossible to turn around and things are only going to get worse.
Get your life belts on.
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