Well WoW is still a good game over all. Just things like Old dungeouns like Blackrock Depths and Stratholme are better than new dungeouns. Or things letting players use bots in bgs then after years and years finally ban them. Luanch of WoW classic was terrible after saying was not going to be like last time. Plus many other things that are no brainers and things like that just add up over time so.....But just wrap your head around how the old content is better than new content, and that is expansion after expansion.
Guessing they could fix things and have done some good things since I stopped playing but How do they plan to get they player base back.
During Mists of Pandaria if I remember correctly they were losing more than 150k subs a month lost 4 million to 5 million in one expansion. Guild leaders would literally convince their guilds to go play another MMO so entire guilds left literally overnight.
It is just really wierd play max level dungeouns and they are really good but then you level another toon and realize old dungeouns were even better then make it max level again and feel like you are playing a watered down version of the original game.
Plus they do not even think about what they say. Say things like .....We are pruning our classes to get more new players at the cost of old palyers. Guess that means they turned their back on the people that have been there since the very begginning for money. Did not even work best thing that Happened lately in that game is Classic WoW. Though I must say some WoW class did have to many abilities, but even classes with the fewest abilities got pruned.
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@Joseline mmos absolutely DO die when the developers shut down the servers, something that happens more than you would think. City of Heroes, Tabula Rasa, Warhammer Online, Wildstar, all shut down. And that's not even counting games like Everquest Next that don't even make it out of development.
On the other hand you are right that, in the case of WoW at least, it will stay alive as long as people keep playing it. Even if Blizzard shut down their official servers, there are so many private WoW servers that it will likely survive past that point.
As I have mentioned a number of times (you must not be reading my posts )......Just like Atama said with CoH, WAR was resurrected from oblivion by a small dedicated team 4 years ago. They got permission to run it from both Mythic and GW so it's totally legal. It was renamed RoR (Return of Reckoning) and is doing quite well on a private server that is 100% free and 100% open to the public. I would know because that's what's been occupying my free time the last few months. All you have to do is create an account, DL the client and play!
Back on topic though, like some other MMOs, WoW may never truly die. It has enough of a dedicated following that it will probably be around for many many years to come. Hell I could even play EQ and DAoC still if I wanted to, both are still alive so the chance that WoW will shutter is next to nil.
Wandering Mist is correct though that MMOs do close. Ones that come to my mind are; Shadowbane (although I read there is an emulator for it), Wizardry Online, Matrix, Hellgate London (so much potential), Dark & Light (resurrected on Steam apparently), Vangard SoH (ALSO brought back on steam), seems the more old dead games I google, the more I find that have been re-opened on steam!
When i Started this thread before WoW classic camieout I had no Idea it was going to go all the way to Cata Classic or the addition of Hard Core WoW servers Already posted this but at the time Blizz said something like: We do not care if it is only ten people playing we are going to have classic servers.
Affter WoW Classic came out subscriptions double for WoW. Unreal..........
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Guessing they could fix things and have done some good things since I stopped playing but How do they plan to get they player base back.
During Mists of Pandaria if I remember correctly they were losing more than 150k subs a month lost 4 million to 5 million in one expansion. Guild leaders would literally convince their guilds to go play another MMO so entire guilds left literally overnight.
It is just really wierd play max level dungeouns and they are really good but then you level another toon and realize old dungeouns were even better then make it max level again and feel like you are playing a watered down version of the original game.
Plus they do not even think about what they say. Say things like .....We are pruning our classes to get more new players at the cost of old palyers. Guess that means they turned their back on the people that have been there since the very begginning for money. Did not even work best thing that Happened lately in that game is Classic WoW. Though I must say some WoW class did have to many abilities, but even classes with the fewest abilities got pruned.
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As I have mentioned a number of times (you must not be reading my posts
Back on topic though, like some other MMOs, WoW may never truly die. It has enough of a dedicated following that it will probably be around for many many years to come. Hell I could even play EQ and DAoC still if I wanted to, both are still alive so the chance that WoW will shutter is next to nil.
Wandering Mist is correct though that MMOs do close. Ones that come to my mind are; Shadowbane (although I read there is an emulator for it), Wizardry Online, Matrix, Hellgate London (so much potential), Dark & Light (resurrected on Steam apparently), Vangard SoH (ALSO brought back on steam), seems the more old dead games I google, the more I find that have been re-opened on steam!
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Affter WoW Classic came out subscriptions double for WoW. Unreal..........