I would go to Goldshire for the wildest party on the last day.
I would say for blizz WoW is pretty healthy.
Just for us players it kinda sucks because the huge playerbase is split into 20 different versions of WoW.
A: Most likely looks same like it did with other mmo’s i have quit over the years. The game will either bore me to death or its just not fun other way and ill just quit.
B: Propably too different to a game that i want to play.
at max max it will be alive for 5 years.
The world is moving so fast that everything can change in the blink of an eye.
by that Time Ai will be so good that it will change everything include video games.
now think about it. will blizzard create a new version of wow with a new engine or something more modern to save wow? NO IN MY PERSONAL OPINION.
A question : my Last day will be me and my friends sitting around a fire in one of the old jungles of azeroth talking about our wars. stories and advantures that we had in more than 10 years of playing world of warcraft then I will say this in the last minute after we record it and keep it in our pcs for good:: (it was a glorious ride my friends.)
B. question:
if they make wow2.0 it will be legendary.
if they dont it will die in the next 5 years (at max)
I would wonder through deadmines (hopefully the classic version that is in TW) and then head to darkshire build a campfire and raise a toast to all I have known through WoW, and I would do that on my vanilla paladin, which was my first toon.
Not something I think about.
I think if it’s announced it’s stopping, I’ll just quit cold turkey right then and there.
But… Maybe I’ll feel different if it ever happens.
That’s assuming I’m still playing by that time, of course.
I had many long breaks over these years (more frequent since my dear guildies all quit years ago) where I played less and less and suddenly just stopped loggin in alltogether, but I always knew wow was still there for a dose of nostalgia to come back to. So I’m really not sure what I would do, or if I even log in on that day, It would probably hit me way to hard and i’d just be like this
Honestly dont think im even still playing at that point. And if i do i’ll probably not make a big deal out of it. Maybe i’ll log out at the inn in Boralus, sitting on the chair with the popcorn
I don’t have a single character, I switch characters often enough so my only bond is with the latest character. So probably that won’t be something I would mourn.
There’s one special place in Eversong Woods, somewhat east, on the sea beach that I visit every time I level another elf. It’s very nice. But I won’t miss it, because I’ll always be able to play TBC on those “special” servers, even when Blizzard will be no more, their digital legacy will be around. At this time I spent most of my life playing WoW, so it’ll always be in my heart.
My sister sister passed away many years ago and her favourite place was a little boat in the night elf starter zone fishing. I’d sit in that boat and listen to the music.
So the peak of WoW was at the release of Cataclysm with 12 million subs or something. We also know that Shadowlands sold 3.7 million units in less than 1 month, but that was an exception due to the lockdowns. So assuming that 2 million people (which is a very pessimmistic number) were active during Dragonflight and that the long-term population curve follows a simple exponential formula (ie. next_year = previous_year x decline_factor) and considering that there was a 12 year gap between Cata and DF, that implies a decline factor of approximately 14%.
Using a simple spreadsheet to see what the population will look like down the road, we arrive at these figures:
2030: 500k
2040: 130k
2050: 29k
2070: 1.4k
Since I know there are MMOs out there with less than 1000 stable players, it’s somewhat “safe” to say that many of us here will either have died of old age or be in the stages of dementia by the time WoW servers go offline.