this isnt my post its from taurth on a previous thread but very apt for this as well and spot on.
wow doesnt need these guys, screw them and their elitist opinions the game is better off without. damn sure as a casual player nothing they were moaning about was impacting me anyway.
`And what if they stopped playing? Millions have stopped over the years.
Also, thank god Preach and Asmongold left the game, seriously…some of the biggest problems WoW community has been having in the last few years is because of the so called “elite” streamers, who only evaluate the game from the high-end tier point of view, which a very small percentage of the playerbase ever gets to.
You want to be elite? Good for you, but the game is not built as solely a competitive platform. In fact, I would argue that part of WoW’s problems started with the constant needs for the devs put work into balancing the e-sport scene and keeping the elite players happy, instead of just building content that is just fun first and then worry about balance.`
I don’t mind paying a sub. I pay 2 of mine (with some free recruit a friend months) and I pay for one of my kids to play too.
I just want them to chill on the borrowed power systems. The only one I ever liked was the Legion artifact weapon because I could actually see what I was working towards without rng.
If they could also fix the old content scaling I’d be over the moon.
Chromie time needs to open all dungeons rather than a couple per expac, otherwise I really like it.
Thats just it, nobody but Blizzard do know, which is why all these assumptions and guesses on figures are just that. Who knows if Blizzard are happy with the figures or not, again it is pure speculation on everybody’s part.
New World in its current form will not last a year, it needs to be delayed and work done on the game because otherwise it’ll be a few patches before the game is solid enough to be considered launch worthy.
Also I still can’t get on board with Amazon using the cash shop to sell stuff like rested xp bonuses in the future. That just feels like they’re preparing for the game to be a bit rough, which it is.
Why would they? This kind of careful checking of sources is soooo last century, nobody lets it get in the way of making a quick buck these days.
On that matter, I would be interested if there is any reliable data out there on WoW player numbers? The only one I know is https://www.benched.me/activity but this only counts M+ activity which may or may not be a good proxy for overall activity.
Absolutely click bait video with vague evidence, there are many players that wont be registered as they do not do m+ or raiding etc. Also We can not track numbers in china, It is country with population more than Eu+US combined, we can only guess how many milions subs are there on top of Eu+Us. Also Blizz has 26 milion MAU, Diablo 3 is like 20-50k of that max, Warcraft 50-100k , Starcraft probabbly 100-200k atleast due to it being popular in asia. Owerwatch I would put around 5-7m, Hearthstone also being mobile game must be atleast 15M or even more. And guess what? So remaining Mau is Wow and i would put it anywhere from 4-6M, Classic is probbably 1m of that so retail is like 4M or around that mark in terms of subs Atm. Also china numbers are not counted in theese MAU, as games are run under different branch in that country, that acts independently of activision.Basicaly blizzard in china is run by goverment to large extent.
