Is wow finally dying?

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I have not seen anyone say anything in game past 2 months.

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I don’t know how popular your realm is? They should start allowing people to transfer realms from low populated ones.

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It’s a combination of 3 realms, dead that’s all.

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That has been constantly been happening, especially since wotlk

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I actually only made this belf to unlock velves uwu, either way stormwind on AD is never really dead.

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Well that’s where the downhill started. :disappointed:

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Blizzard calls it a “normal” pop realm.

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Unfortunatelly most things in this game is less enjoyable since everything have this kinda rush and push mentality to release new content asap to make customers get curious and hopefully come back instead of taking their time to make quility content. There are so much quantity mini game content that we get bored of within a month

Blizzard are capable of making amazing content but for that to happen they need to take a chill pill, it’s hard to get attached to a game filled with mini games that has no real challenge

The only thing that sadly always seem to dissapoint me is how they somehow always seem to mess up the gameplay when it comes to how the classes works. How can it always get worse when it is such crucial element of this game?

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I have no idea about AD, but I had to transfer my main toons off too servers since I came back they were so dead.

This time I did what I should have done day one and went for the highest available alliance population that was still open for transfers.

A lot of servers are very low pop, especially for one faction or another.

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Would be insane if we could have 100 vs 100 battlegrounds

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Only issue I have with the current game is sharding and lack of social aspect/community. Sharding is just terrible, seeing people phase away and being put into different shards from people from your realm, with strangers whom you can’t even trade with. Sharding directly killed server communities, crippled them at the very least and it’s despicable.

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-Must- you come out with the same incorrect statistics and insults every time?

Stormwind certainly is not dead on AD, was pretty bustling just now. Orgrimmar has never been busier, and Silvermoon has picked up after a short slump, there are also mobile hubs out in the wilds (Thunder Totem currently I believe).

I know you like to turn any topic you can, into bashing the Horde, but here you have really missed the mark. If Anything AD seems even busier, just more spread out, not stagnating in just one hub.

Although if ‘RP’ in Goldshire died out, I am sure no one on AD would shed a tear…

(Editted as I typed ‘Hob’ instead of ‘Hub’. If it was all stagnating on one Hob, we would have considerably greater problems when someone turned it on! :smiley: )

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The forums are mostly just people moaning, the main reason people have to go to a forum is when they are unhappy or if they need information about something and cant’ find it on a third party site, or if they don’t know about the third party sites.

So no I don’t think it’s dying. I’ve been seeing wow is dying threads nearly every expansion.

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Blizzard at least was capable to great amazing content, sadly we haven’t seen anything amazing in 10 years. They have lost their way, all they are trying to do is to make wow a chore that you have to do every day. I don’t care for content that is just busywork it’s not fun. This is why I ignore all Ubisoft games, because they are all just busywork.
I don’t want to play a game where I do the same thing over and over again from 1 to 120 level and when I get to 120 level I get to do the same quests over and over again.
I don’t think anyone wants the game to be as boring as possible. It is certainly not new player friendly. Can you imagine what a disappointment this game is for new players when they start their character from level 1 and need to level those 120 useless levels? Because nothing you do while you level up means anything. Then you get to level 120 and get 380 ilevel gear in 2 days.
Then I guess you go and whine in the forums, I dunno what else there is to do while you wait for the next patch which will always be a disappointment.

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sounds fun, doesn’t work.

Alot of people already complain that big fights like tarren mill vs south shore or big fights at the workshop in ioc lagg so much they can’t move.

Even for me i notice a drop in framerate even if i still can move normally.

100 vs 100 would be a giant laggfest. Also melee classes really don’t stand a chance in such huge fights

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I think Blizzard has really learn just 1 thing and it’s that bigger does not always mean better. They should keep it that way since servers are already so bad that if there’s more than 5 ppl on screen it might crash.

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As we are still a few months away from a major patch, yes 8.1.5 is coming next week but it will not have major changes, people are either waiting for 8.2 and classic this summer or they have moved on all together.

I find my time in WOW less myself and am spending more time in Final Fantasy 14. I still log in to complete the daily emissary quests on my 3 characters in WOW and I farm some old mounts once a week on heroic, but other than an assault here or there, I have mostly checked out of WOW.

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Yeah. They’d probably end up with the same nostalgia of the Classic players who did the same from 1-60? You say those ‘useless’ 120 levels. I presume you are one of those people who thinks that content only begins at level 120, and there is no story, no development, nothing that occurs, just an arid wasteland of levelling before then?

See that’s the problem, if you play the game for what it is, an MMORPG, you don’t have that ‘Gimme’ mentality. You won’t mind levelling, you won’t mind progressing without clicking a ‘Bing! I 120 now!’ button. And you’ll appreciate it better. I can’t -wait- to see people’s reactions to Classic when it is released and they realise they can’t just power forward to Level 60 content at warp speed.

Retail is no different. You get to revisit old zones, try out different stuff, different classes, and you level. Sure, you can’t do it in a day, but anyone who wants lvl 120 in a day so they can race into end content is their own worst enemy. Why would you do that? What possible benefit does that have for you, or the groups you join, your enjoyment of the game?

Why not just play the game as it was, why does everything have to be a mad dash to end Content? It’s not Blizzard’s fault… If I skip through a book and read only the last chapter, I can’t complain that the novelist is bad. Have a little patience. Play the game…

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dude i just came back after so many years!

the wow we loved is long gone!

the retail lovers call 5vs5 world pvp :(( fights with more people will be end by gms because server lag but the main reason for the lag are the NEW servers/sharding tech from blizzard lmao.

i hate to say it but yea wow is freakin dead,… u will still find some players who love the game but the playerbase we had is long gone for good reasons!

last hope will be the classic servers but if they use there sharding tech on this it wont be classic, it will be just retail with some classic game mechanics! no open world pvp, no mass events, no big communities no fun… the end of wow :frowning:

i still have hope, i dont give it up :frowning:

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maybe not 100vs100 but the pvp we have now, isnt worth calling pvp. And seriously whoever came up with the idea to remove conquest and honor point [Buying gear etc] damn you, you screwed pvp for me.