Precisely my point, and that's the only smart thing to do for them. For us, it sucks, though.
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Precisely my point, and that's the only smart thing to do for them. For us, it sucks, though.
Yup. Throw Heroes of the Storm on the fire while we're at it. Way too expensive.
Need more RoS and less WoD.
That's a good way to drive me away and make me never come back.
Gentleman Jack
Member
Patch 7.0 Notes:
- Every Auction House NPC is now replaced with Black Market AH vendors.
- Character Transfers and Race Changes can now be bought with WoW Tokens.
Wulfric
Member
Ouch at those subscription numbers. I suppose it's to be expected when many players have completed most of the content, but the numbers are still jarring from Activision's point of view. That's probably why they are pushing for getting more expacs out the door sooner.
You can count me in the lapsed subscriber group once the fall semester starts. The expac is still at least a year away and I'll be too busy as it is.
You can count me in the lapsed subscriber group once the fall semester starts. The expac is still at least a year away and I'll be too busy as it is.
King Gilga
Member
I'm glad the subs have dropped so low, sends them a clear message.
The game is shit right now and they're doing nothing about it.
The game is shit right now and they're doing nothing about it.
This needs to happen.
1.5 tokens for a race change, 2 tokens for a transfer, 3 tokens to buy the new expansion, 4 tokens to buy LotV.
Do it!
Yep.
TatteredHat
Member
I've been unsubscribed since somewhere before 6.0 and I doubt I'll even come back for the new expansion barring some sort of miracle announcement.
If WoD is the future of WoW, it can die.
If WoD is the future of WoW, it can die.
I just hope that as subs go lower and lower, and they're not afraid to lose people anymore, they'll try new things.
For example, the whole "dump a whole continent at once with a raid or two, and another three months later with mayyybe a dungeon or two in between" seems horribly dated and ineffective to me. We breeze through it fast and then moan that we're bored. The whole formula doesn't really work anymore I think.
Maybe they could try new things someday.
For example, the whole "dump a whole continent at once with a raid or two, and another three months later with mayyybe a dungeon or two in between" seems horribly dated and ineffective to me. We breeze through it fast and then moan that we're bored. The whole formula doesn't really work anymore I think.
Maybe they could try new things someday.
Gentleman Jack
Member
Just noticed this patch note. Thank fuck, sometimes we roll with 11 and god damn if handling adds while people are in Kilrogg's eye doesn't get near-impossible.
No they wouldn't go that far but if WoW did go F2P they would put the nice unique looking mounts and pets on the in-game store and only allow players to earn in-game multiple reskins of boars and wolves and pets that are scaled down models of existing mobs. Maybe allow players to purchase gold too.
Am i missing some kind of joke here? I mean the game is already doing that.
Sarcasm is so hard to detect sometimes lol.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
the joke is you have to pay a subscription still for all of the free 2 play stuff
more plainly: its not "free to play" but everything that is associated with "free to play" is already in the game.
If anything seeing those sub numbers actually gives me a sense of relief. I'd be far more worried if subs were stable, would show that people are completely happy with being fed dog shit.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
How many teams do they have developing for WoW? If they had 2 teams on a biyearly schedule then it seems like the teams are
Vanilla->Lich King->Pandaria
Burning Crusade->Cata->WoD
The second team made 2 duds in a row, as far as i'm concerned. that would mean the next one is probably going to be great.
Jag
Member
I'm guessing the next expac was planned out and programmed way before this. Of course they know what their subs are on a daily basis. I'm sure every day ended with a call or email with the "daily sub count".
King Gilga
Member
He's saying the game is basically already F2P except they expect you to pay a sub too.
I don't really think they work that way, the only time I remember them mentioning multiple teams was in MoP when they said they had a team working on the next big patch (5.2, 5.4) and then a team working on the small patches (5.1, 5.3).
Oh also my favorite comment from the reddit post about the sub losses:
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
So many people in gaming side WoW thread that don't necessarily know what they're talking about. But that's how it has always been. When you get people that played for 3 months 5 years ago coming out of the woodwork like moths to a flame to sub numbers threads.
But yeah, Blizz fucked up bad with WoD. A lot riding on the next expac for a lot of players.
But yeah, Blizz fucked up bad with WoD. A lot riding on the next expac for a lot of players.
I'm starting to get really excited about the xpac reveal. Are there any believable leaks out? I haven't been keeping up much with news.
Yeah. WoW threads on gaming side often get ugly :lol
Robin64
Member
I still have hope that that's because they were all putting their time in this next one, with a minimal staff working on WoD. Guess we'll see.
There are too many believable leaks for them all to be true, but one of the leaks was posted by someone who leaked WoD info as well. I think it mentions a new warchief, possible Sylvanas boss, Demon Hunters, and quite a few other things, but I wouldn't be surprised if I was mixing details up with other "leaks".
Fuck that, unless there's a chance to side with her... WoW needs something like that. A faction split or something truly something massive.
Yeah, everything I listed were details I hope don't end up being true. =(
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Blizz, its time.
I hope what that means is we are going to learn about some of their actual gameplay plans for the next expansion. A new xpac announcement is fine and dandy but what they need right now is a good ol' fashioned Power Point presentation with a bunch of bullet points on how they plan to fix the huge list of problems WoD has.
I think it's a good idea. It just exists to lower queue times due to faction imbalance
I don't really give a shit about horde/alliance
Gentleman Jack
Member
Probably because it only affects casual PvP play, something that was decimated at the start of the expansion and is likely never coming back. The idea itself is a very good one.
I do. It's the core of the whole fucking franchise. Taking a shit on the lore to convenience players impacted by your inability to balance a racial is absolutely pathetic.
Blizz, its time.
An expansion of that scale would be amazing.
I've been saying get rid of factions for like 5 years now so anything that gets us closer to that I am all for. Mercenary mode is great, wish there was something similar for pve.
Lanrutcon
Member
Oh please. The world has faced worse and we still threw our feces at each other while everything was burning.
My vote would be: put in a class switching system like FF:ARR has.
Another temporary alliance would be something I could get on board, but I'd like it to be one formed & held together by a third playable faction. As much as I love HvA, I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to live my life as a Cenarion Druid sometimes. Your typical true neutral druid-esque faction.