I can't wait until 3-4 years from now when they post something similar while WoW is still going strong and people are regurgitating that the game is dea....
Wait a minute, I can do that now...
WoW is still on top. I knew it!
I can't wait until 3-4 years from now when they post something similar while WoW is still going strong and people are regurgitating that the game is dea....
Wait a minute, I can do that now...
WoW is still on top. I knew it!
8.3 million! and this is all the content we get?
And this is BEFORE the big end of expansion content drought (unless the next expansion is coming a lot sooner than we think.)
"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?"
casuals aka scrubs aka whiners aka wrath babies ruined this game and we all know it, hopefully blizzard realized this by now as well and they wont fuck it up in TITAN as they did with WoW. Regardless, its amazing that 8 year old MMO has 8.3 mil subs.
And what logic/evidence do you have to support that? Just because WoW is that way currently? Did you not read my post... the entire dev team was moved from WoW to titan... meaning what ever game you fell in love with during vanilla/TBC... those same creators are on Titan, attempting to make it just as good as WoW was in its prime or even better.
Most likely the wisest Enhancement Shaman.
"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?"
Maybe for people living in their mom's basement, but I quit when I realized that I couldn't run LFR every week and stay a reasonable distance behind no lifers. Mostly due to the rep grind and rep requirements for gear. Between sports, work, real life and wanting to play at least a few other game I can't commit the minimum time required to see the content.
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Last edited by Darsithis; 2013-05-09 at 07:19 PM.
1.3mill was double of what i expected it would be.
Seems with each new smaller sizes mmos, WOW bleeds. Wonder what will happen when Teso, FFXIV ARR, Wildstar releases. FFXIV looks to become my main go to mmo with all the nice features i have seen it will include. Their housing system looks really cool, and crafters and gathering classes seems to be a big part of the game unlike just pure statbonuses as wows professions.
Its also funny people say most subs lost was china and there still is 8.3. But if chinese subs are so worthless, how many subscribers is there in EU/US then? If its only 1 mill in each, then the other "failed" mmos with 500k - 2mill are not that far behind WOW.
And there seems to be a lot of servers with extremely low pops. I gave wow up due to low pop and friends quitting, and instead of spending 25usd x 4 character to move them to a more high pop server. I spent 19.99usd and bought FFXIV and i loved it despite it own flaws because the server community was amazing and enough fun stuff to keep me happy.
Last edited by Kenshin; 2013-05-09 at 03:58 PM.
I droped it on January, so I guess I'm part of that statistic
1. Asia is where most of these subscriptions have been lost. They burn threw content at double the rate due to 2 weekly resets. And the MMO market in Asia is HUGE , they have 5-10 mmos that are exactly like World of Warcraft but F2P or a lot cheaper and easier to get a hold of.
2. If you look at there quarterly earnings for WoW they actually went up since Q1 of 2012 so there may be a uptick in US subscriptions and a down tick in Asian.
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I quit long ago from a mix of reasons from natural boredom to having little time, but its always funny to see that even if they lower the bar so low that you are scraping the scum of the barrel that casuals will still not buy into the model and blame it on having a life. If you want to run a travesty like lfr all you need is a few hours out of the week. This is nothing like old wow.
You are being fooled by looking at GAAP numbers. This is misleading, because under GAAP the $$$ injection from all the box sales/downloads back at MoP release is taken over several quarters. So Q1 2013 is artificially inflated compared to Q1 2012.
Non-GAAP numbers, which don't do this, show a 22% decline in "Online subscription" revenue from Q1 2012 to Q1 2013.
"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?"
See... this is the issue with your type of people... you claim that people have been saying WoW is dying since the beginning... maybe... but that group wasn't nearly as big as it is now... and the arguments that they made back then were probably over stupid things... whereas now I could make countless arguments about how the quality in the game has declined.
Most likely the wisest Enhancement Shaman.
I did the raider life. A non-hardcore raiding schedule is 7h30pm to 10h30 PM, three nights a week. I have to leave for work at 7h30AM and get back around 6h30pm. That means that for these three days I do nothing except sleep, go to work, play and then go to sleep. And this is just to be in a middle of the pack raiding guild.
That's not a way to live, and god forbid the people that do it six days a week. They're missing out on a lot of great things in life, and a lot of great video games.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
it's not that much bigger as it is louder and your arguments aren't any smarter than they were from other doomsayers back then
but here's an idea, you go play a game that you like, while those of us who still enjoy wow continue to play it, none of us is hating on your games, so why are you so keen on hating on wow, saying it's dying and getting so irritated when someone doesn't share your point of view