Originally Posted by
det
Nice read. But I don't think you have to be a subscriber to have these opinions and they don't become more or less valid if you are. That said, when a game designer or developer speaks up about WoW, that is when I get interested.
At the end of the day, very, very few on these forums (or any forum) are that - and neither do they gather or have data like Blizzard does. Yes I hear you say "I don't have to be a cook to know if food tastes good or bad", but just with cooking it is about taste. Some people love snails, others haggis, some hamburgers and even about hamburgers you can go between a 1 dollar McDonnalds Hamburger and a 25 dollar luxusburger in a restaurant. And eventhen, some will prefer the 1 dollar burger
So...it is all cool and well to have an opinion if the game goes in the proper direction or not, if sub loss can be stopped and what is the reason for it. At the end of the day, not even other studios with much bigger franchises behind them (SW or LotR) could even scratch at WoWs success or attract as many players (initially, no idea how many play SW now that it is F2p)
We can get 100 posters in here and get 100 different opinions. And every one of them is probably as valid and as well argued as the other, all of them have one thing in common: They are made by fand or non-fans without any real data or understanding of the process of designing and maintaining a multi million player game.