Read that part with 'WoW is dying' again. It's my opinion that if WoW was doing good, it would at least have a somewhat stable player base, but with every few months we see more and more players leaving. I expect it to drop even more at about 5M before it becomes stable. I know that there are still a few million people enjoying WoW, maybe because of nostalgia or because they like what the game became. I will enjoy it too again if the next expansion is good enough.
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But I'm not, so why not spend my time criticizing it? If a guy dares to say anything bad about WoW on these forums, the smallest thing, he will get flamed. This only encourages me in keeping my opinion as it is.
I want to remind you all that this thread is about WoW losing subscribers. Don't you want to accept the other side of the story? From the point of view of someone who left? Then please change the title to 'Let's find excuses to the continuous subscription drop'.
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There really isn't much to discuss as it's the same as any product of any kind following the natural decline in it's cycle.
WoW will continue to lose subs but at slower rates each time for the next few years, what happens after is up to Blizzard.
But don't think the subs will rise bar the short peak during a new major patch/expac this is just a natural graph, nothing new or exciting.
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another 600,000 leaving from may 8th? (79days ago) so ~7500 quitting each day.
tbh that's not as bad as I would of thought considering Age of Wushu being released.
"you can't be serious!!" - yes actually I am.
Wow has always had players leaving but they had new players to balance it. There was a quote somewhere that said like 55 million players have come and gone throughout Wow's career.
I wish Blizzard would state sub numbers based on region so we can really see whether the US/Europe is having issues or if it's truly only APAC. Revenue doesn't tell us much because of different sub models.
Other way around. Most of the older/non asshole players are gone.
Community is declining if you didn't notice, which means we're mostly keeping these bads/douches.
Anyways, I'm kinda shocked that after two expansions, we've dropped, what, almost 5 million subs? I could have sworn at some point in Lich King, we were at 12m.
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.
Going to drop even further, even if 5.4 comes out and expansion is announced.
They are being EXTREMELY casual unfriendly in 5.4. If you played TOO MUCH, you have no new gear you can work for in 5.4, because the upgraded Shado-Pan gear you have now will be better than the gear from SoO LFR.
My point is wow is in its 4th stage of its product lifecycle. Oh you would be wrong the product is in fact in decline. The decline stage is where most of the product class usually dies due to low growth rate in sales. A number of companies share the same market, making it difficult for all entrants to maintain sustainable sales levels. Not only is the efficiency of the company an important factor in the decline, but also the product category itself becomes a factor, as the market may perceive the product as "old" and may not be in demand. It is not always necessary that a product should go through these stages. it depends on the type of product, its competitors, scope of the product, etc.
Wow has more subs than XXXX mmo is not relevant to what I said.
Also AOW and LOL has more players
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