In my guild, we used to be about, 30+ in Wrath online most of the time, in cata, 15+ (We became a 10 man guild with some socials and backups). Now..... Im lonely, No-one has left (Cept one, God damn it Lee), Just no-one can be bothered anymore.
Alot of the other guilds are fine tho.. by the looks of it...
Doomahmmer - EU Alliance
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Chromaggus- Alliance
DEAD. Very dead.
Kil'Jaeden- Alliance
Quite lively, no issues.
This is the same for my guild. We had 2 hard mode bosses on farm and were on our third when everyone just stopped showing up. Now we are no longer a progression guild. It's not just Rift or other games that are pulling long time players away. It's also the horrific community and the fact that reusing old content leaves an awful taste in some peoples mouths. I personally don't look forward to anything Blizzard is doing besides Diablo 3.
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ahhh the sound of a true wwow fanboi... "I know everyone on my server and none have left"..
Tbh I dont really know about your server as much as you dont know about mine.. but i have real id that has more people offline for over 30 days more than people in less than 10 days. I have seen the most active guilds fold and crumble with nly the odd one or two hanging about.. I have seen the ah go from being so packed you could barely see the auctioneers to where theres at most 5-6 people in there (mobile ah has a lot to do with that) but in general less and less people are around on a daily basis.
No one talks about where they go.. Rift didnt even come up til fanbois talk about it as you seem to hate it so much (probably because it is the biggest challenge to your precious atm even then its not that great of a challenge) but probably they are having their break playing other games and waiting for either future patches or other games.
Without a doubt the pops are declining. Whether blizzard see this through the books or not, its a tend that started when the devs got out of control.
Tbh Blizzard are advertising for testers and devs for balance for raids... is this because the ones they had before have walked out due to the constant nerfing of the content they tested and balanced?
I would LOVE to see where you saw this. Blizz usually makes a huge deal when they reach a new milestone in active subs. Wasn't it up to like 12 million in LK? I remember it being all over their website.
Seriously, please show me this, because I think you're bullshitting. Not trying to be confrontational, I just wanna see.
everyone in my server left for Rift imo
US - Gnomer - Alliance. Trade chat is less busy than ever, over the past week my guild has been less active. I think its pre patch jitters and easter.
Darkspear EU, horde.
Yes.
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my eu server (horde side) - I swear is busier now than it was in wrath, allaince side on my server was chocablock during wrath and horde side was nice a quiet except for a few hardcore/semi guilds - now the trade chat is totally spammed with new guilds emerging and org is always swarming at every hour
In wrath - on horde side, it was difficult to pug anything - it was only guild runs - every wednesday there was maybe 1 25man voa and then a ten man advertised in trade - Now it never stops
so atleast from my experience Cata has increased the population - i cant speak of what its like on allaince
People who are unhappy with the game are hoping there are more people leaving than actually are. To prove a point, I was looking in one of the "Are you quitting?" threads, and looked up some posts of people that said they were. And guess what? Alot of those same people said the same thing in the same type of threads several months ago. Many people that say they quit actually don't. People just want the game the way they want it.
I have no idea; I stopped playing in early february.
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There is no exodus.
Just because most people play Dps, or Derps per second, and think 45 mins in line to run pug's means Exodus.
Im just being brutally honest, the game is not over not dying not bleeding, and no one is abandoning ship.
After 6 years of time into the game 12million people only goof off in other mmo's you should see the trade chat of other games
Aion rift etc all talk about wow this wow that, 1 in 100 people gets mad about it when you say its name because he was so sure the new game would kill wow he deleted his toon lol.
I play on Fenris-Horde, the server has been pretty dead lately. In the past 2 months about 10 of my friends have stopped playing. Most of the ones that do still play only log on about 6 hours per week.