Disclaimer : Take these stats with a pinch of salt. These number may or may not be accurate, but they were obtained in the same way for years now so their trend should still have a meaning.
That said WoW’s rank can either be attributed to WoW doing great/bad, that the competition is struggling/ doing great or a mix a both.
Also these stats only count for EU/NA iirc. The chinese and Korean realms revenues aren’t included in this ranking for Blizzard.
Anna post made me wonder about another website used a few months ago to “show the proof that WoW was dead”, Super Data.
Imho 8.2 greatly improved BFA, even if it may not match your expectations. The fact BFA reached the top 10 in June although the patch was only out for 5 days should support my claim.
I believe (or hope ?) That July will be even better for the game, maybe to the extend of going back to the 3~5 spot the game used to have before BFA downfall.
Patch 8.2 is a big win for BfA, especially Mechagon. Let’s see if they can build on that for 8.3 and 8.3.5 pre-order bonus for allied races for next expansion!
I do think this expansion has improved with 8.2 but for me personally mostly because finally being able to fly. But i do like Nazjatar and especially Mechagon.
No offence to you, but i wish they will leave this allied race stuff to be buried with BFA and will continue how we always had it: expansion brings sometimes new race for us (because let’s face it only thing about allied race being called that is that if they released normal race with grind people would be furious but with that name “it is not the same thing”… also with that name they get away with reskinning in most of the cases).
I hope 9.0 will bring us new class and new profession. New profession i want the most, we haven’t got one for a while and even the olds ones are striped to pretty uninsteresting. I hope Blizzard brings professions to their old glory in 9.0.
I think at least for wow you need it to be at least alive so you have people to raid with,compete with and have good economies.
For single player it has 0 value but for multiplayer i think it’s pretty important.
I can use my brain properly without any panel or statistic , real or made up.
I kno HotS is beyond dead compared to LoL & DotA
I kno Fortnite is still #1 BR
I kno CSGO still surviving.
I kno Diablo III is dead the last years due to PoE
etc…
If you are legit gamer spending time on your PC , you can understand things like that without having someone streaming and screaming acting as ape tryin to brainwash you and for sure you dont need panels like these.
Well , at least me as person i couldnt care less about these stats.
I will play the games i love even 10 years later and so on.
True but for example i had never heard of that dungeon thingie game and also Diablo 3 feels very much alive the season i play it in ,only the season start month ofc.
And yeah if you game you understand this trends more or less but for example i feel Lol is way more dead than it was in Season 5 by a big milleage and dota is somewhat trailing as always and i don’t know if this is true or not and statistics like this can maybe open your eyes.
Stats won’t make me change my enjoyement but they may show me how the game is doing. They have been used for months by Doom sayers but now that they show positive results i think it’s worth reporting.
They also allow you to speculate on the future of the game, since Blizzard has more accurate data and use it to tell whether a feature is working or not. The raid and m+ are pretty similar than in 8.1 so it leave us with changes to azerite farming, essences, flying, gear design and World content.
Some of these things are partialy responsible for this rank, which means we’ll see more of them. Going further would be pure speculation but I’d say the two zones had a great impact on the game and that they may keep the two zones with different design concept for future updates.
In all honesty the real issue is when the MMO population is so low that you cannot actively participate in group content. E.g Queuing for example for pvp and its taking hours to pop.
haha you dare say this? in b4 50000 white knights claiming other wise.
ofc the game is dead. theres a reason all the major realms are connected / sharded together.
but then so what. if people enjoy the game let them play it, howver i believe the game is in a extremely bad state. only resubbed because i was losing my mind over league
those are the steam charts statistics of dota 2, the game wow looses to every month and yes those are accurate cause you can’t play dota2 without steam.
The ranking i gave is based on earnings, not active players. Dota 2 is known for its insane crowd funded competition prizes and the last one raised no less than 30M through a MTX giving only 25% to the Price pool, which means 120M worth of MTX for this competition
if you look at earnings then its even worse cause we all pay for subs, all of us are forced to pay + people pay for stuff like store mounts, transfers, name changes,faction changes.
But what does the OP post have to do with what you linked,as a dota2 chart,somehow it was WoW,but then it isnt.But it’s actually dota2 data.Where did you get those?
AIght. So?
So the game is “dead”. Now what? We panic? We cry? We mourn?
…aight. You can go do those…things.
I guess I will have to go play the “dead” game…
