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  1. #201
    Quote Originally Posted by Ealyssa View Post
    Today I learned that a drought start the day a patch is released...

    Raid gonna release somewhere mid january, Shadowland will land in august-september as always. It's a pefectly fine schedule.
    again .

    blizzard devs confirmed in intervies that Shadowlands will land december 2020/january 2021.

  2. #202
    You know that the "casual" player base might not even have bought BFA at this point.. Plenty of them are lvling alts, Farming mounts and transmogg or doing pet battles.

    The current expansion let alone the current expansion end game is not something "Casuals" care about.

  3. #203
    I assume like every other last patch blizzard expect a portion of the playerbase to drop off and come back next expo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by A Chozo View Post
    As with any other WoW patch, the casual playerbase will complete whatever content that exists once then let their monthly sub expire. They'll go play another game or do something else.

    Happens all the time in mmorpgs.
    that didn't happen first 6 years...
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    Quote Originally Posted by sam86 View Post
    that didn't happen first 6 years...
    It did. And in the very first years, they left even before finishing leveling.

  6. #206
    Quote Originally Posted by Shnider View Post
    Entitlement alert. You can simply unsubscribe until expansion release.

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    May I see the source please?
    just watch one of multiple post blizzcon videos made by youtubers who actually interviewed devs.

    not gonna promote any channels here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shnider View Post
    No it won't. it's part of the MMO cycle. everyone here & at blizzard know that content drought are inevitable to make expansions. no damage here, just part of the subscription cycle.
    It didn't used to be part of the MMO cycle. Subs grew dramatically under Vanilla and BC, and held steady throughout Wrath. This whole "subscription cycle" is nothing more than corporate PR on Blizz's part to excuse the fact that there is less and less to do in Retail in each expansion.

    In fact, if you take the time to go read what Blizz stated 10+ years ago, the whole point of a subscription fee is because they were supposed to be providing content the whole time...especially when Blizz was originally challenged on maintaining subscription fees in the face of MMORPGs such as Guild Wars 2.

    Stop uncritically accepting Blizz PR.

  8. #208
    it'll be just like every other expansion. there will always be guilds pushing progression. No matter what timeframe within said patch.

    i see the same shit every expansion and have become immune to it. if you play the game to focus on the aspects you don't like, then you'll only play that version of the game. if you play the game you like within it's core, then focus on that. I can find a million reasons to hate the way I play the game if I look hard enough and ask enough people to explain to me why I'm wrong about it.

    The fact is, I'm not controlled by the herd. You could all tell me the way I wondering in the game, a loner, is bad for the overall game. And yet, I wouldn't care because I enjoy playing the game as such. It's more freedom to me to play the aspects I enjoy than to be prisoner to the parts I don't like.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kamuimac View Post
    just watch one of multiple post blizzcon videos made by youtubers who actually interviewed devs.

    not gonna promote any channels here.
    haha. this makes no sense. mention them but won't actually source your findings? this is like an atheist saying they don't believe in anything, when not believing is their belief.

    You promoted it, but you think you saved face by not directly sourcing your reasoning. If it was legit, MMO-Champ covered it, yet you can't even do that.

    don't put your 2 cents worth in if you can't actually stand on the ground in which you speak from.

  9. #209
    It won't keep casuals occupied for 9+ months. Not many patches have, because the ones playing and staying were going to do that anyways, regardless of what new content came by to change things up. Those coming back for just 8.3 will probably be back for a month or two like normal, then waiting for 8.3.5 to see if it's worth resubbing for, then either waiting for the 9.0 pre-patch, or release to repeat this process.

    Not really much to say about this. Even Blizzard is struggling to keep people playing despite inflating the playtime with systems they keep introducing, as eventually you're still going to (soft) cap out and have a roadblock before the next patch / expansion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shnider View Post
    May I see the source please?
    You really want to see his ass?

    2021 was just pure speculation from Preach, because it's clear that devs have no idea how many systems will work yet.

  11. #211
    Quote Originally Posted by Xaviaton View Post
    I believe the current consensus is that we will have 8.3(.5) for more than 10 months (Early Jan - Late Nov).
    I think Blizzard has come to expect a significant drop-off in the last 4-5 months of the expansion as part of their expansion cycle at this point. Assuming that 9.0 arrives some time in November, they can probably convince people to subscribe another month before Shadowlands. The addition of 8.3.5 sometime in April or May might keep people in. Some people might stick around for Classic or level alts and whatnot in the middle-period downtime, or just take the summer off. With this time they also keep the "6-month sub" base from unsubbing. While I do believe they want to produce good content I sincerely doubt they themselves think that the 8.3 content will keep people entertained for the full end-of-expansion cycle, which the final patch rarely does. The only thing that kept Legion going for me in this period was alt-leveling for mage-tower but I doubt something equally fun/time consuming/rewarding will be included in 8.3.
    I think November for the launch is a bit late. The last two expansions came out in August. Not to mention as you said we have 8.3, possibly 8.3.5, and probably a 9.0 prepatch. So they'll be trickling in more content over that drought. I'd assume 9.0 prepatch will include the new DK start.

  12. #212
    It won't keep everyone occupied. But Blizzard can do little about that. Too much content and people would still complain.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shnider View Post
    He said devs confirmed it, I wanna see that.
    Oh you know they didn't, just ignore him. If devs would utter a word about release date, you would hear that here or wowhead, not from random forum troll.

  14. #214
    The amount of casual content seems pretty comparable to every other expansion save Legion. And most of Legion's content revolved around attempting the Mage Tower with various alts.

  15. #215
    As with all final patches? It won't. I don't think there can be any patch that can keep all players occupied for so long, I think Blizzard just aims to minimize the drought.

  16. #216
    horrific visions is a cool idea, i don't think its enough to entice me to return to BFA though. However, the raid does look pretty cool. I'm over BFA, its WoD 2.0 for me and I played a lot more of WoD

  17. #217
    Quote Originally Posted by Dracullus View Post
    Oh you know they didn't, just ignore him. If devs would utter a word about release date, you would hear that here or wowhead, not from random forum troll.
    just dont come crying when it wont be out in till december

    if you dont want to belive be my guest /shrug

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    Quote Originally Posted by kamuimac View Post
    blizzard devs confirmed in intervies that Shadowlands will land december 2020/january 2021.
    That's just plain lie... They never said so.

    Imagine your life being such a pathetic waste the only thing left is lying on video games forum... I trully feel sorry for you.
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    nazi is not the abbreviation of national socialism....
    When googling 4 letters is asking too much fact-checking.

  19. #219
    Quote Originally Posted by Xemioza View Post
    There are hundreds things to do in WoW. Made a list in previous post, if you actually like the game you wont get bored. Ofc you dont play 18h a day....
    Hundreds of things to do but is any of them actually meaningful or progressive in any way?. I got all the raid gear necessary already, maxed out the necklace and got all the essences. What else is there?, pointless stuff like farming vanities I will never use?.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ImpalerEU View Post
    Hundreds of things to do but is any of them actually meaningful or progressive in any way?. I got all the raid gear necessary already, maxed out the necklace and got all the essences. What else is there?, pointless stuff like farming vanities I will never use?.
    Why even play the game at all then? What use does it have raiding with friends and having a good time when the gear from the raid is going ot be obsolete a year from now anyways? And what is the point of farming mounts and feeling a sense of achievement from that? It is just numbers on the screen, hardly a point ot anything in this video game when you could be spending all day farming the food you need to survive, or hunting a deer to feed you and keep you warm in winter with its fur.
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