(Made up numbers just for an example)
Let's say 10 million players played during the first month, then every month 1 million players left, Now 8 months in 8 million players have left, But the game still has 2 million left out of the 10 million it started out with.
Now 2 Million is still a whole lot of players, But in perspective, 8 Million players left the game. This is what people meant by "just nostalgia" and "everyone's gonna quit when they remember how bad the game is" the 8 million fall into those 2 quotes.
and again, Just made up numbers, But i hope they gave you some perspective into, that just because it looks like there is a lot of players still in the game, does not mean that most people who did try out classic diden't also leave after a month or 2
If I had to guess classic has about 500k loyal players which is very successful for a game that requires very little Dev time.
There's over 17.000 individual guilds that have killed Nefarian in Classic, if one includes Chinese guilds,, the figures I posted earlier did not include the Chinese, nor did they account for pugs and there many pug raids on retails that clear the content in many ways similar to LFR.
I can easily imagine over 1 million active classic players. Retail wise? I don't know, only that there's fewer players in raidings guilds, far fewer.
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Well from my friend who stopped retail to go to classic, he stopped after about a month because it was getting nearly impossible to find level 60 dungeon groups in a reasonable time. He did notice activity dipping after a few weeks, but most definitely after two months he said there wasn't many people compared to the first weeks. Of course it's anecdotal, but my other friends who play classic have similar stories, but they raid so they are still a bit more active.
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I get what you are trying to say, but it was a huge undertaking to get old WoW working properly on the new Bnet infrastructure. Yes they didn't have to build a gsme from scratch, but very little dev time is disingenuous at best.
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And ot everyone/guild logs in Normal or Heroic. I'm not sure when they started but I don't ever recall logging.
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I always believed the vast majority who logged on to Classic went there to relive some nostalgia or went to see what it was all about since they missed out. We all knew it would start off with a bang because of nostalgia. We also knew it would die down rather quickly and be left with the PS folks, the ones didn't want to do a PS, and a core who really prefer vanilla.
We will never know the real numbers, log sites, census sites, and the like are never accurate. But who cares really? It gets people paying to play which helps out both versions.
Still a ton less dev time than an actual WoW expansion. They likely had 2-3m subs when it launched easy and it dropped after that but seemed kinda slow. They have already made their money on it for sure. Now they are just raking in probably 100m a year for almost nothing.
It's not even out in its entirety yet, and we're in the middle of a pandemic. Of course it wasn't going to be dead within 2 weeks, nor will it probably ever be dead. How populated will the servers be 6 months beyond Naxx release? Nobody can say, and nobody will be able to. TBC will roll around.
But hey, don't let that get in the way of the typical cognitive dissonance that Classic fans tend to deal with, where BfA's far more numerous and higher capacity servers at Full/High (60+ in EU alone) somehow spell "dead gaem" whilst Classic's servers somehow hold 10 million players out of 11 or so...
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Wreaks of irony considering how much Classic players need to make threads talking about how awesome Classic and and how live sucks...don't see tons of Classic suck threads like you do Live sucks. You also don't see people needing to lie about how great Classic is...still see people trying to claim Classic is harder than Live
Also I asked where are all of these people who claimed Classic had millions of subs...that it would destroy Live and never lose any subs...they're all quiet I noticed.
It went excatly how everyone expected. Big peak at start and then decline until we have low population of fans who keep playing it.
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While i agreed that they probably underestimated the demand at launch (as you conveniently cut out). I really don't think they were that stingy on the servers. As you said yourself: their plan was always to roll out more servers as needed, instead of risking having to many and having to deal with that. so i don't think it's fair to say they needed 5 times the servers they expected.
And ofc right now all servers show healthy population, new content has just released.
All those things were in the works before Classic came out, such as feedback on Class design and a level squish. Also, SL classes will not by any stretch play like they do on Classic. In fact, most players seem to want a return to WOTLK or MoP class gameplay.
Just as a counterweight.
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"My name is Legion: for we are many." - Mark 5:9
My characters :3
Boosting requires a willing and capable group, not everybody has access to it. I'm not sure about Classic, but in Vanilla there were no repeatable quests or content designed at earning gold. Playing an alt was not only a time-consuming venture, but in many cases meant you had to stop progressing/gathering on your main - because characters were not maxed out in a week or two TBC was much better thanks to flying and daily quests you could gather much more efficiently and go back to caring about your main (which was easier to graduate from daily grind for gear than in Vanilla) relatively quick. If you think that alting nowadays and alting before WLK are in any way similar, you've obviously not played WoW back then.
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Well, MC/BWL attunements were something you were doing anyway. TBC attunements actually felt epic in their scale. Yes, they were time-consuming and tedious, I also agree that a big part of each consisted of things you'd do anyway, but their scale and that each and every one of them offered you a chance of upgrade made the entire process feel epic. Compare the MoP/BfA ones to this. Not very interesting at all.
I've just gone through the Suramar attunement quests and... I have to say I was wrong about them. They weren't too bad, actually! Not as good as the TBC ones, but certainly more adjusted to the modern community.
Gearing up is neither attuning nor unlocking.
I don't agree with your opinion, but it's perfectly fine. Let's just agree to disagree
there are definitely parts of classic that people were right about. mostly the RPG elements and the fact that modern WoW is basically a menu simulator filled with heaps of corrosive mobile-tier gameplay
but theres also a lot about classic that is incredibly outdated and unfun. mostly the class gameplay and level of grind required to get to end-game with some gear
so its not really so black and white. I think based on shadowlands blizz realize that they were wrong about some things anyway and are bringing back certain elements from classic
You and I have had our words about this in the past but let's be realistic: Even if Blizzard was too conservative with their initial estimates of Classic's popularity, I don't think anybody could have predicted the unprecedented situation we're in as a society right now and the tertiary side effects it's had on the video game industry as a whole.
I understand reading can be hard for some people, but atleast give it a try before you start spewing random retardation all over the place? Like the government legit full on pranked you, there is no Corona, they just want YOU specifically, to stay away from other people, because they are pretty sure you reached a level of retardation where it became contagious.
Don't forget ZG released like, today as well. New content always brings players back in droves... for like a few month. They had to come back to get prepped for ZG a little bit. And now it's out, and it'll be cleared in like two hours by any raiding guild that can clear Lucifron. People will get bored of ZG even faster than MC, the new and shiny of Classic has worn off.
It's kind of pointless trying for us to try to argue with Classic fanboys though, so we're both wasting our breath. They'll never believe Classic doesn't have over 2 million players all the time because XYZ reason that doesn't actually show us anything plausible about population numbers.
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