Why do you say they are talking about the death of WoW. Nobody is saying it is dying, that would be a freaking far stretch to to assume that is what they meant, because the death of WoW would have to be them having less than a million players which I think Blizzard will hold well over a couple millions subs fr the next many years.
They may lose like 1-2 million through time/age and shooting their-selves in the foot, but likely will lose 5-6 million through the many big time hitter MMOs that will come out within a year from now.
Even if they lost the highest of numbers from what I said, it would be 11-8million still leaving 3 million. 3 million is far from dead.
WoW is losing popularity and/ its intrigue to its players, that is a fact. Since the game WAS so big and still is losing its popularity will likely not be something to happen quietly in the night as you may wish.
Stop complaining about the topics others wish to discuss, you don't have to read them first off, let alone reply with a negative tone, implying people are bad for posting so.
I disagree with this statement:Generally, I think many people think there is less to do in endgame in Cata than there was in WotLK. While the raids were harder yes, a lot of people became left out due to the collpase of 25-man raiding, and the merging of 10-man and 25-man lookout, even amongs the ones who did get to raid. We know that Blizz got worried about the overall level of participation in raids in Cata (hence the super-nerf to T11 in 4.3 and marketing it under the slogan of "PUGGABLE raids!".Surely there have been more incentives, not less, to say "nothing to do, I should level a new alt" in Cata.Furthermore, new races and new content and quests in Azeroth should encourage levelling.If anything, Cata should have been the "levelling more alts" expansion. If it isn't, something is seriously wrong.People didn't hit the "Nothing left to do on my main character, better reroll!" wall that they encountered in WotLK
aww thats rubbish that im a curse premium member but only available to the us people... boooooooooooooooooooooo
What people don't understand is that "The death of WoW" is an incredibly relative phrase. For instance the death of wow for ME would be when no one is raiding anymore. There still may be 3M + people, but if no one is raiding the game is worthless to me. On a side note i expect GW2 to put a rather large dent in their hardcore player base (If the game lives up to its predecessor at least 3-4 million). They will also lose at least another 300k to D3, but that's their game so it's irrelevant.
I still think the reason a lot of people "don't like the DK as much as they thought" is that the first "Hero" class has been demoted to being just another class.
The "you can do it all" class has now been pigeon-holed into a couple of defined roles - just like every other class.
What's to like about that?
I take some solace in the fact that even though my snarky reply to someone's condescending rhetorical question earned me a 1-week ban, my post was not deleted. I was rather proud of that bit of snark, and I am glad it lives on.
I will never come back to WoW, its a money making machine that bait and switched its original playerbase and then at the first scent of new money dropped every last core belief and value that drew in their initial playerbase and success in order to court and assuage its new instant gratification casual playerbase. Add that to your poll
The amount of people "not playing" anymore really surprises me. I wonder how many of those people are like me. I dont hate blizzard, I like wow a lot, and I love everything about the game, I just played it for a couple years, and the game feels aged to me. nothing good lasts forever, and I felt like it was my time to move on. I didn't come to a definitive point where I was like "IM DONE WITH THIS GAME SCREW IT" I just didn't log on one day, and haven't been on in 6 months. Still very excited about everything blizzard does, and I still keep up on everything that goes on in wow, i just don't pour anymore time into it.
Yes, in a watered down fashion from what Wrath introduced them as. From 3 to 1 tanking specs, and 3 to 2 dps specs is a downgrade. Inb4 the 'it was impossible to balance, its better this way' crowd - I will make no mention of which is better, as that IMO is more about perception and opinion.
What people seem to forget about the statistic is that it's a PERCENTAGE and it goes from those that leveled to 80 to 85, so basicly the amount of level 85 DKs we see now is 25.58% of the total DKs at level 80.
My DK is only level 71....therefor your statement is flawed.Death Knight is the least leveled class because everyone leveled one to 80 during WotLK to be one of the cool kids. Including a fair amount of people who ended up not liking it.
People didn't hit the "Nothing left to do on my main character, better reroll!" wall that they encountered in WotLK, raids were properly balanced and people didn't spend their first months steamrolling Naxxramas.
I dont agree with this.
Im guilty of lvling a dk to 80 and not touching him in cata
I still read MMO but quit WoW. Im here cause of Boubouille. Boubouille is awesome! Oh, and Chaud does good as well.
reported for blasphamy!I'm not going anywhere, just trying to teach chaud to be as smart as me.
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I haven't played WoW in a good amount of time, and don't plan to go back. Currently looking forward to either SWTOR or GW2 (or both) depending on how good they are. But I'm done with WoW entirely.