Drivel? It was a very justifiable thought regardless of whether or not it is actually true. Again, thematically and in terms of subject matter, I really don’t remember anyone saying BFA was going to be the end.
Did you even read my post? I aknowledged that and provided a potential alternative. Take it or leave it.
StAhP pLs. Yeah let’s stop having opinions altogether. You came into the comments exhaling steam and ready to insult. What are you, an Activision intern? Did someone crap in your coffee? Get outta here.
Obviously it makes sense if you’re one of the folks waiting for Warcraft 4 (RTS)
but the expansions often don’t actually expand on base game itself. Sure there are elements such as customization, but gameplay is night and day if we compare to classic, not even in a quality sense, but just fundamentally so.
Yeah, but I mean that it’s changed genre. It’s not really an MMORPG anymore. It’s sort of prevented from being “massive” due to all the instancing going on at all times (sharding, dungeons, bgs and all the menus that will transport you to these things and beyond). Neither is there all that much of an RPG left to it.
This is a wow dying thread I can have respect for. Op has clear arguments and actually very logic ones. However blizz still cashes a lot tbh, wow tokens, companions, pets for real money, sub time, xpack prices. As long as their market is still booming I dont think they will end this war…craft.
Edit: are their really so few -18 kids on the game? I happen to see them all the time
If Warlords of Draenor and Battle for Azeroth have taught us anything, it’s that this game is immortal. It cannot die. You can have multiple expansions that are utter dogsh*t and people will always come back for more. Even Warlords at its lowest of 2 million subscribers was still the no.1 successful MMO at the time. WoW cannot die, time to face it, it’s this lack of danger or fear that allows blizzard to basically betray their player base time and time again, ignoring their wants and desires whilst cramming more and more store mounts down their throats.
I hope it won’t be the last expansion. I’ve been around since Vanilla, with the exception of Cata and early MoP where I started a business and a family. I am part of the aging demographic, I’m well above the 28 years quoted above as the average WoW player age, that’s around the age I was when I started playing. I no longer play cutting edge content as I don’t have the time, but what I do do I enjoy.
I have played other games over the years, but none have held my attention the way WoW does. Even the not so great expansions i don’t get bored as quickly as I do with other games. I’m not done with WoW yet, and if they do call it a day with Shadowlands I hope there is something else in a similar vein released in the same universe.
Even if ‘insert expansion’ would be the end, than it still doesn’t mean WoW will end.
Look to the past, MMO’s go into ‘maintenance mode’ before they get canned.
As long as there is profit to be made without releasing new content, then WoW will keep on chugging along.
