WoW's Future Has Never Looked Better.
WoW Will Be Fine. Past it's peak, but good things are coming.
WoW's in trouble. Things need to change.
Maintenance Mode Isn't Far Off.
New World is a brand new game, of course viewership is going to be higher. (It doesn't hurt that Asmonbald is no-lifing it currently.) WoW Classic had WoW above 1 million viewers after it launched. There's no real correlation between longterm game popularity and Twitch viewership so this is a pretty poor metric by which to compare. In 6 months I'd be surprised if New World has half of WoW's viewership.
Yes, this is true. In the absence of subscription numbers people tend to latch on to any other metric they can find. The figures now are no different to where they were 3 years ago according to Twitchtracker. The Diablo 2 remaster currently has more viewers than WoW. Asmongold's streams massively skew the viewing figures anyway.
Thats the same as i said. People dont want difficulty and easiest way to avoid it is select for better teammates as that requires little effort. Especially with tools automating selection. Thats where the pressure comes from. People being lazy and unwilling to endure any hardship. As for m+ - the predecessor is arguably mop challenge modes. Though they were more casual friendly since you didnt need to gear grind. M+ is more for outscaling content which is targeting longterm retention as you cant simply beat it in a weak having high enough player skill.
On the matter of everyone needs to get good gear - The lie is gear having any value by itself. Gear is just a gating mechanism for grind and a time sink for BiS collection. If you dont enjoy the process its a waste of time regardless what ilvl is painted on it. I know i wont convince anyone but if you dont enjoy the process you shouldn't play the game for "number goes up". Gear progression for the sake of gear progression is just a psychological trap to lock you in the game.
Not healthy atm. It looks like it's going faster downhill now after the investigation and subsequent handling of it. As is typical when ignorant people are involved, they are handling this "cleanup" in such a regressive way that one has to wonder if some right wing psy-op is behind it all. It's baffling to me how they can get away with such blatant fundie conservatism when the problem was caused by the very same thing.
Kotick and their type needs to be removed from status asap, before this take-over is worsening things even further.