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Blizzard announces Legion has sold 3.3M copies on Launch Day
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Orochinagis
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sigh, at least Legion gives you prep time and enjoy the expansion before full green fire and orcs and green stuff.
Dargor
Member
Those are some great numbers, hope they are able to keep players entertained during the expac this time.
Sadly, I won't be playing it this time around, strictly because of the lore they are pushing. I really dislike the things they have done to The Horde and its characters, to DKs and some other thingys that really rubbed me the wrong way.
But gameplay wise, it seems like its gonna be an awesome expac, what with their revamps to PvP, gear, the animations, etc.
Sadly, I won't be playing it this time around, strictly because of the lore they are pushing. I really dislike the things they have done to The Horde and its characters, to DKs and some other thingys that really rubbed me the wrong way.
But gameplay wise, it seems like its gonna be an awesome expac, what with their revamps to PvP, gear, the animations, etc.
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.
You say that like cataclysm set a high bar to pass
Gunslinger
Member
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.
FFXV and ESO?
I mean... c'mon blizz...
with that being said... legion is easily the best expansion since Cata.. possibly even better than Cata.
I think you mean Wotlk but it's still very early.
Gunslinger
Member
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.
Expansion is really fun so far, and what I'm hoping to be the big long-term hook for non-raiders in Mythic+ dungeons isn't even out yet. If those pan out, and 7.1 is as good as it looks, and they can somehow keep up a stream of content, I could see people maybe sticking around for a bit.
All else aside, Legion really seems like they know where they went wrong with WoD.
All else aside, Legion really seems like they know where they went wrong with WoD.
Still don't have this yet, I've lost most of my interest towards Wow few expansions ago. Still buy and play all of them though. The game is still great, but playing the same game for 12 years takes it's toll and i've spent unhealthy amount of time in Wow. Raiding would still interest me though, but we've had troubles getting steady lineup of 10 active raiders for some time. Joining another guild is not really an option for me, since I've been playing with friends only for the whole time. Really not interested in playing with people I don't know. It's not even half as good experience for me.
I also very much liked Cata at the start, because of the challenging 5man instances. Unfortunately they nerfed them though. But as you said, Legion could end up disappointing. Wow expansions really can't be judged based on the launch alone. People liked WoD too.
I also very much liked Cata at the start, because of the challenging 5man instances. Unfortunately they nerfed them though. But as you said, Legion could end up disappointing. Wow expansions really can't be judged based on the launch alone. People liked WoD too.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Yeah Cata was brilliant until a little after the ZG patch, that's when things started going downhill fast.
I scored a free week of game time from the GMs and after checking out all the changes I gotta say I am impressed by blizzards efforts here. I don't think ill buy legion just yet (WoD was fun until the raids released and then all the fun stuff became irrelevant overnight) but for the most part class changes are great and pvp is finally fun again.
If I do get legion I think it would be to pvp.
GreenTornadoX
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Ricerocket
Member
Havn't played WoW since launch of Cataclysm, got Legion recently and loving the fuck out of it, dangerous levels of addiction coming back.
Possumowner
Member
I find it a wonderful expansion,but I hadn't played since vanilla.But those sale numbers seem very well deserved.
Darkstorne
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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.
The division and destiny are not really MMOs though in the traditional sense. Console players really have very little in the way of that sort of experience (just FF11, 14, and ESO off the top of my head). Stuff like PSO and Destiny and The Division is basically a large multiplayer lobby with every 'thing' you do effectively being solo or small group. It might be semantics in many cases, but it truly makes a difference.