Originally Posted by
Iceleaf
Thanks for enforcing my point of Mobas having easier to get into. Thats exactly the point I was saying.
You cannot ignore mobas and only count F2P mmos as direct competition anymore. Thats not how these things work since MMOs are not the huge massive genre anymore. If MMO's were number one genre everyone wanted to get into, you could easily compare just mmos alone.
But now with raise of Mobas, F2P stuff, some raise on FPS games.. WoW doesnt compete with Gw2 for example, it competes with OW, LoL, Dota and whatever is hot right now. LoL players are not exclusively moba players.
People spending time on different games, mostly free, eats up potential players for WoW. Someone investing time and money on LoL skins are more likely to not quit LoL for something like Dota because investment creates bond.