Dear god... some people.
NOTHING is going to be like the glory days of WoW, cause the market is saturated. The numbers will never climb back over 10mil+ and hold for an expansion at that.
Very little will seem "new and exciting" after 9 YEARS of the same game. Anything that isn't spot-on PERFECT to everyone's needs is "failed content by XXXX XXXXX, they need to be fired". Anything that is what the playerbase asks for ("We want TBC-like heroics!" ring a bell? Yeah, that appeased a SMALL percent of the playerbase in Cataclysm, and pissed off the majority), is usually rehashed, retooled, nostalgia-influenced features, not NEW stuff.
It is going to be a different landscape without Mr Street involved, and he's been part of World of Warcraft, in some capacity, since it started.
Games are not necessarily "easier" today. You are just a better player.
It takes more now to impress many gamers than it did 2-5 years ago, because so much has already been seen and done.
Many players expect to be wow'd with every release of a beloved franchise.
These are generally NOT the fault of the developers, but the fault of many players over-hyping and/or setting expectations too high.
Most people I know hate Ghostcrawler for no apparent reason.
In fact one guy in my guild thought he was Chris Metzen. That's how silly it was.
Wish him all the best in the future, the person taking over is going to have his work cut out for him...
Lol. No, he wasn't.
Like most of the critics, you can't even get a basic fact right.
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Because if a 10 year old game doesn't keep adding subscriptions from now to the end of eternity... heads must roll!
I wonder how many film studio executives have been fired now that The Avengers is no longer #1 at the box office?
Help control the population. Have your blood elf spayed or neutered.
I actually liked the guy. Watched his tweets almost daily - he might have done mistakes, but I never saw someone so focused on their work and the community.
WoW has grown stale and needs some fresh ideas. So nothing against GC, but I think this is a good thing.
Blizzard isn't dumb enough to bet the company's long-term future on WoW. Why are so many forum posters of this mind? Are you naive enough to think that this game is supposed to last for a hundred years or something, and that the company's management or investors believe this? If so, we'd see a lot more negative stock market reaction when WoW sub drops are announced.
Hearthstone, D3 expansion, Heroes of the Storm. These are the short-term options Blizzard will have.
Help control the population. Have your blood elf spayed or neutered.
I don't think GC had much to do with it one way or another,but just to let you know that isn't a great argument. If you figure nothing GC would work on would have an immediate impact and you look at the year following his entry into the company, we got Wrath and while we did reach peak subscriptions in Wrath, it was a period in WoW where we saw very little real growth. As a reference WoW grew at the rate of 6 million per year for the first year and continued growing at the rate of 2 million per year prior to Wrath, subs in Wrath only grew by 250,000 over 2 years.
Yes the class homogenization system is so much better. Tanks: Active mitigation with different spell names, Healers: aoe heal/single target heal/single target hot but with different spell names, DPS Melee: Rouge/Feral/WW Monk CP with energy while keeping debuff/buffs up etc etc you get the point. So much fun right? Soon enough we can split it up to ranged dps/melee dps/healers and tanks and just pick whatever classes that sims out the highest performance for each role because fuck class uniqueness right?
As for the guy you quoted, all the specs he mentioned where viable in both pve and pvp during TBC. The fact that he even mentions beastmastery hunters in the laughing stock category makes me wonder if he ever played TBC.
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In games, "systems" is essentially the math side.
Yes: class balance, stats and formulas, gameplay mechanics.
No: quests, story, art, sound, music, raids, encounters, game programming/engineering, etc.
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It was a simple retort to someone trying to prove a non-statement with a subscription graph.
But you are correct. And to further the point with your data, that means WoW sub growth had already fallen by 2/3 by the time he joined on.
Not that any of those points has any direct relation to GC. One can interpret the data for or against him based on personal biases.
Help control the population. Have your blood elf spayed or neutered.
I wish him the best, going to be interesting what direction the game takes going forward.
For the night is dark and full of terrors
Woot no more hate on pallys now gc is out of here