Tbf WH:O was a very accessible game as well. It's still in my hall of Fame as my all time favourite MMO. It's main issue was EA being greedy, rushing it out with too many bugs and the game losing a foothold with the community due to People retreating straight back to other MMO's without the bugs. It was a fast death of it's own making
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It can when even at it's lowest Subs it is still the most subbed game of it's Genre.
Blizzard has said "Millions" of players have come back to try Classic. Playing Classic requires a Sub. Square-Enix's last holdings report had all Final Fantasy Online games hovering around 1 million. ESO isn't near either of these numbers.
Quite literally the closest MMO to WoW is OSRS.
There is a very informative video about that game. I'll link it here
It's quite detailed. It's where I've gotten a lot of my information for other MMO's of the time.
Steamers/Influencers
Its just one of the unique and very well executed properties of WoW. I didnt play much in WoD, but was online almost every day just playing with my UIs.
To correct you, WoW had OVER 12.1 Million subscribers world wide, and currently has more people on twitch than your second false number - and twitch is so skewed I can't even begin to describe it. I don't watch twitch but during big events or maybe once a month (I DO however watch youtube highlights weekly) - not to mention classic bringing a TON of new or old players back into the fold, if at least temporarily.. even big named streamers were playing classic for the first few weeks..
So yeah it's pretty popular for an almosssssst 15 year old game (Halo 2 launched with WoW.. Halo 2 was buried in 2009.. when they took the servers offline and roasted that main stream legend so...)
This is VERY true, and it's something we only come to appreciate when we actually try some other mmorpg games. You can't customize shit in them. Even if the devs try to give you lots of freedom with your UI, there's only as much you can do without outside apps/addons.
Also have to agree on one of the other comments here: the responsiveness and fluidity of input in WoW is second to none. I recently had an almost month-long venture in FF14 and in the end left it because of how clunky the combat felt. For some reason no other game seems to be able to reproduce the feeling we have in wow.
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I agree. It is very popular for that. The addons won't make you stay on the game, but boy will they sure draw you into it.
Addons are just a way to put the work on the players in order to have a decent UI so that devs don't have to develop it.
Everytime I go into threads like this hoping to find an actual new insight, a reason no one thought about, but makes sense, and every time I am disappointed. No one plays a game because of the addons. They are a bonus, nothing more. No one thinks 'meh, this game sucks, but I'll play it because the addons are stellar!'.