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When will WoW die?
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Post by
Adamsm
Wow, are you serious?
Yeah, he is, and I agree with him. If you were to go back to the Wowhead archives and take a look at the front page posts for the several months after the announcement of WotLK and Cata, there's no marked difference in the level of people complaining. The same holds true on the official forums. And it's pretty much the same for every MMO that I've played.
Supposedly WoW was going to die when Aion came out, when Warhammer came out, when pretty much any 'insert new game name here' comes out....and yes, people have been complaining about every expansion for the entire time Warcraft has existed.
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903520
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Post by
Sweetscot
I have no idea, my crystal ball is broken :(
That said, while there's been complaints from every xpac I do think cata had a few more serious missteps than the others. While I've played it and mostly enjoyed it I never saw the level of emptiness on the servers I play on and never saw so many guilds go dead from inactive accounts (not people leaving, people unsubbing) as I have in cata. I don't think wow is going to die over it though, and I don't think the fact that MoP is pandas will kill it...now if the talent redo doesn't work out so well, the scenario thing doesn't work out so well, or there's something wrong with the raiding and/or pvp...then wow could wind up in trouble. It is way WAY too soon to tell, but I will say that blizz's year commitment idea was genious and will probably help them combat sub loss to swtor and their own d3 whilst also boosting d3 at the same time.
Post by
Br0tha
Never.
Post by
qwertydood
I'm sorry, but if you think that this game isn't currently starting to die, you really need to crawl out from whatever rock you've been hiding under since Wrath of the Lich King.
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229054
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Post by
Eldente
This.
I'd do the same thing with people who tell me WoW is going to die because of *insert reason here*.
Post by
slickrick0419
There will always be people playing it as long as servers are up.
If you mean dying as in not the biggest best game on the market at that time, then I would say Wow will die when Titan or Wow2 or whatever else you want to call it is made by Blizzard. Or of course some other company comes up with the "next-gen" type of mmo. (but my 2 cents are on Blizz)
Also in other words.......wow will die a very very long time from now.
Post by
Caranten
I think that only Blizzard can end Wow to pull the plug.
But it will be a few years from now :)
Post by
ZombieJesus
Whether it dies or not, I do not care.
I do know that it is impossible to play the same game forever. That being said WoW comes close enough having sucked up 3 years of my life.
Boredom sets in eventually. No amount of new content can restore the 'adventuring' feeling WoW gave me when it first came out. That is something only an entirely new MMO can bring.
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500786
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Post by
Rankkor
cuando florescan las amapolas olelolai lelolai ^_^
Post by
shamanixx
Judging by the changes being brought in on the next expansion, i would say wow will start dying big time then.
But tbh, wow has been dying ever since all these silly nerfs were implemented to please the casual players.
Make the game how it was. If u want high level gear, mounts, etc, then put some effort in, not just run a few dungeons to get points. Bring back class specific quests. Making hunters buy arrow, feed pets is one example.. Basically make the content from 1-84 progress in difficulty.
Post by
badbee
When did subscription numbers peak? Is there a timeline anywhere showing numbers corresponding to patches etc?
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138638
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Post by
Insilico
At the moment the QQers are quitting faster then Blizz can replace them. That's a majority.
You think an approx 9% decline in overall pop. is nothing for them to be concerned about.
You can bet your wages that they are.
1million sub losses equal 180 million in lost yearly revenues...try selling that to your stock holders along with how pandas are going to bring them all back.
And if you kiddies don't think a 10% drop is serious....
Do you know what the buyers and sellers on Wall Street do, if the market drops 10% in one day?
Post by
deathbeyond
Do you know what the buyers and sellers on Wall Street do, if the market drops 10% in one day?
The losses are not over a single day. And they are only counting sub losses. They are not taking into account companion/mount sales, plushies, or other merchandise coming from WoW. All in all, WoW will be around for a good while longer. And the servers certainly won't be shut down for another 10years most likely. They will just migrate low pop servers into other servers, and take down a set of their hardware, and rinse and repeat, until prolly about only 500k-1million people are left. Then I would expect them to shut it down. And I only say that large of a number because that's them losing all but 5-10% of their player base. That would seem like a good time to run up the white-flag and move on.
Post by
Nathanyal
Do you know what the buyers and sellers on Wall Street do, if the market drops 10% in one day?
I'm sure they don't post on forums about Wall Street dying, or do they?
Post by
Rankkor
Judging by the changes being brought in on the next expansion, i would say wow will start dying big time then.
ya know....... they said the same thing about TBC.....
and WOTLK......
and cataclysm.....
and here's the kicker: WOW STILL LIVES.
not only lives, its the behemoth of MMO's, without a single serious rival that can put up some competition, and by rival I mean an MMO that has at least 60% the amount of subscribers wow has. You'd be lucky to find an MMO with 10% the same amount of subs wow has.
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