Now before everyone breaks out the pitchforks, it should be noted that though these numbers are indeed pathetic, it does miss a frame of reference as it lacks comparable numbers from previous expansions
Now before everyone breaks out the pitchforks, it should be noted that though these numbers are indeed pathetic, it does miss a frame of reference as it lacks comparable numbers from previous expansions
all this is is estimations of players at the end game, all with 3rd party data that does not automatically update.
OMG he's so smart with numbers he should be game director.
PS. Can't wait for his game.
Games with cyclic content releases have cyclic player activity. News at 11.
It's ok, let Bobby worry about $$, he's much better at it than you ever will be.
Reality is WoW is still making shitton of money and you can be sure once new expansion hits there will be again millions of people jumping on it just from hype alone.
Now, it does not mean all is flowery, WoW is clearly in a slump now. But all in all it's still a gigantic money maker with unfair advantage of commanding decades old customer base that gets back to it almost religiously from time to time.
And somehow they managed last 16 years. This may be news for some people, but during early WoW people often quit to next patch as well. First 5 years it was offset by stream of new players, but cycle started to show during Cata.
In general talking about subs seems pointless. It's Blizzard problem, not ours. Also they have all data and can do serious comparison of expac health, doesn't really this joke of a video.
Wouldn't a DLC business model fit better then? Seems like the subscription hurdle is just getting in the way of the DLC sales.
1) Bellular has no insight into sub numbers, these graphs are one and all "estimations" he pulled out of his ass.
2) Bellular has always made lots of money by joining whichever drama train came through the village. It's his entire shtick. Just look at his video titles and you will realize that he makes money off of repeating the opinions of unhappy people back to them so they feel validated. WoW always had a large unhappy playerbase and Bellular is playing their mouthpiece.
3) He is an arrogant jackass, that pretends to know about game development because he wants to make a game (which he failed to do for now), so he bashes people that have created multi-billion dollar companies and AAA titles, while in truth he has no clue.
4) He was clearly paid off by other companies to do this bashing. Amazon has given millions to streamers to promote their stuff, do you really think they wouldn't give money to someone that has already shown more then willing to bash WoW for some extra bashing?
In short: Bellular is about the least trustworthy source you can possibly have. If you need someone to make your opinion for you, that is fine, but stop pretending like this is the gospel of truth.
Literally who cares about this guy? He's like the Fox News of Warcraft content creation, Blizzard dumped on him back in Legion when he wanted to voice act every single quest in WoW and profit off it and he's been salty at them ever since.
It surprises me that WoW still performed bad during a freaking pandemic.
As much as I hate twitch memes.. the whole copium thing does have a rather accurate ring to it..
You are welcome, Metzen. I hope you won't fuck up my underground expansion idea.
When you earn so much €€€ from bashing someone or something... what a way to make a living.
He is just using the same method as current main stream media. Pulls out some numbers or informations that nobody can confirm, make a story out of them and earn BIG BUCKS.
And no, I am not defending blizz, not even close. Its just fact that there is no way annyone but blizz knows the real numbers. And I can't watch someone earn money based on bunch of BS, even if its close to the truth... Journalism has to represent TRUTH to the public, not half truths or lies. Bellular is not journalist but sure acts like one.
Or he could just be trying to get whatever numbers he can get now. Even if WoW dies if he played his cards right he should be good money wise, so he really doesn't need to care if WoW lives or not. Or he could just move onto a different MMO and start the same cycle with that too.
All im seeing in this thread are insults and no counter arguments with factual data. He’s right about one thing, since blizzard has the real statistics and never releases them then they can control the narrative.