After some research, I found out that the midgnight is a new expansion that is coming to the game. Apparently one comes out every 2 years or so? The question is, do we even need anyone that would consider playing it, in classic? I think not. I’m not keen on grouping or raiding with fortnite kids which is more or less the same as those players, I would say.
There was but it was way after DF released, the week DF released there was a drop of less than 10% of players with then the normal Christmas drop in players and with most people being back after that, then like 2 months later we did see a more massive drop. So my point about DF not causing a drop still stands, and I do agree with you Wrath is just bad.
And while you might be a big fan of PvP most wow players do play mainly for the raids so thats the population that is more worth looking at the stats for.
You are exactly the same type of player, who pretends, that he’s better and higher than other group of players. Also more I play classic, more I see, that it has way more “Fortnite kids” then retail.
I did not say I thought I was better than anyone. It is a preference. And I would argue that the mindset is not suitable for vanilla WoW, as it was not made for that type of players. In fact the genre of MMO is not made for that kind of player.
Indeed it was the most played for some months (nostalgia was a huge factor), but you’re not telling the full story here, WotLK was the Classic expansion which retained the least amount of players (TBC even if it was not that popular it still retained most of its players, like 90%). WotLK Classic literally lost like more than 50% of its playerbase when it reached the final patch of the expansion (25% of its playerbase was lost when it reached the ICC patch).
WotLK was not that great, people realised that when they revisitted it again.
Those things are true.
And the drop off in players was well after DF came out so once again, the amount of classic players leaving to go to a retail expansion is a massive minority.
Our whole guild has transferred from retail to classic just because of how bad midnight is .so no idea why op is so scared of midnight
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This kid is just trolling. TBC will be fine even without Midnight players.
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Can’t be. It’s post nerf.
It will be fun steamrolling raids
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Try retail, you can one shot everything in the tbc raids
What are you smoking ?
https://ironforge.pro/population/classic/overall/
The drop is normal but do note the highs. Wotlk Classic 1 year after release, still got 400k raiders vs 600k in his peak. The retention IS huge after 1 year. It started to drop at the end of the expansion.
Keep in mind that Wotlk Classic was going for 19 (?) month while TBC Classic for 14 (?) months and if you look at the graph of Wotlk, you will notice that the big drop is ..well .. exactly in that 5 months difference PLUS the idea that Wotlk will not have an ERA server and many didn’t even think to go forward into Cataclysm ( hence the drop in the last 5 months ).
That’s not saying TBC is not an amazing expansion , but ..
This is a pathetic remark. I gave you data and you have data. TBC never got and will never have the Wotlk numbers. Wotlk after 1 year still had more players than TBC in his peak.
“This kid”, oh, because you know my age?
Since you seem to be a mind reader, could you please give me the lottery numbers? Thanks in advance my low IQ man (average Horde IQ btw).
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Don’t worry people will be raid logging from week 2 and just logging to clear the nerfed raids.
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tbc is dead not because of midnight, but because we get post nerfed raids. Literally easier than LFR from cata-
You too are not telling the full story. There is a lot of different reasons wotlk population dropped that had nothing with wotlk in itself. You can not just compare numbers of vanilla / tbc / wotlk. To mention only a few things that pissed players off and made them quit wotlk in masses: the introduction of the wow token in classic, the announcement there will also be no wotlk servers and the game would instead continue to cata (while the thing that was in sight at the end of tbc was wotlk, which is where most people expected the classic journey to end), SOD started, a new retail expansion launched that wasn’t shadowlands.^^ And there also were no longer covid restrictions that made everyone stay at home.
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Then TBC Anniversary is dead on arrival, since Midnight is going to be launched one month or less after the TBC launch. They wanted to overlap the releases as much as they could.