http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/08/06/world-of-warcraft-now-has-6-8-million-subscribers-half-compared-to-2010/
RIP WoW
>>256636680
>Recent market research conducted by Superdata shows that World of Warcraft still holds the lions share of the MMO market at 36 per cent, with its closest competitor Lineage 1 holding only 9 per cent
>Lineage 1
what the fuck
>>256636812
Korea is the fuck.
>>256636812
Glorious Lineage 1. Now only if they could make a proper Lineage 3 since they ruined 2 with interlude.
What are the most populated MMORPG's at the moment?
There a site to track all of them?
>>256637104
Lineage Eternal is looking good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCdbdsFgNGI
And yeah, shame they butchered 2 in the end.
;_; i cry everytime
>>256637104
>Glorious Lineage 1
How is it glorious? I have never talked to anyone who played that shit and in my country Lineage 2 was really popular. I mean really popular.
>>256637578
No.
>>256637682
It's popular only in Korea, I loved Lineage 2 too.
Sadly there's no more good private servers around and retail has no more EU servers.
>>256636680
>game is in a stale time with no new content until the next expac, so people lose interest
>still has millions of active subs and a returning million or two with WoD
>T-THE GAME IS DYING GUYS
>HA, HAHA HA, THERE YOU HAVE IT ACTIBLIZZ DRONES, YOUR GAME IS SHIT NOW
>BUT M-M-MUH NOSTALGIA ;_;
>>256639340
>Blizzard shills are actually this delusional.
>>256639759
>/v/ shills & blind, baseless antidrones genuinely act exactly like described and have yet come up with one single legit reason why vanilla would be better than even Cata, let alone MOP or the vastly improved genre-redifining expac that is WoD
Being right has never felt so good.
>>256640028
i actually preferred cata over Wotlk and MoP. But it seems like WoD isnt going to be very good due to a lot of the cut stuff.
Ok I recognize that they're sitting at a lot less than they did at their most prosperous but how does 6.8 MILLION subscribers mean "RIP WoW" in any way?
That's still 6.8 million people paying 15 bucks, every month. That's over a hundred million, and even after revenues and costs and such that is still very very good income for the company.
It's far from what it used to be, but to say it's dead is pretty delusional.
>>256640783
also not a drone or w/e, subbed last month, got 2 characters to cap, raided some, not planning to renew and no current plans to play WoD. Waiting on Archeage.
>>256640301
cut =/= delayed
I'm a PvP player. I play with my friends and will ride out this train.
Plan to play at least for WoD and get Rank 1.
I need rank 1. It's been my goal since BC. When I get it, I can finally have my closure with this game.
>>256641116
got any glads?
>pointy bits pointing at your head
Genius
>>256639340
It is dying, it's been bleeding subs since end of Wrath. Dying doesn't mean dead, it means dying.
>>256637682
Mostly just this
>>256637680
if this has a solid multilpayer and a good loot based trading economy i will finally have something to move a way from path of desynced lifenodes
>implying they can't lie
>>256641356
>RIP implies that the death has already happened
>>256641591
OP is wrong since it's not dead yet
>>256636680
I think you mean *RIP in peace, dude
>>256641253
2 Glad titles, haven't got one in a while but I know the process to get there.
After that it's a challenge to rank 1
>>256641491
They have been lying for years including Asian players as "subs"
They have retards like>>256640783
Under the impression they are making 15$ from 6.8M people a month
>>256641710
Hope you are in the Betal to try learn what will be the "flavour of the season" class so you dont get screwed over like Monks did back during the release of MoP or how DKs gutted the opening season of WotLk before the nerfs.
>majority of sub in Asian market
>ARR soon to launch in China
>ARR swipe players from WoW with C@ girls
>WoW plummets in subs
Are you /hype/?
>>256642050
What is ARR?
>>256642804
Some pirate MMO I assume
>>256642804
A Realm Reborn, it's FF XIV
>>256639340
>Don't worry guys once the new expansion with the least amount of content ever hits we will be back up to 12 million!
>It won't just spike for 2 months like it did in MoP, no way!
>It's not blizzards fault they made a raid tier last for a year!
>>256642050
Do Chinese people want so much to play ARR?
>>256636680
>wow has 6.8 million subs
>rip
funny
>>256642894
and its fucking shit. i played trial to like lvl 7 and threw up.
only reason to play it is for weird fetishes
>>256643083
It's more fun than SoO and Warlords of SoO
>>256636680
i love laughing at the desperate shit they pull off to keep the raking in the money.
let them crash and burn, so that better games may take its place. this one has run its course
>>256643215
that might be true, WoW is fucking shit right now.
but ARR is not any better
>>256643083
You should go see a doctor.
>>256643371
ARR is a lot more promising than WoW, the quality of content for WoW has plummeted over the years. Every time ARR gets a patch, it's like an expansion size-wise and that says a lot.
>Not a single bit of new content since September 2013 except cash shop bullshit
>Still has 6.8m subs
Honestly I'm mostly impressed it hasn't dropped lower.
