Originally Posted by
Will
You're going off on a tangent here. People who say Wrath is the best say that because it was their favourite expansion. The fact that sub numbers stopped growing by Wrath does NOT mean that Wrath was the game's downfall. Favourite =/= most successful.
Again, seriously, go look up how market saturation works. Stop repeating the same old shit and just learn how market saturation works, otherwise you're just refusing to learn and wasting our time.
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That's not even how it works, either. If sub numbers remain constant, it does not mean an expansion is flopping. It means for every player who quits, one replaces them. So, why did TBC and Vanilla have a ratio of more players coming than going? Because, the market was less tapped. The market was more saturated with potential customers, and the competing MMOs were less appetizing.
Again, this ALL points back to market saturation, the subject you seem remarkably uninterested in Googling about, instead preferring to repeat the same arguments that you yourself would have answered if you'd stopped hyperventilating, and actually read what people are trying to drill into your head.
It's really fucking simple. There's only a FINITE number of potential customers in the market. When the market who are interested in WoW are already playing it, then the potential to grow further is lessened, because those who have an interest in the game are already playing it, and those without an interest are not. You combine this with more compelling COMPETING products, tapping the same market, and that also contributes to people leaving. That doesn't mean the expansion flopped. It doesn't mean Wrath was WoW's downfall. It just means there were less available market left to tap, and more compelling products from other companies also stealing some of the thunder.
Your username really does check out.