Grabbing specific gear for specific encounters was really cool. I remember mage tanking in Gruul and gaining the Stamina gear made me feel awesome.
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Blizzard: World of Warcraft up to 7.4 million subscribers this quarter
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Grabbing specific gear for specific encounters was really cool. I remember mage tanking in Gruul and gaining the Stamina gear made me feel awesome.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
I was gifted a free month by blizz so I wonder if I'm counted in those statistics?
I can't stand this game anymore, 30 free days and I only managed to play 40 minutes last week.
Not because I had no time, but because the game is SO FUCKING BORING.
I can't stand this game anymore, 30 free days and I only managed to play 40 minutes last week.
Not because I had no time, but because the game is SO FUCKING BORING.
I've played every expansion on launch day mate, not true at all, queues from the millions....AND MILLIONS of people wanting to play is the main issue launch day, plus some bugs.
FAKE EDIT - that was a fast edit.
JuanLatino
Member
How many Subscribers does a MMORP need to be considered succesfull? or atleast to make money?
Final Fantasy A Realm Reborn e.g crossed 2 Mio subscribers in April
Final Fantasy A Realm Reborn e.g crossed 2 Mio subscribers in April
UnrealEck
Member
More than WoW. Obviously.
NumberThree
Member
It could be cool if it was implemented better than "Now go do this instance 15 levels below your level and hope the right item drops because that's fun"
Ding ding ding.
Ask any Vanilla Paladin what they did during raids, and get ready to hear about the horrors of the five minute Blessing cycle they'd need to apply to 40 people.
Sourtreats
Member
Been playing on and off since later 2006. Still a great game, I'm aware that I have probably spent over £300+ in subscriptions and expansions but I still enjoy it.
Also, Vanilla sucked.
Also, Vanilla sucked.
Moff
Member
I think vanilla was fine, the game has also greatly improved over the course of vanilla. AQ40 and naxxramas were simply great encounter-, design- and gameplay wise. and at least my class, the mage, evolved a lot an was super fun in those raids, rolling ignites anyone? amazing.
I am aware that especially Burning crusade improved WOW a lot in general, but to me at least, there is still the community aspect, and although I completely agree that this is completely subjective to me and my server, I like to think that same server battlegrounds helped a ton to form a great community. that was just destroyed after vanilla. all the people I know in that game, both horde and alliance, I know from vanilla PVP, and boy those were glorious times. best thing I ever did in any game.
I am aware that especially Burning crusade improved WOW a lot in general, but to me at least, there is still the community aspect, and although I completely agree that this is completely subjective to me and my server, I like to think that same server battlegrounds helped a ton to form a great community. that was just destroyed after vanilla. all the people I know in that game, both horde and alliance, I know from vanilla PVP, and boy those were glorious times. best thing I ever did in any game.
Portugeezer
Member
The king is dead. Long live the king.
Gipsy Danger
Member
But seriously. Will check out the patch when I get home and have already bought the expansion so hope it's good. Just need to get levelling. Good to see the game is still doing well, I think it still deserves it.
Sentenza
Member
There are developers who would kill to have half of that on their prime, to say it all.
TatteredHat
Member
Raiding in WoW reached its pinnacle in Ulduar, that raid was just so wonderfully done with the organic integration of hard modes and variety of encounter design. Beating Algalon without anyone dying was so satisfying. I don't think we'll ever get a raid that rivals it.
I loved my Paladin in vanilla!! In raids I liked following DPSers around throwing heals/cleanse at them, plus all 3 tier sets were sexy. I always had the most healing done, often with the least overhealing done. That was my way of measuring success, heh. In the later expansions i found that you can't realistically anticipate damage, but have to just spam the heal button at all times otherwise they'd get nuked before there's time to react. At any rate I consider it alot worse now.
In BGs it was even more fun as I harassed opponents with stuns, trolling them by grabbing their attention, let them waste time on me and then bubble / BoP / BoF out of the way. That bought precious time for the others to grab a graveyard / the flag.
WoW doesn't revolve around raiding for everyone.
Omotesando
Member
Wow, I never expected Wow to actually gain in subscribers.
No wonder they canceled Titan.
No wonder they canceled Titan.
UnrealEck
Member
Bosses have specific abilities you need to learn as a healer, a tank or a DPS regardless. If you're playing at the heroic level, you're going to benefit your guild greatly if you know how to heal based on the situation and concerve mana.
I really don't see how this got worse.
Bosses are way better now than they were in vanilla. Class abilities and talents are also more thoughtout and aren't as static.
