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.
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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http://youtu.be/x3ejO7Nssj8 7:20+ "Alliance remaining super power", clearly blizz favor horde too much, that they made alliance the super power
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
It won't keep everyone occupied. But Blizzard can do little about that. Too much content and people would still complain.
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.
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.
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
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.
The world revamp dream will never die!