Gotta be said, its staggering how happy Blizzard is to drain ALL the hype, and ALL the will and desire from the playerbase to stay in their game.
ICC started taking Classic out the back, but now in t11 ? We got laid out with both barrels to the back of the head.
They are milking every last dime from subs that they can before they release something. A mass majority of Guilds die, people quit, and every time less and less come back when they finally release a new tier/new content.
I mean no wonder that the player graph looks like a wave. And they say “Its normal”. Not its aint. Its only normal when you neglect your playerbase for a staggering amount of time.
Just a simple comparison, Firemaw went from a healthy and somewhat stable 28-25k players on IF, to the current 8k. And Gehennas ? Even worse, from 34-30k to 9k now.
They put a staggering amount of loot inside of the raids, which means even the semi competent Guilds geared up by week 7-8. And currently its what ? Week 24 ? Firelands should have been out a month ago. What is there to “test”. They are literally buying time to like us for another months sub.
And still, its gonna release broken, and buggy and in a horrible state.
The classic players should have let this company go the way of the dodo when BFA and SL were making sure that most retail players never come back again. And then they also have the gall to try and hint at Classic+… the greed is insane.