Prediction: This year WoW will be huge.

[BenBos]

I predicted many things about Blizzard in the past.

Like Hearthstone bringing in 200-400 million dollars yearly before it even got launched.
Like HS becoming rather trashy because of the RNG and so it would suffer in the future, and being taken over by Candy Crash money making.
Like Diablo 3 becoming meaningless for most players without trade and so it was dying... until this aweful head developper and successor to Wilson finally got fired.

Well after some gloomy predictions, I now declare that WoW will be hot again during late summer and through the winter.

The reason is the movie of course: HATED by many but a huge attraction pool to "play the game again".

Bandwagons do exist.

No wonder with all the other thrash that Blizzard launches these days.

Welcome back. I just hope Blizzard doesn't fall into the trap of announcing subs again.

[Deleted]

You're wrong. People that are going to see the movie are a majority of players or former players. WoW has a bad reputation, it's know as THE nolife game, just for this reason non-players won't see it.

[Accendor]

Movie will have nothing to do with ingame development.

[Rafoel]

Yes, WoW will be huge...

for 1 month.

And then people will leave, like they did in WoD.


P.S. Assuming they will actually manage to log in, unlike in WoD.

[Deleted]

Well, I also expect subscriptions to rise -- but with a new expansion to be released this is fairly normal. It will be hard to estimate whether how that rise was affected by the movie.

The real question for me is: in summer 2017, how many of those subs will still be here?

[Pull My Finger]

Phew. Reading the OP felt like someone farting in a plastic cup. Random, unnecessary, nasty - but for some reason someone did it.

[Deleted]

You're wrong. People that are going to see the movie are a majority of players or former players. WoW has a bad reputation, it's know as THE nolife game, just for this reason non-players won't see it.

This is probably what deters most people who think of playing WoW. With all the get a life comments people make as soon as they hear the name World of Warcraft. Gaming is more mainstream then ever but that's mostly just games like CoD, GTA and Battlefield.

[BenBos]

You're wrong. People that are going to see the movie are a majority of players or former players. WoW has a bad reputation, it's know as THE nolife game, just for this reason non-players won't see it.

As there were a total of 100 million (ex)players announced 2.5 years ago worldwide, I guess you just confirmed what I wrote in my title.

Will they ALL come back. Nope, but some will. Let's say 10%.

To the others: I didn't predict anything for 2017.

I spoke for 2016 as a commercial success

[rda]

Yes, WoW will be huge...

for 1 month.

And then people will leave, like they did in WoD.

Exactly this.

[BenBos]

Phew. Reading the OP felt like someone farting in a plastic cup. Random, unnecessary, nasty - but for some reason someone did it.

That was the exact same reaction I got when I predicted HS would go into the 200-400 million dollars revenue range one year before it was officially launched.

And yep RDA was one of these dudes. He just replied ... And got owned again.

So simple. Well I can't help it either if some people are stupid.

[rda]

That was the exact same reaction I got when I predicted HS would go into the 200-400 million dollars revenue range one year before it was officially launched.

And yep RDA was one of these dudes. He just replied ... And got owned again.

So simple.

Find my statement that was proven incorrect as you say then. I don't mean to say I am never wrong, especially in predictions, but you paint it as some colossal mistake yet I am not sure if I made any.

[Pull My Finger]

That was the exact same reaction I got when I predicted HS woukd go into the 200-400 million dollars revenue range one year before it was officially launched.

Man, now that was quite the Nostradamus-worthy "prediction". A tiny bit unprecise perhaps, but then again, 100% more or less, and what are measly 200 millions anyway - let's not get hung up on details!

But you're right about rda though, he does got owned all the time.

[Dhrizzle]

You're wrong. People that are going to see the movie are a majority of players or former players. WoW has a bad reputation, it's know as THE nolife game, just for this reason non-players won't see it.

Games like Destiny and The Division have made no-life games cool, whilst Game of Thrones has elevated swords-and-sorcery. WoW's basic mechanics and lack of edginess (and boob's) will still keep it from going truly mainstream but its perception is nowhere near as negative as it was a dozen years ago.

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You're wrong. People that are going to see the movie are a majority of players or former players. WoW has a bad reputation, it's know as THE nolife game, just for this reason non-players won't see it.

Games like Destiny and The Division have made no-life games cool, whilst Game of Thrones has elevated swords-and-sorcery. WoW's basic mechanics and lack of edginess (and boob's) will still keep it from going truly mainstream but its perception is nowhere near as negative as it was a dozen years ago.

[TheVaryag]

I predicted many things about Blizzard in the past.

Like Hearthstone bringing in 200-400 million dollars yearly before it even got launched.
Like HS becoming rather trashy because of the RNG and so it would suffer in the future, and being taken over by Candy Crash money making.
Like Diablo 3 becoming meaningless for most players without trade and so it was dying... until this aweful head developper and successor to Wilson finally got fired.

Well after some gloomy predictions, I now declare that WoW will be hot again during late summer and through the winter.

The reason is the movie of course: HATED by many but a huge attraction pool to "play the game again".

Bandwagons do exist.

No wonder with all the other thrash that Blizzard launches these days.

Welcome back. I just hope Blizzard doesn't fall into the trap of announcing subs again.

Just to mention, after like 2 months after Legion the subs will be as low as they are now... WoW Expansions that they're making lately just don't cut It, and I don't see any long term reason to stay on WoW lately even with Legion coming. Especially If they'll just keep banning us left and right for no reason (Disclaimer: I'm not one of the bot-users)

[Eleccybubb]

Just to mention, after like 2 months after Legion the subs will be as low as they are now... WoW Expansions that they're making lately just don't cut It, and I don't see any long term reason to stay on WoW lately even with Legion coming. Especially If they'll just keep banning us left and right for no reason (Disclaimer: I'm not one of the bot-users)

Correct you are not. You got banned because you were account sharing... or was it you got hacked?

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...8#post33616358

Also Ben a game being trash is entirely based around opinion. Fact is the game is a success both playerbase wise and financially. Of course WoW will be hot during the summer it has a huge expansion coming but they need to basically not have another WoD and keep content engaging so that people want to stay.