Still wondering why I play this game.
I'm a Rogue and I also made a spreadsheet for the Order Hall that is updated for BfA.
So you think there are F2P MMOs making more money than WoW? I'd be curious as to where you saw that info.
Remember - games are made to make money. Whether it is subs, micro transactions, sales, etc... They are all rolled into the total money that a game makes. Ignoring any major ones of them is basically turning a blind eye on the parts you don't want to look at (even though they are generally the most important part).
It's pretty darn obvious considering WoW has been dropping subscribers during all of Cataclysm, and we only, yes only went just above 10 million players again even with the launch of a whole new expansion. I actually expected it to go above 12 million but it seems like the interest is lacking and is only going to continue to drop.
awsome news
An 8 year old game still sells 2.7 million copies in the first week despite the horrible flop of Cata that drove away millions of people? That's successful in my book. And Mists is actually very good, so that may help moving forward.
Last edited by KCguy; 2012-10-04 at 08:51 PM.
2.7 out of 10 mil.
Makes sense why they made a romanticized version of China as their expac.
wow so much bashing in this thread... i think it was pretty obvious that it would sell less than cata considering the dropp/hate it got, and also not suprised it sold less than the other expansions due to the age and as i stated again the dissapointment that cata was. I also doubt that most people who did the anual pass would leave as soon as they can.
Yea ur misinterpreting what im saying. All i said was most of the money in the MMO Market is made through micro transactions. And from that you somehow get me saying that theres a F2P MMO making more money than WoW... Nice very nice. Kay ima try to explain in more words. All of the Non sub based MMO's combined make more total profit than WoW makes off subs. There are more F2P MMO players than there are Sub players. Players spend more money on Micro transactions in a month than a person subbed for a month.
So pls dont misinterpret that.
Back in T11, our rather casual raiding team got through 3/4 of the fights in heroic, and there were even quite a few guilds on our mostly dead server that finished the place. It was a pretty good tier, far better than the other two of cata. Shall see how this new one compares as time goes on.
OT: Still not sure why people care hugely about sales numbers, but it looks like it was about the standard for a WoW expac to me...
That is what I originally thought you meant. Then, when I thought about it, and it's kinda silly to compare 1 game to an entire faction of other games within a genre. Then, claim that where the 1 game makes most of its money should not be payed attention to.
So, I thought that maybe you knew something I didn't (i.e. that there was a F2P game that actually made a ton of money). Apparently I was mistaken.