I just want new content.
>p2p is dying due to people losing interest and not wanting to pay 15 bucks per month
>p2w is dying due to people being tired of being shit on
MMOs are dying of a slow death. What I think could be a remedy to this is by doing what GW2 did. Even though it was a shit game, the whole "pay once and play forever" and it's cosmetic only cash shop which you can buy with gold was pretty well thought.
>>256643692
stupid faggot
>>256643673
>Every time ARR gets a patch, it's like an expansion size-wise and that says a lot.
You're definitely exaggerating. But the patches are definitely frequent (3 months per) and contain a sizable amount of content.
The most impressive thing so far is next patch will have a new playable class for free.
>>256643835
>>256643684
Same here. Though more will drop (likely to 6m or lower) with Q3.
It's beyond obvious at this point that the massive sub loss is due to no content. There's nothing to fucking do in the game.
If they weren't retarded, they'd reduce the size of their expansions so they could release an expansion every year or year 1/2, and never have these year-long content droughts.
Why is Blizzard so fucking incompetent? They've had this problem 3 times now.
>>256643905
Did they make the content harder at all?
>>256643987
The answer is so fucking simple as well. Stop pushing out the content patches so quickly. ToT hardly had a long enough shelf life for SoO to come out.
>>256643673
im sure it is, but the combat is really slow, and loading screens everywhere.
I would see why people like it, but i prefer something with more of an open world if you catch my drift
It's not like Blizzard is particularly trying to keep it alive. It's been a year without a single piece of new content besides a fucking thirty dollar mount.
They dug their own grave.
RIP
>>256644059
Less than 10% of the playerbase had beaten the previous raid content before they released the current content.
But yes, this content is harder. And they're starting to add bosses with more elements of randomness, so it doesn't feel so scripted.
>>256643905
>You're definitely exaggerating.
Nah, just take a look at what was mentioned for the next one.
>Golden Saucer
If this isn't enough indicative
>New coil
>New class
>Story mode
>Entrance to Ishgard
>Extra quests
FFXI's first expansion was basically 2 new classes, an extension to the story mode and a airship ride to an island.
I'm looking forward to the new expansion. It looks to be the final one. I plan to get to level 100 for the first time, and never play again.
Let's be honest, it's an MMORPG. I know people will be like MUH BURNING CRUSADE but it's done well to last as long as it has. It's an ageing game. MMO's never last forever. This is the most successful one.
I'm looking forward to saying goodbye to WoW, and probably MMORPG's overall. They've never been that interesting really. You've got to make a quest for EVERYONE that makes sense with the story. It's hard to do.
>>256644425
>It looks to be the final one.
You know Everquest still puts out an expansion every year, right?
>>256644425
>It looks to be the final one.
>>256641665
That is the point.
>>256644235
There are no worthwhile open world games, the best that we're getting at the moment is Archeage and possible Everquest NXT
>>256644493
Fuck that, UO is still getting expansions!And looking worse with every graphical update.
>>256644425
They have you forever. Bye.
>>256642952
>implying I mentioned anything about this
>implying that there's less content in WoD than any other
>implying there'll be a significant spike; it's not needed anyway because the game is still very much alive and doing great
>the year of SoO isn't a big deal unless you live and breathe only to do the latest raiding tier, in a game where raiding isn't a big thing anymore and there's dozens of other activities to do
>>256644410
>Golden Saucer
Golden Saucer probably isn't going to be 2.4 though. People keep saying they promised Golden Saucer, but all they have said is that they've begun developing it.
>>256644718
>there's dozens of other activities to do
Not really. The only other new content was the Isle, and that shit got old after a month.
>>256644724
It's near completion actually, they started developing it back in February
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/02/18/final-fantasy-14-gold-saucer-development-has-begun
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/13680208485?page=1
Can you feel the terror?
>>256644425
I thought it be the last one.. I was to excited for this game to finally be over.
>level 100
>foreshadowing Burning Legion
>new expansion announced
>fucking filler
I actually thought they were going to move the story forward for once
>>256636680
Don't worry guys, Metzen's wish fulfillment expansion will save WOW
;:^)
>6.8 million subscribers
>over 100 million just in subscription fees every fucking month
>dead
I have never played WoW, but that sounds stupid.
>>256644608
yeah, ive been playing some archeage, its not too bad actually. But it wont work if you intend to play F2P. The ocean is massive though.
>>256645326
But Anon
Asians don't pay a sub. Blizzard lies about their numbers
>>256639340
The vast majority of WoW subscriptions are chinese.
Chinese accounts are pay by the hour, never close, and each new account gets a couple hours free.
So if WoW subscriptions fall AT ALL, it means non-chinese, pay per month accounts (read: the accounts that are actually worth a fuck) are being closed.
>>256640028
You have autism
Anyone here still play Anarchy Online?
>>256641393
>RAPTR
Yeah, I'm sure that is a reliable source of information.
>>256645568
>Chinese accounts are pay by the hour, never close, and each new account gets a couple hours free.
