90-100 heirlooms are just placeholder numbers.
90-100 heirlooms are just placeholder numbers.
Sorry to burst your bubble but this is not a hobby or fan-project, this is a business and if it does not pay the bills it stops. People need to feed their families working for a gaming company. Passion is needed to create a good game, but passion is nothing without sales.
Atoms are liars, they make up everything!
That's rubbish, You have zero idea what you're talking about, at the current rate of sub decline the game will still have millions of players after 2 expacs, Just because the last few quarters have been dropping doesn't mean we will have less than a million left after a couple expacs, it means as the expac has gone on, people have left, which you know, happens.
Doomsayers get more clueless every day.
Or just needed for 2 reasons.
Reason 1: Item Squish. They could use Level 100 as the new base for items and it's so distant from level 90 no old level 90 loot even legendary will be useful.
Reason 2: Talent System. If they want to add 2 new talents they need level 100 since the system is using 5-level steps.
Atoms are liars, they make up everything!
Fun and profit go hand in hand much like keeping players happy while making a profit. Where do you get the idea that Blizzard only supports Wow because of profit? Profit is what keeps this game and other Blizzard games going so it is mind boggling that people get so butthurt over it. The simple fact of the matter is, Blizzard is continuing to support the game because players are stil having fun with it and it honest to god is just that simple. Outside of these forums most people who play Wow do so because they like it not because they hate the game and are so obsessed that they can't let it go.
It doesn't matter if companies are greedy or not, they just flat out won't make a profit without making a product people actually want. I love how people constantly simultaneously accuse Blizzard of being greedy while also implying they are too inept to actually make a profit. This is just yet another example of a jaded player who is butthurt over the game leaving them behind and that Blizzard has essentially given them all one big "fuck off" while catering to current players and making a profit of it. As far as Activision being greedy goes, they wouldn't continue to make Call of Duty games if players didn't want it. Again keeping customers happy and profit go hand in hand regardless how butthurt you are about it.
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You do realize the item squish is being done because of technical issues right? Blizzard doesn't give a fuck about OCD players who get pissy over the size of their numbers. Quite honestly this is an idiotic reason to quit.
I doubt Blizzard would go 95 next expansion, my money is on 100.
No it doesn't make sense. Not even remotely. For one, most games aren't going exclusively free to play and are using a mixed payment model where both subscription and free to play options are supported while also providing content patches and new expansions. Going free to play doesn't mean there will be no new content. Again look at games like EQ1. It has been free to play for a while and SOE is still making expansions for it. I think most people spouting off nonsense about free to play games haven't even logged into one for at least 2-3 years.
''The game will continue aslong as we have players'' - Greg Street aka mr. Ghostcrawler
I'm sorry but you were talking to some people that were convinced of something? Blizzard will keep making expansions as long as it's profitable, that's all there is to it really.
They have around 7,5 million subs now. Even if they had 1 million subs it would probably still be profitable. So I see more than 2 expansions coming as 1 million is a number they won't hit anytime soon.
Yes lets stop making money... ./end sarcasm, dude you are way to naive if you believe people like that :P If anything its more possible that the next expansion will be a 10 lvl expansion (and not even close to being the last one for that matter).
Again if it wasn't for the motivation for profit, we wouldn't have any Blizzard games at all. Also it isn't just American companies who exist to make a profit so really just give it a fucking rest. Like I have said before, making customers happy and profit go hand in hand. You don't have one without the other and because of that Blizzard is highly motivated to do whatever they can to keep people happy and playing their games which is good for both gamers and Blizzard's future with existing franchises and new franchises. The only people who seem to have a problem with this are the usual malcontents on these forums who can't comprehend that Wow can continue to be profitable and successful without them.
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For some reason every company is allowed to make money except for Blizzard. It is one of many examples of how hypocritical people here can be all for the sake of bashing Blizzard and Wow.
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And yet the OP received no infraction for not only posting a thread with a misleading title and posting absolute nonsense that is at best misinformed and at worst, blatant trolling. I refuse to believe for a second that someone with nearly 1000 posts hasn't seen any of the blue tweets, blue posts, and developer interviews posted here that have confirmed multiple times that 100 is just a number and they are planning at least another 4-5 expansions. As usual the mods would rather waste time handing out infractions rather than nipping the problem in the bud by closing the thread.
OP isn't saying anything is confirmed or that WoW is ending, he is simply asking.
You guys need to chill out and think before grabbing those pitchforks.