WoW is Thriving

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Please before you start another wow is dying thread make sure you have raw facts to support your claim, before posting. That also goes for all the stupid youtube vids on the net claiming wow is dying. Also people have been claiming wow is dying 1 year after wow release :stuck_out_tongue:

As far as I am aware the only people that have the raw facts are Blizzard themselves. Yes, they have all the INSIGHT and DATA to show how well the game is doing. You do NOT have that DATA. So why post?

I play on a low pop server and I always see people around in cities, low leveling areas and high leveling areas. I can also get in a lfg dungeon or pvp within a reasonable amount of time. Always. Sure rarely I have to wait for awhile but that is rarely.

Based on my experience with how many people I see around on low pop shards and servers I can conclude that wow is thriving. Can I not?

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People have said itā€™s been dying since Vanilla so just do what weā€™ve always done; ignore them and play the game if youā€™re having fun.

The game will only truly die when the devs themselves kill it.

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Iā€™m on a low pop server too and I always see plenty of other players about.

Been seeing lots of horde about in legion zones too :slight_smile: with WM switched off I might add.

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You are seeing people because of the CRZ system. When you go to, I donā€™t know, some Legion zone, you have a zone to yourself on your own realm, CRZ notices that and joins people from other realms in the same zone so that you are on the same shard and can see each other. That makes the world look alive. Thatā€™s all.

(If things go the way they are going, they might start adding NPCs instead of players.)

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Noticed no change at all in playerbase at my server tbh.
Queues see the same, always people in main hubs, lots of RPers etc

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I see plenty from aerie peak and bronzebeard (my joined realms) in both general and trade chat and out in the open world.

Yes I see others from other realms too but please donā€™t discount that I am seeing plenty from my own realms in pre 110 zones and 110+ zones.

Also my friend list has quadrupled in the past 3 weeks, how amazing is that? Lol

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There is a reason why LFG is dying out and blizzard doesnā€™t make sub numbers public anymore. Think about it

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When you see all these people can you ask them to play some dungeons so I can actually get one to pop under 45 minutes. Iā€™ve tried so many times at night and I just canā€™t get one to pop. Shame really. And depends where you are. I have been standing around a lot of the cities and been worrying as to where all the players have gone.

I hope you are right cus the proof as they say is in the pudding and Iā€™m not getting any joy out of grouping for dungeons. Its pretty dead. Slows up around 65+. I never see anyone from my actual realm by the way. I spotted one the other night and got very excited.

And seriously just do a /who in game and you can see how many players are about. I stopped doing it cus it kinda made me low.

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People have a weird fixation with subscriber numbers.

Take Vanilla WoW. Your gaming experience wasnā€™t defined by however many millions of people played WoW. It was defined by the couple of thousand players on your server.

Thereā€™s a strange desire to equate the enjoyment of WoW with the amount of people who play the game. But no oneā€™s enjoyment relies on millions of other people playing WoW. A few thousand at best, maybe.

Itā€™s the same notion that keeps other, smaller MMOs running. You donā€™t need huge audiences. You just need a game world that can sustain itself with a few thousand players. And that holds true for just about all MMOs, including WoW.

However many subscriber numbers WoW has is really only of financial interest. It has little relevance in regards to peopleā€™s play experience.

/shrug.

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You donā€™t notice but your very first sentence already contains things illustrating the decline of the playerbase: you are playing on a realm that is the result of a merge with other realms.

I donā€™t discount anything, itā€™s just that if Blizzard turned off CRZ, zones would be nearly totally empty, as in, youā€™d be alone here. Despite your positive outlook, etc.

This already happens on RP realms which have special rules for CRZ. This char of mine is on the biggest RP realm in EU and outside of BFA, I am frequently simply alone (eg, when I was doing the elders).

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i didnt see a trade chat post in 3 monthsā€¦ yea, very much thriving.

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Even without bronzebeard I would still see plenty from aerie peak about and in the chat.

Believe that the game is dying and wallow in that if that makes you happy.

Iā€™m positive for WoW even if bfa is a poor expansion, the game I love is still there and there is still plenty of people around playing it too, Iā€™ve even made new friends and had fun fighting alongside levelling horde players in my shards.

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Double standards my man, you canā€™t post the above and then name your thread and conclude ā€œwow is thrivingā€ based on your conclusion without raw dataā€¦it works both ways fella.

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Thatā€™s just wishful thinking. Did you count? No. So you just ā€œsupposeā€. Well, I am telling you what the results are, because I can see it with my own eyes where CRZ follow special rules (not turned off completely, there are still people from other realms, but less). And to anyone who ever developed it is obvious what the effect of a temporal merge is like - it is very efficient when you have a whole region as a base, even with language division, you take 0.5 average players per old zone (example), multiply that by the number of eligible realms (hundreds) and end up with a very workable number. What you are seeing with CRZ is several ten times to several hundred times more than what youā€™d be seeing without it.

But whatever. You live on a merged realm, you live under the constant big effect of CRZ, yet you suppose that the number of players you see in the world would somehow be good even without that. Whatever.

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activisionblizzard is firing hundreds of people and their stock is down by 50% in the last 4 months, no1 likes bfa and the sub numbers dropped so much that blizzard is no longer sharing numbersā€¦ yea i am sure wow is thrivingā€¦

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I like it. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

And Iā€™ll go out on a limb and say that the people who play the game do so because they also enjoy it. It would kind of be asinine otherwise.

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I donā€™t need to count to see people from my own realm. Aerie peak.

But just to give you an idea I did have a play about with censusplus which counts players on my realm (aerie peak) only and on my faction (alliance) and that was around 900 currently active players last time I ran it.

Make of that what you will. Probably it will be something negative and as such Iā€™m out.

Oh but before I go just some food for thought. Blizzard are releasing classic in around 6 months, there is confirmed news of new releases being announced in 2019 probably at blizzcon, they have just spent money on updating the forums across the board and are currently hiring devs and content creators for an unannounced, unnamed Diablo project that is highly rumoured to be Diablo 4. If that is the signs of a company on the brink then the whole world is literally about to collapse and WoW is the least of our worries.

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LFG is dead only on alliance side, horde side looks very good.

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Itā€™s the sign of more sky-is-falling forum threads being made.

Brace yourself. The quarterly report is coming! :rofl:

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Is ok my Dr upped my Prozac so Iā€™m prepared :rofl:

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