9M gone vs. 3M that stayed

[Hydra9268]

Do you really think the people who left would come back if they release a vanilla server? you are very very wrong mate

I would. A quarter million people who signed that petition would. People who don't want to play on private servers would pay to play on an official legacy server.

Side note. I'm sure many retail players bought Dark Souls 3 and probably decided not to resub because retail WOW is too easy. Those people would definitely come back to vanilla. It's much harder to play; brutal and relentless... like Dark Souls 3.

[Holmes]

they lost way more than 9M. 9M s just a peak-to-peak difference. infact there played like 100M different ppl WoW over the years. so they infact lost like 97M, and 3M stood

[Norjak]

Why is Blizzard catering to the 3M players that remain playing the game? Wouldn't it be better to get the 9M that they lost back and screw the 3M Farmville players who pretend to be actual gamers. Losing the game as it is wouldn't be a loss to their current player base, since they can be satisfied any content out there.

The argument would be that if they don't keep evolving & developing the game, it will grow stale & people will leave for that reason. The devs they have are trying to do this but in the process they are arguably making it worse.
The thing they aren't taking into consideration is that there is a whole generation of new players coming in who can never experience Vanilla unless somebody else gives it to them.

[Sham]

Maybe instead of whining non stop you people go check Legion expansion which is bloody amazing in all regards and fixes WoDs "farmville"?

[Dr. Doom]

Maybe instead of whining non stop you people go check Legion expansion which is bloody amazing in all regards and fixes WoDs "farmville"?

It's 4 levelling areas, the lowest amount ever released with an expansion, with only 2 raids at release once more.
You will get the one weapon you'll use for the entire expansion after a 15 minute quest. Said weapon requires you to do Order Hall missions that are a carbon copy of Garrison mission table. The missions can have a duration of several days straight before you can get the follow up quests. If you do not do the missions, your artifact will not have a 3rd socket

The fact people can put faith in Blizzard's newer expacs, after 3 straight dissapointments is nothing short of amazing. The proof that denial is a tool that corporations can always rely on regarding gullible consumers that can't process information before making a pre-purchase.

[Sham]

Maybe instead of whining non stop you people go check Legion expansion which is bloody amazing in all regards and fixes WoDs "farmville"?

It's 4 levelling areas, the lowest amount ever released with an expansion, with only 2 raids at release once more.
You will get the one weapon you'll use for the entire expansion after a 15 minute quest. Said weapon requires you to do Order Hall missions that are a carbon copy of Garrison mission table. The missions can have a duration of several days straight before you can get the follow up quests. If you do not do the missions, your artifact will not have a 3rd socket
The fact people can put faith in Blizzard's newer expacs, after 3 straight dissapointments is nothing short of amazing. The proof that denial is a tool that corporations can always rely on regarding gullible consumers that can't process information before making a pre-purchase.

Maybe for you they were disappointment. For me Cataclysm was the best WoW expansion and MoP is 2d place. Even WoD was good, they just dropped the ball with garrisons. But Blizzard clearly realised it and new system with world quests is miles better.

I dont blindly trust BLizzard, I saw hundreds of Legion videos. Expansion looks amazing, might be the best one yet.

[Dr. Doom]

Maybe for you they were disappointment. For me Cataclysm was the best WoW expansion and MoP is 2d place. Even WoD was good, they just dropped the ball with garrisons. But Blizzard clearly realised it and new system with world quests is miles better.

I dont blindly trust BLizzard, I saw hundreds of Legion videos. Expansion looks amazing, might be the best one yet.

Alright then. So long as you have fun. Doubt Legion will reverse the trend of people playing this game less and less.

[hermitking79]

where are you getting 3mill from ? i see censusplus shows 1.2mill players between US and EU left active , pretty sure if a new scan was done on each server and the info uploaded to censusplus that number would drop quite a lot , couldnt find no active player count on Chinese Realms ,Taiwanese Realms,Korean Realms tho , at a guess going by the wow token prices on the Taiwanese Realms,Korean Realms there is not enough players playing and buying wow tokens to make gold which could be an indication of a extremely low playerbase there

[Sham]

Pretty sure WoW atm hovering at around 5 mil subs. With blockbaster movie coming in summer, new books, Legion actually looking good, I wont be surprised if WoW sub numbers skyrocket to 12 mil in autumn

[Docholy]

Most people will return to a TBC server, to be honest. Vanilla is great and it will bring back a lot of people, but additional people will return to TBC and WOTLK content.