That's actually a lie. They don't count inactive accounts. I'm not sure what's the exact time when they consider an account inactive in asia, but it happens. Also, they said in their press release that the decline in subscribers was mostly due to Asia, and not the west.
They made healing harder in cata and people have been leaving ever since.I quit healing and went dps let someone else worry about idiots who stand in fire.
I'm surprised WoW has lasted this long. It's been what, ten years now? EverQuest only lasted for like eight years, so WoW's foothold is pretty impressive
>game loses subs over the last two expansions when majority already agrees (including Blizzard) that they've been the worst expacs so far.
Stop the presses.
>>256646008
yeah, it came out at a perfect time, and WC3 was the best RTS out there, so the buyers carried out to it. WoW was the first MMO for most of the people, not to add in that the average players was probably 13 years old.
>>256645872
If you play once during the quarter you are counted.
0.10$ spent and you are a "sub"
>>256641393
>Skyrim has more players than TESO
>less raid content than ever before (2 raids and 7 dungeons at launch)
>less class skills (which means balancing wont be an issue like in WotLK)
>no new hero class
>no new playable races
>garrisons get alot of cut content
>Tanaan (which was the starting zone for both factions) wont even be in launch but only include a small hub to fly each faction to the next zone
>alot of the new models got faces/animations cut and the new Blood elf models wont even be ingame during launch but "patched in" later
>alot of the models are recycled and rehashes not just on the skeleton level and they already had the Terrain from Outland to work with
>yet this expac still needs the longest time of developement of any prior to it which will be around 1 year and 3 months (if they stick with the original december release date planned).
>Rob Pardo, the man that made WoW the success it is today and was brought from Titan to be the poster boy and "savior" of WoD decides to leave mid-production eventhough he had a comfy position at Blizzard and a six figure salary
Just what the fuck is going on at Blizzard right now that it became this massive clusterfuck?
>>256645879
yeah, healing sure is hard. lel
>there will never be a good mmo
fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
>>256645872
>actually believing what is written in a corporate press release
Don't you need to be 18 to browse 4chan?
>>256645216
The story ended with Arthas bro
>>256645879
>healing
>harder
>not literally playing "wack-a-mole" with Grid or similar shit while never running out of mana
Oh yeah, there was that one time I actually had to dispell something.
>>256645872
>one part of a statement is inaccurate in a purely semantic sense
>call entire statement a lie
Blizzard marketers!
>>256645879
i actually enjoyed Cata healing before they nerfed heroics
>dropped the game after the nerf
There was a time when my druid saved countless wipes because of my ability to swap roles and keep the DPS going that little bit longer, making me this epic jack of all trades. Now? Get better gearscore nub
>end of BC
>subs dip
>end of Wrath
>subs dip
>end of Cata
>subs dip
>end of MoP
>subs dip
You faggots never learn. The only thing that will kill WoW, is WoW. Just like EQ.
Plenty of MMOs have existed with FAR less subs.
But you fags want to be like /pol/. Scream it's happening until it does happen.
>>256644261
Don't they usually release content patches based on how and where they're moving the overall story of the series? Seems to me there's a correlation between little content being released and bad story writing.
>>256639340
>>T-THE GAME IS DYING GUYS
>>HA, HAHA HA, THERE YOU HAVE IT ACTIBLIZZ DRONES, YOUR GAME IS SHIT NOW
>>BUT M-M-MUH NOSTALGIA ;_;
Why do people even treat posts like this as if they're worth anyone's time
They're the most obnoxious bottom of the barrel shitposts
Most blizzard defense force posts are
>>256645872
The Chinese accounts pay by the hour and get a few free hours a month. If there accounts are left open even even if they haven't played in months they still are getting time added up to a cap for free time. Blizzard counts those accounts as open and it's completely legal to for them to do that. Normally lying to shareholder would be against the law, but in this case it isn't.
>>256650210
>s-stop criticizing t-things I like!
>>256647735
They desperately just want the next The old republic.
But no video game will ever crash as hard as that any time soon.
>>256641393
I'm surprised Guild Wars 2 is still hanging in there. I thought it would be a memory by now.
>>256645879
They made 10s award the same loot as 25s in Cata and tons of guilds dropped a huge number of shitty players. A good portion of those shitty players ended up quiting because no one wanted to carry them.
>>256636680
It will go up again when the movie comes out. WoW wont die so fast. Escpecially when every mmo that comes out is even worse.
>>256650718
>The Chinese accounts [...] get a few free hours a month.
This is completely new information to me.
This means its possible for a Chinese player to play WoW, literally, 24 hours a day, for free, if he has enough accounts.
How can blizzard pretend the millions of subs figure they keep trotting around is valid in any way, shape, or form?
>>256652043
The vast majority of people who know that "WoW is the biggest MMO" don't even know what "WoW' stands for.
The warcraft movie is going to flop harder than spirits within.
>>256652952
Nope. A few hours few a month per person. They can have multiple accounts, but unless they start paying they don't get the free time.
