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Thread: 1.3 million sub drop
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2013-05-08, 08:42 PM #81Warchief
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2013-05-08, 08:42 PM #82Void Lord
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It's not dying. I honestly expected this somewhat. The more we focus on "WOW IS DYING MAN111111111111111111" The worse things will be.No, most of them wont come back anymore. The game is in fact dying, a very slow and long death that will take several more years and most likely 1-2 another expansions at the very least before it eventually dies for good.#TeamLegion #UnderEarthofAzerothexpansion plz #Arathor4Alliance #TeamNoBlueHorde
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2013-05-08, 08:42 PM #83Pandaren Monk
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Funny thing is... 5 PLAYING it is probably a pretty accurate number. The rest of the players probably have no idea what they're doing Originally Posted by Nindoriel
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2013-05-08, 08:42 PM #84The Unstoppable Force
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Mm I honestly didn't see that big of a drop I'm actually surprised.
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2013-05-08, 08:42 PM #85The Lightbringer
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No wow is dying it will just take years for it to die but it is dying. They will never get back up to 10m+ subs. There will probably be few more expansions but they keep trying big changes and failing they're not going to get them back with that. Originally Posted by Aeluron Lightsong
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2013-05-08, 08:42 PM #86Stood in the Fire
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Actually it's probably well below that level if you consider only US/Eu subs. Without knowing the data split you can't really know the comparable figures. Originally Posted by Superman-BladesEdge
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2013-05-08, 08:43 PM #87Banned
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They just said they their was more of a decline this year and they expect more of a decline
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2013-05-08, 08:44 PM #88Epic!
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How many subs in the US and Europe? That's all I want to know. This 8 million number is meaningless.
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2013-05-08, 08:44 PM #89The Unstoppable Force
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No way to sugarcoat this. MoP has not stopped the decline.
"There is a pervasive myth that making content hard will induce players to rise to the occasion. We find the opposite." -- Ghostcrawler
"The bit about hardcore players not always caring about the long term interests of the game is spot on." -- Ghostcrawler
"Do you want a game with no casuals so about 500 players?"
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2013-05-08, 08:45 PM #90I am Murloc!
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Maybe they will learn to stop artificially extending content through double gating and slow valor point accumulation. WoTLK model was better for everyone.
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2013-05-08, 08:45 PM #91The Lightbringer
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im not sure if they release the data about specific regions, all they say is most of the losses are in the east. Originally Posted by Farora
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2013-05-08, 08:45 PM #92Scarab Lord
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Not surprised at all. Expansion theme wasn't very good, along with LFR and dailies sucking the fun out of the game. Old content was bound to get boring eventually then people realized this.
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2013-05-08, 08:45 PM #93Mechagnome
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lower thnen 3 million and counting probably at least 1000 people quit a day Originally Posted by Farora
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2013-05-08, 08:45 PM #94Deleted
just listened to the call
> starting to show fear for competition
> newer game franchise will occupy playerbase attention and time
> east AND west decline in numbers
> still most popular mmo in history, and will continue to be (apparently)
> further decline is an obvious outcome (due to competition)
> yada yada
This is what happens when you THINK you can have the throne for yourself, and due to blind ignorance, you will eventually get stabbed in the back and lose the throne.
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2013-05-08, 08:46 PM #95Banned
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Remove everything cross-realm, and remove guild levels and guild-recruit bot addons, LFG, LFR goes to the trash bin, restore server communities.
-WoW gains 50 million subs.
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2013-05-08, 08:46 PM #96Void Lord
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Originally Posted by wow
With this attitude we'll eventually die a quicker death.
Nice numbers you got there.ower thnen 3 million and counting probably at least 1000 people quit a day#TeamLegion #UnderEarthofAzerothexpansion plz #Arathor4Alliance #TeamNoBlueHorde
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2013-05-08, 08:46 PM #97Free Food!?!?!
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The drop was larger than I expected, but it's not especially surprising. It's hard to recover from a loss like that of Cataclysm, and as people leave the issue can snowball as some realms end up barren and people have friends leave.
I still love the game, I think Mists is great, and I don't think WoW is dying but it did hit its peak in Wrath.
Hopefully with more promotions and perhaps some much-needed changes to the server transfer cost (or else a overhaul of the whole server system - I'd love to see our characters not permanently tied to the servers), Blizzard can at least get things a little more stable so people don't have to worry about their guilds and friends leaving.
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2013-05-08, 08:46 PM #98Dreadlord
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this will only lead to a Domino effect.
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2013-05-08, 08:46 PM #99Titan
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And what evidence do you have that its GC's fault? I submit that if you cant prove incontrovertibly that its his fault then it isn't, and that you are full of shit. Originally Posted by ihyln
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2013-05-08, 08:46 PM #100Blademaster
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Eve is actually quite popular... Originally Posted by Huntardicus
Funny thing is... 5 PLAYING it is probably a pretty accurate number. The rest of the players probably have no idea what they're doing
This is normal for WoW. Expansion comes out, people come back in mass... they hit max level, do the dungeons/raids and then get bored. Big new fancy patch, they may come back for a bit, or not until the next expansion.
I for one have been unsubbed a few months, just nothing for me to do but PvP. LFR is not fun for me, as it's just a glorified Heroic. PvP just gets old after a while, and dailies are just not what I want to pay my subscription fee to do.
Not to mention there are a TON of other, Free MMO's out there. Sure they're not as good, but they're different. That's pretty much what I am doing. Eventually, i"ll probably resub. I personally hope I don't lol, but I probably will.
My server is pretty dead now, I had to end up moving to Tich. Almost too many people there -_-
