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HOTS was #1 selling PC game of the quarter, with Diablo III still being in the top ten many months after its release. While I didn't like Diablo lack of endgame myself, HOTS is a really really good game. WoW is still the #1 MMO around and they have like 3 new games coming out. I think that Blizzard's future is far from "sketchy".
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Indeed, they need to understand though that after the initial lash... which would last a month at most, people will forget all about the servers merging and will be happy that they have full worlds again. Yes, for that month the forums, both here, on WoW official forums, and other WoW sites, might be filled with "WoW is dieing posts" but... aren't they here now when people see they lost so many players anyway? In fact, the best choice would be to do it right now, since it overlaps with the subscriber losing WoW death comments and in a month both will be gone.
Pretty much the latter. The publicity would be too damaging.
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If you take the Chinese F2P MMOs it wasn't #1 a couple of years ago already. Some of those were already rocking 20+ Mil users. Though it's certainly easier to pull off with Chinese population.
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Aion is the second most successful game at 3 million subs. Aion has a lot less than that these days. Even at it's peak, Aion was no where near 8 million subs.
It's summer. Subs go down in summer as many go outside.
There are tons of games out now, not just MMOs that pull subs away from WoW. This includes Diablo III, a Blizz product.
Blizzard tried to cater the casual since wotlk PROBLEM is a casual jumps from game to game and prefers f2p. IT simply backfired.
lol no, it's not summer, this quarter is first quarter, january-february-march. There was no summer then, there was a lot of snow.
If you go with this argument again, when it will be summer you expect them to what, lose 3 million more? This dumb argument "it's summer" is not good. There were summers during BC, there were summers during Wrath yet the number kept somewhat constant, even growing.
Plus, I hear every quarter some dumb argument like "it's summer" "it's autumn, school starts" "it's winter, people are at their family on holidays" "it's spring, people go to smell the flowers". Yea, you know what, they went to school, smelled flowers, went outside and on family trips during other expansions too so give me a break.
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A lot of WoW's big problems are foundational. Things so fundamental to the game you don't even think about them. How you level, how quests work, how combat works, etc.
And because they are foundational, you are better off making a new game with a new foundation than trying to fix the old one. You can polish and maintain the old game, but it will decline over time. Blizzard is pretty responsive for a company try to satisfy 8 million players, I think WoW will last for many more years. Unless Titan just blows it out of the water and steals all those subscriptions. Heh.