***World of Warcraft : Warlords of Draenor***

oxygene said:
HOI!
I'm an orc :p Have been since Beta!
So forgive my curiosity but what has actually happened to professions that makes them worthless / pointless in this one?
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They don't mean anything now, you can pick a profession building in your garrison and craft most of the 100 stuff without having the profession on your character.
 
So if you've used Honorbuddy you going to get banned then. Bunch of 6 month bans just handed out, rather funny. 6 months is nothing, should have had their accounts perma banned and the gold given to me
 
I don't think the game is dead. I'm still enjoying it. Granted more casual then previous releases. But lets be honest 6 Mil paying subscribers is hardly a dead game, or a client base you can afford to just give up on.
 
Engy Benjie said:
I don't think the game is dead. I'm still enjoying it. Granted more casual then previous releases. But lets be honest 6 Mil paying subscribers is hardly a dead game, or a client base you can afford to just give up on.
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He said "slowly dying", not "dead".

They need to get cracking on a new MMO franchise and make it something totally new and fresh. I'm not convinced Blizzard have it in them any more.
 
New content is needed. the paid items is a joke and I feel people have just got bored of it. It's still a great game my mate let me have a play of his acc last night and nostaligia was at a good high for me but it just doesn't seem as gripping as it used to be.
 
One thing that puts me off restarting WoW is that it's so damned complicated now. I know there has been a degree of streamlining but there's still so much to learn - especially for casuals that have been away for months or years.

Whenever I've gone back I've had to spend a significant amount of time alt-tabbed to my desktop searching for information on gemming, talents, gear, tactics - you name it. Time I'm not playing.
 
Edrof said:
One thing that puts me off restarting WoW is that it's so damned complicated now. I know there has been a degree of streamlining but there's still so much to learn - especially for casuals that have been away for months or years.

Whenever I've gone back I've had to spend a significant amount of time alt-tabbed to my desktop searching for information on gemming, talents, gear, tactics - you name it. Time I'm not playing.
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Easier solution is to add the .exe as a game on steam. Then you can use the ability of just shift + tab and use Steams browser :p
 
Not sure you can say the game is 'dead' when it is still raking in:

6,000,000 x £8.99 x 12

= £648,000,000

Then every 4-5 years add on 10,000,000 x £30

= £300,000,000

I'd imagine Blizzard would only consider it 'dead' if it was bringing in a third of that.

They don't make that many games (Diablo, Starcraft), so they're probably not going to risk losing their cash cow for a similar venture.
 
Sad point is its Activision calling the shots now. You better be sure the Wow Token is a test platform for the next expansion, moving the majority of paid services into gold services which you will spend more on the tokens to obtain etc.

BTW lovin the blizz forums at the moment for all the butt hurt little botters who have been banned in the recent wave, its hilarious stuff :)
 
The loss of 3 million subs is neither here nor there for Blizzard... The stress servers were under when the expansion was released showed that they never dreamed of 3 million extra subs at launch. If you look at graphs on MMO-Champ, and you ignore the blip when WoD was released, it just has the same steady decline. It'll level off around the 4 million mark I reckon - and it depends wether Blizzard still see it as profitable at this sub level. (I've just pulled 4 million out of thin air, but I think it would be about right)
 
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