World of Warcraft: Current Year

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Itzena_sl

shitlord
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I've been playing for the last month or so and what was one of the oldest/original and busiest European servers (Terenas) is dead. Out of my guild of varying 50-100 members only two have been online. The AH is dead, zones are only busy with cross server people, even the MoP zones (which don't seem to have been included in the cross server functionality) are dead.

LFR and cross server are the life support for WoW at the moment.


I don't believe for a second they still have 8mill subscribers. I suspect those numbers are massaged massively. Here's a clue - Kotick himself said recently that they expect an even bigger drop off of subscribers in the near future.
Sorry that you're on a shitty server. Mine's doing great, thanks.

E: Oh no wonder. Terenas is one of the few remaining ones withAlliance outnumbering Horde2-3:1
Hardly surprising that as soon as cross-realm stuff came into play, all the people who used to hang around to benefit from the retarded population imbalance on your server then fucked off.

E2: Oh look -http://www.warcraftrealms.com/weekly...p?serverid=289
Server pop has been mostly consistent for the last year at least.
 

Caeden

Golden Baronet of the Realm
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12,534
There's gonna be a glorious gnashing of teeth after the "merges" happen. I can't wait. I may start a Mage or rogue. One of the few I've never touched.
 

Chakravartin_sl

shitlord
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Not sure if you know this or not, but RR doesn't have an MVP program. You don't need to hug them blue nuts so tight here, you spineless bootlick.
 

tower

Golden Knight of the Realm
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158
The problem with the charms is it's a very slippery slope.

"I don't want to farm these items that increase my drops.. I'll just buy them"

"I missed my raid this week.. I'll just buy those shoulders"

"Man I really don't want to grind.. I'll just buy level 95"
"They're just putting in vanity items and mounts, they'll never add items you can get in-game while they have a sub"
 

bayr_sl

shitlord
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I don't know anyone who plays wow. I don't know how they can pretend the population hasn't dropped significantly from the social phenomenom it was 3-4 years ago. No one talks about it, no one plays it, it's become largely irrelevant in the overall gaming scene.
 

tower

Golden Knight of the Realm
381
158
Because all the other MMOs suck and make watered down versions of WoW.

LoL, DOTA 2, etc have far eclipsed it and I think there's an overlap in playerbase there. Maybe not general MMO players, but certainly WoW players.
 

Ukerric

Bearded Ape
<Silver Donator>
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10,289
So what's the Next Next Big Thing after ... EQN is F2P from the start?
You think the age of sub-based MMOs is still with us? That model of business is dying its last grasps, and the problem that every MMO that think it can be sub-based, and faces F2P conversion after 3 months gets the conversion badly done.

Online game services went from "pay-by-the-hour-played" to "pay-flat-rate" and are now headed to "pay-when-you-want". The problems of competition: as the market matures, profit margins shrink. Gone are the heady days of getting million of people to pay you upfront 15$/month. Won't happen again, just like you don't get games to pay by the hour anymore.

The next age is B2P for triple-A stuff, and F2P for the lower budget trash.
 

alavaz

Trakanon Raider
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714
I don't know anyone who plays wow. I don't know how they can pretend the population hasn't dropped significantly from the social phenomenom it was 3-4 years ago. No one talks about it, no one plays it, it's become largely irrelevant in the overall gaming scene.
I'm sure you are polling your large base of friends and all but log on to any other MMO and then log on to WoW and tell me which one feels largely irrelevant.
 

earthfell

Golden Knight of the Realm
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thanks!

what do u recommend for bumping to 80? the classes (with levels) i dont have at 80 are
priest- 41
hunter- 65
rogue- 57
paladin- 51
dk- 63

i dont know the current state for any of the classes.