>>256644425
>They've never been that interesting really. You've got to make a quest for EVERYONE that makes sense with the story. It's hard to do.
WoW is a baby's first MMO. It's casual as fuck and because it's so successful it ruined any chance of MMOs being good for a very long time if ever because everyone else is trying to play it safe any copy the garbage that is WoW.
>>256652952
The six~ million subs number they throw around doesn't include chinese figures, anon.
>>256653430
Normals will see it just because of the warcraft name. People do know what wow stands for.
>>256640028
>Black Temple and Frostwolf keep no longer hub cities, just quest locations you visit once.
>New faction cities are copy pastes of the 4.1 krasarang wilds faction bases in ashran, an island in bumfuck nowhere
>Garrisons only in one zone now, no longer customization, no longer lets you name npcs, no longer has skill boosts, is just a daily quest hub phased to you.
>average class goes from 40 spells to 7
>no new skeletons or animations, literally every creature in the expansion is a remodelled creature.
>portions of entire zones are copy pasted from the BC devset
>the rest are not flying compatible and have 2d jpg mountains -now you know why shamans had far sight and hunters had eagle vision removed.
>now only 4 dungeons from level 90-100
>client code for garrison cash shop functionality discovered, quickly removed along with tweet mentioning it from cory stockton
>less raid content at launch than any expansion
>less dungeons than cataclysm had in PATCHES
>story is a barely canon side timeline alternate dimension just to give another enemy to fight while trying to lure in veterans with nostalgia and a 'veterans first!" beta access program
>almost all CC removed in pvp. totally removed in pve
>adding healing and tanking npcs in quests
>replacing quests with "dynamic, interactive world experiences" that appear once and when you do them disappear leaving huge swathes of zones empty.
>new models have a single face and the cosmetic choices in almost every model but undead simply adds a new texture to said single face.
>80% of announcements from blizzcon for the expansion are confirmed cut or extremely truncated in some way.
>>256641393
>Wildstar has more players than FFXIV
I'm calling bullshit on that. Wildstar was dreadful.
>>256653667
>loads of misinformation
it's people like you that make anti-blizzdrones look bad, anon
>>256653623
>doesn't include Chinese accounts
>>256653846
sure, man, keep believing everything you read on /v/
there are plenty of reasons to hate WoW and Blizzard without resorting to shit that isn't true.
>>256653791
It's all been proven as 100% accurate many times over. Blizzard drones have battard wife syndrome and will find any way to spin it. A blue poster even tried to twist everything on that list as a positive.
>>256636680
This brought a smile to my face. It really did. Fuck WoW. MMOs are a fucking blight.
>>256653790
I'm calling bullshit on that. FFXIV was fucking horrible trainwreck.
>>256654076
>blizzard defense force in action!
>>256654430
Why do you hate video games, anon?
>>256654375
man, I fucking hate blizzard.
I actually fact check, post on their forums, and on /v/ to discourage people who say they want to resub.
You can believe it all you want, but most of the stuff on that list isn't true.
>>256654642
>why don't you like the shit games I like?
Fixes
>>256651874
It's a game with a low bar of entry, no sub fee, and is still pretty good for pick up and play.
Crushingly disappointing sequel, but as a standalone game for people who didn't play GW1 I can see why it's doing alright for itself.
>>256654776
I quit WoW back in WotLK. I'm asking you, why do you hate video games?
>>256654642
I don't, I hate shitty ones that are getting shittier.
>>256654559
Love the people who post memes even when they are proven wrong, and constantly scream _______ drone! They aren't legally allowed to count the free time on the accounts, only the recent(within a month) hour cards. You really should actually look into stuff and not just be a parrot
>>256654559
>can't retort
>POST LAUGHING IMAGES AND HE'LL GO AWAY
Pretty typical in these threads I suppose.
Used to be anti-blizzard threads had people who played the game and were seriously against the shit Blizzard did. People who actually knew what they were talking about. But people like you've shown me that these threads are mostly people who don't even play the game who just like to shitpost on popular games.
Good job anon, bet your mum is proud.
>>256653623
Yes it does, it always has since the end of Wrath when they peaked. As you can see the Asian "subscribers" make up over half of the subscribers.
>>256654679
>most of that stuff isn't true
Who are you trying to fool? I've been watching multiple streams and most of that list has been proven correct from them alone.
WoW seems to be the only game people pay attention to with subscription numbers.
>>256644425
>It looks to be the final one.
they already said before MoP came out that they had the next 2 (WoD and one more) planned out
>>256654869
But anon I love video games.I just got done playing ffxiv
>>256655040
so that's why you're doing damage control for your company's illegal practices, blizzdrone.
>>256654869
That guy wasn't me. I don't hate video games, I hate WoW and most MMOs. /v/ is always in agreement that gameplay is important until WoW or a shitty JRPG or some other terrible mmo is brought up then it doesn't matter how terrible the gameplay is for some fucking retarded reason. WoW is bad. You should realize that.
