I am coming back here to gloat when Subs Rise
@Ghostcrawler:Some advice: [My pet issue] is why there were sub losses is one of the weaker arguments players use. Players don't have that data.
With the annual pass being a big success and the success of 4.3 i bet on a slight gain in player numbers for Q4.
They already killed the scroll of resurrection because people could come back and get everything done (including the last boss of the expansion) on the free month.
I'm predicting bigger losses than last quarter. I hope I'm wrong.
I resubbed after I decided swtor wasn't the game for me, this after having been unsubbed for 10 months. I assume there are more people like me.
If all the expert economists, investors and game designers on mmo-champ actually applied their brilliance elsewhere I feel like the economy would fix itself based off AAA game sales alone. Alas, forums are a much better use of their obviously ample talents.
To contribute something useful, I figure it'll be more toward a smallish loss. The end, however, is not yet in sight. I feel like in a few years there will be a lot of people embarrassed by how wrong they were about WoW dying. But then again I'm sure lots of them will pretend they knew all along.
Last edited by AttaBoyTroy; 2012-02-09 at 07:29 PM.
can you reference a citation during wotlk late 2010 about a sub drop? I am aware of nothing 11.5m every time they mentioned it.
TBC, of course, hit an all-time-high of 11m in oct 2008, contrary to your assertion.
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smart posters know their history - old mmo's don't die, they just fade away towards a lower sustainable sub base.
Wasn't the world event in Oct 08 though? That was totally worth subbing for.
MOP seems to be getting significantly more hate than any of the previous expansions though, it might not be as big a sub restorer as previous ones were.