One could argue like that, but the base of the game has always been the same-ish with your your class, level up, accumulate power, kill bad boy, wait, level up further, accumulate power again,kill bad boy again.
I’m just saying I fon’d blame people for eventually quitting. I myself took a break from WoD to 8.1 - and it wasn’t because of the content / systems / whatever
People left for multitide of reasons. Starting with dislike to certain changes to real life changes. There is no magic button for Blizz to press to make “10 mil suddently drop from the sky”
Its still WoW. No matter how many times they “repaint it and refurbish it”. A car will still remain a car regardless on how many upgrades you pop in it. So people who are simply not intersted in a “car” in general wont suddently buy it because there is a “new audio system or what ever”.
Same with old WoW players. There are enough people out there who consider WoW a “closed chapter” in their lives and wont return no matter what Blizz does…
I have never played DND sadly. Not many people in my country who knows how to, and I just wasn’t motivated enough to find out how to play properly. Lore is a banger tho, took a dive into it recently.
Different products. Mobile phones are used regardless if you are a home -worker or a traveling parent with 5 children oe what ever. A video game does not have that luxury. Since not all have the time to play video games anymore.