>>256655040
>they aren't legally
>>256643684
Asia has always been over half of the player base, so around 4-5 million we'll say. Then EU and NA combined is the other half, with EU always having a little more than NA. So EU would have around 1-2 million, and NA would have around 500k to 1 million.
When you do the math and remember that it's region locked, you then start to realize just how dead it really is compared to other MMOs in NA.
>>256654076
M8 just stop you're pathetic
WoW has about 2M western subs. Deal with it
>>256655370
I can tell you are young or autistic, but there is a difference between explaining how a process actually works and being a "drone". If anything you are so anti blizzard that you won't listen to how business ethics work, making you a drone.
>>256655114
>anti blizzard anons
>who still played blizzard games
Holy fuck my sides
>>256655514
>she'll never suck your dick
>>256655514
You are proving my point by posting cartoon images and acting like you have any sources to back your argument up
>>256655160
A cursory glance can actually prove I'm right.
CC is still in, even for PVP. I played through Skyreach in the beta and we had to use CC on the mobs before the last boss.
Garrisons can be customized just as they were promised at Blizzcon, though the naming function was removed last build.
It already has as much raid content as MOP or Cata at launch, though a lot of that is outdoor raid bosses.
They aren't replacing quests, since there are still a fuckton of quests everywhere.
There are already around 6 dungeons ( not sure on the exact number but I did six of them, few of them were buggy as shit )
There's more than fucking 7 class spells, though I only ever really used around 7-9~ ish while doing dungeons.
Half of that list is completely true though, but the other half is bullshit. Deal with it.
>>256653790
>June
Initial hype
>over $100 million in subscription fees monthly
>no new content for over a year
>>256655984
>literately counting the Zerg fest that is outdoor raid bosses as "raid content"
Hahahahaha
>>256655778
>Caring enough about a game you don't play to shit up threads about it.
oh wow anon, thanks for proving that these threads aren't about the game at all.
>>256656226
Someone has to pay the Titan team now that blizzard is making them start over again from scratch
Still waiting for SoO to end. Why is this allowed?!
>>256656285
>ignoring the rest of the list
hahahaha
>>256656226
Not all subscribers pay $15 a month, remember, Asia is over half of the subscribers and they pay per hour.
>>256656226
>B-b-b-but we don't have the resources!
Please understand that Blizzard has the output of a 3 man indie team.
>6.8 million subs.
>counting Chinese farmers paying by the day as subs
>implying people with multiple accounts is the same as having two distinct players
>counting multiboxers as legitimate subs
>meanwhile limit the ability to /who to see how many players are active on the server and merge servers to further hide real numbers
Blizzard is the king of cooking the books outside of the banking industry.
>>256656539
Well yea
They have to afford yachts for each of them and all of Metzens Orc dildos
>>256646720
when did he leave? was there any mention as to why?
>>256641356
>bleeding subs
No it hasn't, it's been stated many times that MOP stabilized the hemorrhaging. WOD is viewed as the tipping point as it either keeps subs or fucks up and the hemorrhaging starts again.
>>256655917
>your proving my point
>>256656624
Nigga why do you think they count those numbers?
6.8 mil is an inviting number for advertisements, it's also the amount of accounts, legitimate or not that are paying out money each month to Blizzard.
They don't say otherwise because they have no reason to. They'd be retarded if they reported the actual numbers.
>>256646720
>Tanaan Jungle was supposed to be the starting zone for both factions
What?Wasn't it supposed to be end-level zone?
>>256655984
>y-you didn't see any of that!
>here, let me tell you what you actually saw
>>256656484
okay so we'll put a very conservative estimate of $20 million
that is 1/3 of the entire original WoW budget of $60 mil, every month. it's been like that for years. how are people still paying $15/month for no content in over a year's worth of collecting a pile of money greater than 99.9% of games budgets, including this one?
>mfw there is a cash shop too
>You'll live to see Blizzard will go bankrupt
>>256656694
I don't think he said why
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/13348514719
But everyone pretty much knew why. I was at Blizzcon and he seemed so sad about what they were presenting for WoD. There were a few times he was on stage and the crowd booed over some things they were presenting and he looked legitimately upset. I'm sure he could tell that the game was turning out horribly and jumped ship.
>>256656715
>3.2M subs lost
>stabilizing
Well it does converge at 0 I guess
>>256656932
>lying on the internet
anon, pls
>>256655160
Community managed Lore debunked some of the things on the list:
http://www.wowhead.com/bluetracker?topic=13272407548
>>256637680
I remember seeing this video like 4 years ago. Anyone know how it's progressing?
>a decade-old game isn't popular anymore
Fascinating news.
>>256656747
You sure got me with your cartoon images and vapid mind
>>256656323
>trying to spin the blizzard critacisers out of the blizzard criticism thread
>>256656936
Because people don't know the facts. They think 6 million subscribers means people they are playing with, and that everyone pays $15 a month. So they think, oh wow, that's so many people this must be a really good game guys, I'll just keep paying for it because there's nothing else out there.
