Is WoW dying?

jakub1 · Sep 22, 2018

Olaf said: ↑

Old WoW players are definitely moving on to other/better things. New gamer on the other hand, are getting into WoW. Games like WoW will always have a huge fan base.
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I agree WoW have lost fans but it's still big

Olaf · Sep 25, 2018

Just like @EfficientNinja said, Battle Royale style has taken over. That is almost what everyone is playing right now.

mynameisshieldler · Oct 9, 2018

Azrile said: ↑

When WoD launched, WOW gained like 2.7 million players. A few months later, WOW lost 3.0 million players. I think the theme was a great choice, but the features they added and the changes they made were a negative.

WOW is never dying. It currently has about 8.0 million subscribers... there are games alive that have less than .2 million subscribers.. in other words, WOW is 40 times bigger than games that still have a development team. In fact, most of those games have more development, patches and update than WOW.

It has always been my opinion that WOW is too big, which allowed them to hire too many middle-managers.. guys who actually add no content to the game, but who make things slower for the actual developers who do the work. In most games, a piece of artwork is created and probably only has 1 person who checks it. WOW probably has layers and layers of ´approval´ before stuff gets added to the game. They recently redid character model which took a HUGE amount of time for that very reason.
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I see.

mynameisshieldler · Oct 9, 2018

Olaf said: ↑

Just like @EfficientNinja said, Battle Royale style has taken over. That is almost what everyone is playing right now.
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True.

walter12 · Oct 9, 2018

Olaf said: ↑

Just like @EfficientNinja said, Battle Royale style has taken over. That is almost what everyone is playing right now.
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Almost everyone is at the moment

Miro · Oct 12, 2018

Wow is a trash game.. I'm not sure why people still playing this shit

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Olaf · Nov 6, 2018

walter12 said: ↑

Almost everyone is at the moment
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Well, the gameplay is quite addictive so I kind of understand why it is so huge.

Olaf · Nov 6, 2018

mynameisshieldler said: ↑

True.
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Battle Royale kind of gaming is taking over.

Writeratyourservice · Nov 9, 2018

tubestud said: ↑

Far from it. Warlords of Draenor brought the biggest spike in players ever seen in the history of WoW. Trouble is, most of them left after a short while.
They hype building was masterfully done. So were the quests, the raids, the music everything. These created that spike and it speaks volumes about the game's potential to attract players.
Sadly, the drop in players right after speaks volumes about the lack of character progression in the game. There's just nothing to do anymore. At least nothing related to the new expansion. Once you max everything out, all you're left to do is send your followers on adventures that you yourself should be going on.
WoW can still attract players, but can't keep them as interested , or as busy, as it used to.
I won't die, not for a long time. But it could be so much better.
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I agree.

Writeratyourservice · Nov 9, 2018

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Warlords of Draenor is by far the greatest expansion since Burning Crusade. Yes I can concur that WoW has went through a major decline leading up into Cataclysm and throughout Mists of Pandaria. Burning Crusade was by far the glory days of WoW. Sure Vanilla (Original WoW) included of course, but Burning Crusade was amazing. Wrath of the Lich King was great to but you could feel the change of the game from focusing on those that put their time and effort into the game, being able to show for it, shifting towards meeting the needs of the casual player. Gear was baselined throughout. It was easier for casual and new players to get gear, and near equivalent to what the "hardcore" player was getting through countless hours of trial and error in raids to get their loot in a much harder and difficult setting. Then Blizzard simplified the stats of gear, talents you could pick, so on and so fourth. It really hurt the community and a lot of hardcore, dedicated players through in the towel simply because the game lost its "Epic'ness" so to speak.

Sure the lore always remained engaging and fascinating, that is what I myself love about the game so much (avid WoW lore fan haha) but the game play started to feel a major decline. Specific classes that seemed to just get more love from Blizzard development team, stayed top dogs in the PVP arena spectrum of the game, where classes that had blatant quality of life issues with them, or just flat out no ability to perform in high demand pvp, were left to rot so to speak. For instance if you played a shaman in Cataclysm or Mists of Pandaria, unless you were restoration specc, you never saw the dawn of over a 1700 rated arena team.

Now enters Warlords of Draenor. I don't know what happened, I assume Blizzard realized they had to do something to stop the decline of their player base. As the subscription base dropped from over 13 million during "Wrath of the Lich King" days to almost 7 million proceeding from Cataclysm into Mists of Pandaria. However, whatever the case may be. Blizzard go their "stuff" together and seem to be taking the game and every aspect of it in a much more hands on way. Imbalances of classes, whether it be damage wise, mechanics, etc. You name it, they are evaluated almost on a weekly basis and there are constant hit fixes and patches to address issues in game. Where as in previous patches, you could wait months for an issue to even be addressed, and when it was, they wouldn't if hardly at all, fix the problem. Then you would wait months again, praying that "well maybe in the next patch they will hear my cries" haha xD.

Warlords of Draenor's lore is outstanding, nostalgic, and brings the old feeling of WoW back. Granite it is not literally back to the glory days, but it is leaps and bounds in the right direction and thusly, brought World of Warcraft back on track, in the right direction.
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I see.

Bravosi · Dec 5, 2018

World of Warcraft has been in decline indeed. But let's be honest, World of Warcraft is still popular enough to sustain itself.

walter12 · Dec 5, 2018

The game is no where dying

jakub1 · Dec 5, 2018

walter12 said: ↑

The game is no where dying
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The playerbase is lower but still popular

overcast · Dec 6, 2018

I see each year the game is dying. You can clearly see people are moving towards the pubg. Not even minecraft is being played now.

Bravosi · Dec 6, 2018

overcast said: ↑

I see each year the game is dying. You can clearly see people are moving towards the pubg. Not even minecraft is being played now.
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Minecraft unlike WoW is now more popular as a private server sort of thing. A run between the people who know each other. World of Warcraft isn't destined to die, even if it declines in population it will stay, as it already surpassed numerous mmos.

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