We're doomed...I'd almost wish Ghostcrawler back at this point. I cannot believe how oblivious this guy is to the fact that the pvp crowd is dying. How you can be happy about that is beyond me. Several I know have unsubbed and most of the larger twitch pvp players have moved on. Fix the pvp, or your community is done.are you happy with the current state of pvp? I hope ill get an honest answer.
Happy but not satisfied. We can always do better. (holinka)
Adding in a post I made below as it covers most of my points. Unfortunately I'm at work or I'd have gone into further detail:
First, PLEASE DO NOT MAKE THIS A PVP vs. PVE THREAD.
Mods, please close this thread if it continues down that path.
Second, let's discuss a few points that lead to me making a "PvP community is dying" thread.
WoW PvP has always played second fiddle to PvE. That's perfectly fine and understandable. Currently, worldwide there are 804,196 players above 1800mmr. That puts the pvp player base at an estimated 1.5 million-2.5 million (source/estimates come from: http://www.worldofwargraphs.com/) This means that about 20% of WoW's population is dedicated to PvP. While that's not a large portion that's still nearly 2 million or more players that may end up dropping the game flat out. If all of those people stopped their sub (realistically this won't happen, but theoretically speaking) that's a $30,000,000 loss. No company, nor its shareholders will be ok with that. The PvP community is still a huge part of WoW whether you like it or not.
As for the state of pvp, it's just simply broken. While the mechanics and various aspects may be in a good state the balance of classes is atrocious. We have players like Cdew, Sodapoppin, Hotted, Watchmeblink, and many others that state the game is completely broken and not fun at this point. I watched Cdew do games on his warrior last night and each game was so painfully slow. There were 2 second windows, which unless they burst down their target it was over. They were playing a terrible comp, but at the same time it showed just how bad pvp had become. While I do enjoy longer fights I am almost missing the days of burst comps just for the fact that I wasn't spending 15-20 minutes per game hoping to god someone fucks up. Self healing on certain classes is way too damn high, healing in general needs to be toned down on some classes while slightly buffing others, and the burst ability on some classes compared to other DPS is completely unbalanced. Right now the game is just not fun, and it looks like Blizzard's town retard Holinka just doesn't understand that, and worse he seems happy about it.
I really feel overall WoD was a fuck up. The garrison has far too much focus and it shows in every other aspect of the game. Garrisons should have been about sending you out into the world to do missions, while your followers did the work at the garrison. Instead I'm suck being the gardener and lands keeper while all my followers go do epic missions for me. Ashran I feel has come along nicely, but I really don't care to spend hours upon hours in there. I was always a player that enjoyed arenas more than BGs. Let's not even mention the fact that there were no new arenas or BGs in this xpac, and there are no plans to add any in AFAIK. The fact is, even PvE players are complaining that this xpac lacks content. The biggest worry out of all of this is that it seems Blizzard has nothing further planned past 6.2, so the question I'm left asking is what exactly is the point in continuing to play?