But little do they know there's MMOs out there who have more subscribers NA than NA WoW: >>256655537
I've seen so many posts on the WoW forums that are like "My server is dead, WTF Blizzard, I thought there were like 7 million subs where are all those people?"
>>256641393
>sc2 is really ded
>>256657235
>butchering the word criticizers that much
not even that guy, learn to spell faggot
>>256653639
Normals associate the warcraft name with losers who spend all their time shitting into socks.
>>256653489
I'm sorry, but anyone with even a quarter of a mind can get around the "per person" bit and just have a ton of accounts that are all getting free game time every month.
>>256657165
>posting smug_anime_girl.jpg means you lost an argument
I wish being retarded was grounds for a ban
>>256656694
He's too professional to say anything about it, but I think it's obvious he is unhappy with how things are going at Blizzard. This is the same guy who said microtransactions in WoW would feel like betraying their playerbase.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/micro-transactions-betray-players
Several years later and Blizzard is jewing a cash shop in WoW while still charging a subscription. Maximum jewry with Diablo 3's RMAH design which sullied the franchise's clean name. SC2 was a bust, and Heroes looks like shit.
Pardo was influential in the Diablo 2, SC1, WoW vanilla & TBC era of Blizzard. I think he knows more than anyone that the company is done as an innovator and creator of great games with great value.
>>256636680
>tfw resubbed a week ago and having a fucking blast levelling an alt
I don't even care. This game's gonna be around for a minimum of another 5 years. Probably 10. MMO's with a fraction of WoW's subs are going strong.
>>256657056
>Raid content lasting for over a year
>Hype out the ass for WOD
You're going to see a dip but they will come back because we get to see good ol' Grom again and no his hunched back isn't going to stop people so don't try to tell me different
>>256655268
Mostly because of that original 20 million (or whatever) subscriptions number. That original splash is the only reason anyone even pays attention anymore.
>>256640301
what the actual fuck bro
>>256657152
obviously it's dead
>>256657901
>MMO's with a fraction of WoW's subs are going strong.
They also release content 4 times as fast as WoW does, even ones that are free to play.
I don't know why you would continue paying for a game in which you get the least for your money compared to ANY other MMO out there.
>>256657965
>d-don't tell me that my game is gonna f-fall
It's half good half same shit as MoP and therefore appeals to nobody
2 more years at this rate and WoW will dry up
>>256655268
It's because the game literally has nothing left going for it.
PVP? Other MMOs do it better
Content? Other games release it quicker
Pay model? Other games do it better
End game? Other games can do it just as well (this I will admit is something they still have, but you can get the same if not better elsewhere)
Graphics? Other games do it better
Subscriber numbers? Oh wow they have 6 million subscribers including pay by hour players in China, they must be the best MMO out there guys
WoW is shit. always was
yeah, it'll go ded and blizzard will die eventually
but the bigshots earned SO
MUCH
MONEY
I can't even begin to feel happy for either of those two things
>>256637104
>archeage
>>256658251
Becaust quantity =/= quality. WoW is really fucking good.
>>256658742
>literally any retard can queue up and beat the final boss of the game
>good
>>256658742
No it's really not, trust me. Go out there and try other games, and don't just be like "I wonder how many subscribers they have, they only have 1 million, game must be dead".
I stopped playing WoW a long time ago and started giving some of those "smaller" MMOs a chance that people are so quick to write off because of their supposed player numbers. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of end game, graphics, community, and how quickly they release new content.
>>256643083
I've been playing ARR:FFXIV for a year now. Want more ointment for it?
>>256658286
>half same shit as MoP
Have you been looking into the beta footage/details? The 5 mans have challenge to them and heroics now require people to know the basics of their class. WOD is going to revive WoW with new player models, a new world and rewarding ACTUAL raiders.
>>256657082
>lying on the internet
Anon, please.
>>256657095
>community manager
>debunking anything
>>256659115
No it won't, the people who left aren't going to come back, they've already left and came back a million times before.
It's just too little too late. Screenshot this post and save it if you don't believe me. I guarantee when WoD comes out the numbers will not be anywhere near where they used to be at the start of MoP. People just aren't coming back anymore, and new players aren't coming in, either. She's dying man, let her go.
>>256657165
>vapid mind
>>256657779
I doesn't necessarily mean you're losing an argument, but it doesn't help. Also it is core faggotry that actively deteriorates the board culture.
>>256637578
It's WoW, and will be for at least 2 more years unless WoD actually turns out great.
But really this is the end of the expansion where pretty much a shit load of people are not playing and holding off until the new expansion hits. The only reason I play WoW right now is because I didn't play this entire expansion so I am not burned out or tired of the content since it is still relatively fresh to me. But still WoW is on the downturn slowly leaking subs. But when WoD hits I expect the sub count to reach back into 9 million.
>>256658970
>implying I give a fuck about raids
dude, I like levelling alts and stomping punks in battlegrounds
>>256659019
I've tried tons of MMOs. Off the top of my head, Rift, Guild Wars 2, Runescape, Tera, Aion, The Secret World, APB. That's just the ones I could think of in 30 seconds. I liked all of them, but I always come back to WoW.
