WoW Down to 5.6 Million Subscribers

Not one to complain very much but WOD has been the worst expansion by a long shot. If the next one is close to as bad as this one I'll be done too.

Originally Posted by RickJamesLich

The irony here is that WoD's release had a TON of people coming back, interested in what blizz had to offer, showing that people want to give the game a chance and see if it can get back to that former glory but blizzard keeps making bad decision after bad decision. In particular, blizz needs to decide whether or not they want to focus on making the game an MMO again, or catering to casual players that aren't interested in MMO's. Blizz has played both sides of the fence and it's starting to not work on either side.

easy to say than do because alot of the raiders have become casuals too.. and then there's shareholder you have to answer to.. Blizz across the board is set, but i'm sure they don't want WoW to become non profitable anytime soon..

FF ARR is appealing to the casuals too so the hardcore thing isn't the way to go, and in case you haven't realize the MMO market is much smaller than 5yrs ago and there is alot of good free mmo out there..

Originally Posted by Xuvial

In any case, I think Blizzard will be completely fine even with 2-3m subs. It would still keep WoW at the top of MMO charts.

That you are absolutely clueless about how businessmen think. There's absolutely nothing fine now at Blizzard's HQ. Their most prized possession is transforming into shit before their eye, I bet they are frantically looking for a solution

This expansion is a much bigger failure than any MMO, or maybe all the failed MMOs combined. It managed to lose a staggering 5 million players in less than 1 year. Yet, surprisingly, no heads are falling.

They really had a huge chance of relaunching WoW's popularity with WoD, they've managed to get back to 10 million players. Then... ZBANG... fuck ups after fuck ups... Garisson... flying... Ashran... Apexis grind... Insane reputation grinds... Arrogant developer statements... Retarded CM comments that proves they don't even play this game (Bashiok and his fucking retarded no flying defense). All the misinformation or lies or whatever the fuck those were about garrison features that never came to life, zones that never existed or were finished in time, state of flying and so on and so on.

Originally Posted by dryankem

Not one to complain very much but WOD has been the worst expansion by a long shot. If the next one is close to as bad as this one I'll be done too.

the garrison thing is cool but it shouldn't be instance with garrison they basically killed the main city gathering..

I once said once everyone start having there own person bubble you killing the mmo feel...

Good. After this expansion, the game deserves to die. God it was so horrible.

Originally Posted by darkwolfe

I blame catering to the elite.
This includes the no fly thing.
Nerfing the rewards from flat out most popular form of raiding into the ground this exp. All because the ""real raiders"" didnt feel important enough!

I blame catering to the bads. They sub and then faceroll through LFR and unsub. 0 challenge=0 incentive to stay

Originally Posted by Locruid

3: Again Class Balance AND Community. So there I am doing my Tannan Dailies. I have an area selected to myself. Usually about 6-20 mobs. I can handle a couple at a time. But now, Some dipshit hunter comes in with Barrage activated and pulls everything in the area and his pet tanks down all 20 mobs in about 20 seconds leaving me there with my penis in my hand waiting for respawns.

You're complaining about someone tagging mobs before you did. You're insufferable.

Originally Posted by mhdoe

prepare yourself the doomsayers are coming

No need for doomsayers, the numbers speak for themselves.

Originally Posted by Mosotti

That you are absolutely clueless about how businessmen think. There's absolutely nothing fine now at Blizzard's HQ. Their most prized possession is transforming into shit before their eye, I bet they are frantically looking for a solution

This expansion is a much bigger failure than any MMO, or maybe all the failed MMOs combined. It managed to lose a staggering 5 million players in less than 1 year. Yet, surprisingly, no heads are falling.

They really had a huge chance of relaunching WoW's popularity with WoD, they've managed to get back to 10 million players. Then... ZBANG... fuck ups after fuck ups... Garisson... flying... Ashran... Apexis grind... Insane reputation grinds... Arrogant developer statements... Retarded CM comments that proves they don't even play this game (Bashiok and his fucking retarded no flying defense). All the misinformation or lies or whatever the fuck those were about garrison features that never came to life, zones that never existed or were finished in time, state of flying and so on and so on.

Sooo much THIS.. well said bro!! Its like they said this is what we're giving you now love it and shut up...You think they learn from Cata, but this is CATA part2..

I pity how blizzard fiddles while Rome burns.

"More developers are working on World of Warcraft than ever before."

THEN WHY THE FUCK IS THERE SUCH LARGE GAPS BETWEEN CONTENT!

Originally Posted by Buck-Shot

Sooo much THIS.. well said bro!! Its like they said this is what we're giving you now love it and shut up...You think they learn from Cata, but this is CATA part2..

nonono, this is a whole new level of incompetence. It's just known as wod.

If I had to break it down, there was something majical about the game in 2005-2006/7. things have changed because they short changed the community. LFR is and was a horrible idea, and i wish people could see that. this game was about who you know and what status you could reach at the start. Now its nothing more than a grind fest and you dont have to know anyone. i still watch vodka on stream, mainly killarslol, because those guys represent the best this game ever had to offer, to become part of the elitist. thats what we shot for as noobs. i miss those days. they where the best. this community needs to go back to why they fell to n love in the first place, and what we see today does not resemble those days. method is whats wrong with the game today, this is not a profession, its a game, and at the end of the day it should be better

Not surprised. Not a single bit.

Q3

Prepare yourselves

After epic fail garrison to put shityard was the worst thing ever. I all together stopped playing, gave away every WoD item I had since I know: I don't care about it anymore.

No fly, make every profession as dumb as possible, removing ther reason to be herbalist / miner did not help at all. One more "no fly till end of expac" and I'm 100% I won't buy the next one. Fly is a core of this mmo. That was the reason I did evey loremaster. Now Blizz tied it to achis what it was for killed the whole purpose....

Nicelly done Blizz I hope you proud to drive away millions of gamers...

flying did mean something back in the day. You finally made it with the big boys.....now the stripped it away with everything else.

Originally Posted by Daish

LFR is ruining the game

if casuals want to see content they can watch it on youtube

Yeah, dude, take away the only content left for the vast majority of players. Apart from garrisons of course, that's really cool

Originally Posted by Raamul

So the actual loses are around 2m not counting tokens. That's epic.

Even more impressive, it's still 1.5M down even with their 180 turn on "no fly" statement. I'm affraid to imagine how many it could be without this turn.

they keep listening to people like sco and slootbag, massive failure on their part

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if sco devoted this time to being good at his job, maybe he would be. sloot is a professional smartass according to social media...lol. wow...that says enough for me.