Basically the core audience is Warhammer or riot.
I mean... c'mon blizz... yes, there are 3.3m concurrent (or close enough) players who will be supporting you forever
with that being said... legion is easily the best expansion since Cata.. possibly even better than Cata.
very good numbers specially now-a-days when MMO genre is pretty much considered dead. We haven't had a big budget MMO release even since SWTOR and Wildstar failed miserably financially. I was there for SWTOR the game lost most of it's population in less than 6 months. Servers were like ghost towns before f2p.
I mean... c'mon blizz... yes, there are 3.3m concurrent (or close enough) players who will be supporting you forever
with that being said... legion is easily the best expansion since Cata.. possibly even better than Cata.
Everyone saying this expansion is good kinda makes me want to check out WoW.
FFXV and ESO?
So far, Legion is better than the second half of Cata.
I think the first half of Cata was just brilliant. Very hard to beat.
The second half of Legion could be pretty disappointing yet.
So far, Legion is better than the second half of Cata.
I think the first half of Cata was just brilliant. Very hard to beat.
The second half of Legion could be pretty disappointing yet.
No doubt. WoW isn't even close to hitting that extended super-hardcore only phase of its lifespan that all MMOs settle into by the end. SOE/Daybreak is still putting out Everquest expansions (or they were as of last fall) for what has to be less than 100k active players by this point.
I have to imagine that WoW will still be worth supporting for 500k-1M monthly players many years from now, albeit with scaled down, digital-only expansions (no fancy CGI intros) and fewer servers.
very good numbers specially now-a-days when MMO genre is pretty much considered dead.
Oh yeah forgout about FFXV but ESO is a b2p game now like GW2. I should have said p2p model is dead now. I mean WoW is still king even after bleeding subs for years.
I'm always confused by comments like these. MMOs are still insanely popular, just shifting towards more of a console market courtesy of games like Destiny and the Division. And as for subscription MMOs, both WoW and FFXIV are performing incredibly well. I'll bet ESO has a much higher subscriber number than most of us would guess too, and it's performing well enough financially through a primarily B2P model that it can manage four mini expansions per year. That's damn impressive, and as a WoW player I kind of envy that content update model.
On top of that, even at its lowest points WoW has had over 5 million monthly subscribers minimum. That is still a godly sum of profit that any game publisher would sell their soul to earn. It's inevitably closer to 10 million now that we're at the start of a new expansion.