>>256657372
Ayy lmao
>>256659443
Even named it for the occasion.
>>256659667
lmao, ayy...
>>256659443
>they already left and came back a million times before
so... why won't it happen again?
>>256657779
>>256659616
>complaining about Anime on a Japanese style image board
>people who think Blizzard making "only" a billion dollars in subs this year means WoW is dead
You people are fucking pathetic and CoreCraft is a dumb piece of shit
>>256659443
Literally everyone I have talked to has said they are going to play again when WoD launches. This is what has happened for pretty much every expansion buddy.
>>256659115
And yet the dungeons are still mere hallways in size, with 3-4 bosses each. They are nothing more than a 1 day gear boost
LFR still exists in any degree
The cash shop continues to be expanded and now features non-cosmetic items
Blizzard outright states they will be adding more diversity
They continue to destroy server communities
Caving to shitters who can't control their targeting and flag themselves. They even stated they will buff guards if city raids happen.
>WoW fags desperately try to convince everyone and themselves the game is dying so they won't be tempted to play the new expansion
MMO fags are retarded addicts.
>Paying $15 a month for a game you already bought
>>256659628
But ask yourself, why? What is so special about WoW that makes you come back to it?
Like I said here: >>256658524
In this day and age, it does almost nothing better than any other decent MMO out there who will cost you much less to play and releases content 4 times faster than WoW. Not to mention the community for most of them generally isn't as shitty and you can still find people to play with.
I've been playing Aion lately. Most people consider it "dead" on NA servers, but from my experience I always see people playing even just while leveling. There's always organized large scale world PVP, and a really tight knit community where it seems like everyone knows everyone.
I will never ever go back to WoW after trying what else is out there on the market. I used to always go back to it, too. But then I realized I never really gave any other game an actual chance, I just wrote them off because of their supposed subscriber numbers.
>>256660153
You do realize their almost decade long mmo project was just scraped and they are restarting it now
Blizzards only hope was just pushed back another ten years
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/330513-gearing-up-to-celebrate-10-years-of-world-of-warcraft/
Are you ready for MC reloaded my fellow nostalgians?
WoD will be cataclysm 2.0.
It'll be the unfinished expansion they originally had a ton of awesome plans for but shit it out prematurely anyway because suits were already pressuring them to work on the next one.
Next expansion will be finished and probably pretty good, but it won't matter because the game will be dead.
>>256660409
Dude, I just have more fun with WoW. We can discuss perceptions, objective value, and whatever else you want, but, at the end of the day, fun is what matters. And WoW is the most fun to me, so it's worth the subscription cost.
>>256661051
I know, and I'm asking you, why is it more fun to you?
>>256660259
>non-cosmetic items
What now? Referring to the China-exclusive xp pots?
>>256661183
As if that's something anyone is able to quantify.
I like the world that blizzard created. I like the questing. I like the art-style. I like the PvP.
I don't need to justify my enjoyment of a videogame.
>>256660259
>And yet the dungeons are still mere hallways in size, with 3-4 bosses each. They are nothing more than a 1 day gear boost
Go take a look at Fatboss dungeon footage or something when you get a chance. The dungeons actually look great. Too bad there's only seven and a rehash, that part is inexcusable.
>LFR still exists in any degree
It's getting BTFO to the point they may as well have just removed it because the incentive for shitters to run it is gone.
>The cash shop continues to be expanded and now features non-cosmetic items
Not even close to being pay2win yet. The only complaint I have is that they say they don't have the resources to do X, yet cash shop is constantly churning out things to sell. It's also unlikely that any of that money will be put back into making more content.
>Blizzard outright states they will be adding more diversity
???
>They continue to destroy server communities
This is a big problem. They're trying to fix it and save some face with connected realms, but they need to bite the bullet and merge servers.
>Caving to shitters who can't control their targeting and flag themselves. They even stated they will buff guards if city raids happen.
City raids will always happen on larger population servers. Unless they make guards that one-shot tanks, there will be city raids. People are just getting assblasted about Ashran faction generals (who are targets for Ashran objectives) also being vendors for PvP gear.
>>256636680
>WOW IS DOWN TO 6.8 MILLION
>DED!
oh wait it still has far and ahead the biggest market share of all mmos
>>256660025
Who's talking about anime? I'm talking about shitposting images in tandem with simple minded greentext...wait a minute.
>>256661527
>b-but it's shiiit!!!
>There are now over 1.5 million preorders for Warlords of Draenor.
>Hearthstone on the iPad has added millions of new users to Battle.Net.
>There have been over 20 million copies of Diablo III sold, counting both the base game and Reaper of Souls.
>There was a decline in subscribers quarter over quarter, which was disproportionately concentrated in the East and was similar to the seasonal decline experienced during the second quarter of 2012, prior to the launch of the most recent expansion later that year.
Blizzard sounds like they are doing fine.
>>256661527
I think it's pretty easy to explain to someone why you don't or do like a game?
I was only asking you why you like it compared to other games out there. If it really is worth it to you and enjoyable, then by all means, go for it. But I still feel like despite that you at least aren't getting the most for your money in my opinion considering how long it takes them to release new content, and how that new content has a $60+ price tag along with it, and then another $15 monthly. It's just ridiculous.
>>256661884
Their content release schedule is largely irrelevant to me because I don't raid.
>it is 2014 and there are still people on this earth who enjoy WoWs hotbar cycling static slog that is combat
how
literally how do you have fun with this shit
i enjoyed playing the game when i was a kid, but how can anyone over the age of 18 justify playing this to themselves? it's so fucking boring i literally cannot think of an mmo i've tried with a worse combat system than this piece of shit
>>256661884
Not even that guy, but it's your OPINION that other MMOs do this or that better. It's other's opinion that WoW is better. People have had a decade to build a history with WoW. They're comfortable with it. As for me, I didn't like the other MMOs I tried (mainly FFXIV, GW2) for different reasons. Also, the expansion is $50.
>>256636680
thank you jesus
>>256662087
what's alternative do you suggest?
>>256661884
The way I view if any game was worth the price is a little system I use in which 1 hour of gameplay must equal 1 dollar in total price spent.
There are some games I have that are successful in that account like EU3 where I have 180 hours logged or Natural Selection 2 where I have 234 hours. Anything less than that makes it a loss/bad game in my opinion.
I haven't played WoW much at all this expansion so I am still fresh and new to the whole MoP concept and am getting plenty of bang for my buck.
>>256662221
BUT WHY DO YOU LIKE IT? You have to tell me so that I can say you are wrong and that other MMOs do it better. Tell me now!
>>256662221
That is still $50 more than any other game. Most games release expansions for free nowadays.
>>256657860
>he had to beat off 3 guys
>>256662087
On the contrary, every new MMO coming out trying to innovate in combat has sucked major ass in comparison to WoW though. Of course these are just our opinions anyways so it's not like any one of us will budge on it nor does it mean either of us is in the right.
>>256662608
come on man...
>>256662276
>still has almost 7mil subs
>at the end of an expansion
>no new content for a year
>buy2play
>pay2play
>cash shop
>still has almost 7mil subs
Ded gaem, right?
>>256662498
>I like the world that blizzard created. I like the questing. I like the art-style. I like the PvP.
Why don't you try reading for a change?
>>256662408
for a better combat system? literally anything
TERA, vindictus, c9, gw2 all immediately come to mind
they have their own problems, of course, but still way better than that shitfest
>>256662507
And those games are usually shit
>>256662608
>/tv/ visits Asia
>tfw I got the mmo itch again
Fuck man. I can't go back to WoW. I just can't.
>>256662608
SOMEONE GET THE MODS
>>256636680WoW is shit
>>256660918
OH FUCK.
NO THEY DIDN'T.
YES THEY FUCKING DID.
40MAN HATERS BTFO.
>>256662804
>calling for mods
>implying they ever need to be called and don't just respond immediately to this shit
>>256662608
>Mist of Pandaria in a nutshell
>>256662635
>On the contrary, every new MMO coming out trying to innovate in combat has sucked major ass in comparison to WoW though
in some ways, yes, but the combat is still way better, which is kind of important in a game focused on fighting
>>256662608
MODSMODSMODS
I think wow will regain popularity with their p2w transition. Seems like that's the direction games are going in, sadly.
>>256662743
He was being sarcastic, you dumb idiot.
>>256662608
>>256660918
>Blizz adding a non-cash shop pet.
How did i get to bizarro earth?
>>256662498
Why does anyone like anything?
>>256662507
Why would they release this for free? They still have almost 6.8mil people subbing and they haven't released new content for ten months, and won't until the expansion releases. They are in the driver's seat and all other MMOs are riding coattails. I get that you don't like it, but it's the way it is right now. You can make it your crusade to tell everyone why they're wrong and why they shouldn't like the game they do, or you can go play what you like and stop worrying about it.
>>256662998
I am going to agree to disagree here, which this is something 90% of people in this thread should doing.
>>256663098
If it makes you sad, then don't support it
>>256662608
MAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHDDDDDSSSS
>>256663201
>I am going to agree to disagree here
then you're wrong
all the dungeons and raids and quest content and whatever doesnt mean shit if the game is such a fucking slog to play
>>256663485
opinions, how do they work
>>256663485
I find the "action" MMO combat like TERA and GW2 to be pretty terrible. Does that make you wrong? It's all personal preference.
>>256651874
GW2 is doing very well for itself, and always has. The game's business model built the entire experience from the ground up knowing it was gonna hit f2p status at some point, so they made sure the game could support itself from the get go.
Arenanet can be retarded with balance patches and some gameplay designs, but they at least understand where their product stands.
>>256660918
>40 man MC reloaded
HOLY SHIT
>>256663216
I've gotten out of gaming almost completely because of the various anti-consumer directions its taken over the last decade.