AnthonypUK
Member
can people stop saying 7.4million x $15 x 12 months.
because its not
because its not
samurai1226
Member
I guess titan was kinda more social media oriented than WoW, but now that social media isnt something fresh and exiting anymore it had no chance to survive.
I think its great that they still have so much effort in improving wow and I still enjoy playing wow, but i really hope there will be another MMO from Blizzard in the future - They are the only ones who can make an MMO as good as WoW (I lost interesent in every other MMO i tried like SWTOR after a really short time)
TheContact
Member
Awesome news. Hopefully it feat up to 8 at least with WoD. This expansion is looking like the best one yet
DonasaurusRex
Online Ho Champ
so what its a pay to play game 7million 10 year later is amazing, and amazing run.
BattleMonkey
Member
Subs go up right before expansion, this is nothing new. Be interesting to see how the expansion performs with how low Pandas sold compared to previous expansions.
And flopped MMOs such as Wildstar and ESO etc.
KojiKnight
Member
As a druid main from vanilla, we had it worse than them. We were worse healers, worse DPS, and we weren't even considered tanks. In PvP the joke was that Druids were the most 'feared' class since even hunters could cast 'scare animal' on us. And don't even get me started on our stats... Every piece of gear we owned had strength, intellect, and spirit and weapons were nothing more than stat sticks (and our moves didn't even scale with gear!)
End game Druids existed for casting Innervate on the real healers during raid fights and nothing else. Between the 3 minute cool down on it, we were allowed to toss sub-par heals and have our HoTs denied because "A stronger version of that effect is already on that target".
CmdrShepard
Member
This is interesting this was not brought up before now. I would not be surprised if this is the cause of the spike. The description nowhere mentions sub numbers - it mentions recent amount of players. Could very easily be counting the multitude of people that went back for the free month that almost anyone with a Blizzard game got an email from.
SiKotikJ30
Member
I played last night for the first time in a while. Enjoyed it, will be playing WoD. Not a huge fan of the new models, though. The male NE run animation is so goofy I'm stunned it made it into the live game.
lol I remember Wildstar aficionados assuring me to their very end of their lives that it was going to be THE MMO.
Vanilla mostly did, at least for people with PvE tastes.
But unless everyone resubbed at the last minute, this is a spike *before* either A or B have occurred.
silvermember
Banned
I remember those same players claiming it will totally blow ever game ever. That catering to the hardcore or the extreme minority was a great idea. How 40 man raids was the thing.
Wildstar was suppose to defile years of WOW clone failures and why 40 man instance raids did not exist.
I want to sit down and have a nice little cup of coffee with the animators and manager responsible for the new night elf animations. You know, just go over things like what was their thought process and such. Then I would calmly leave, wish them a good day, and leave them 30 dollars so they can go ahead and take that to their cashier, add credit into my Battle.net account, and then automatically change the faction of my main toon so I can be an Orc or undead instead cause goddamn did they fuck night elfs up. 
TheContact
Member
Can't wait to go home and try this. Is molten core and the new bg out yet? I'm in the beta but barely did the first zone because I want it to be fresh when the expansion comes out
KojiKnight
Member
Just another game in the pile of "WoW killers"... has any game or series ever wracked up as many 'killers'?
UnrealEck
Member
I agree with you to an extent but these figures are pre-A and B.
Substandard
Member
I think the fact that theyare increasing the size of the WoW team and cancelled "Titan" is leading to some old people coming back too.
For I while I was just going to wait for their next MMO but it seems like they are recommitting to WoW with no plans to make another one in the near future.
Plus I haven't really played since cata launched and wanted to see what was up. With them throwing in panderia for most old players and the chopper mount promo, etc. it seemed like as good a time as any.
For I while I was just going to wait for their next MMO but it seems like they are recommitting to WoW with no plans to make another one in the near future.
Plus I haven't really played since cata launched and wanted to see what was up. With them throwing in panderia for most old players and the chopper mount promo, etc. it seemed like as good a time as any.
KojiKnight
Member
With Blizzcon less than a month away and them officially canceling the MMO they never really announced to begin with, I'm really expecting them to announce something new big this year in regards to WoW (especially since Blizzcon is AFTER WoD launches).
You still see plenty of people in low lvl zones thanks to all the cross servers stuff going on. As for finding groups... just use the Dungeon Finder and in 5-10 mins, you're in a dungeon with 4 other people.
Professor Lich
Member
I wonder if Blizzard will ever bring smaller time slots to the US. I'd like to play WoD for a little bit since I was a player for eight years, but I really don't want to have a whole month tempt me to fall back in. I've been clean a whole year now and I can't fall victim to addiction again!
Would be even cooler if you could buy hours and they only counted when you're online. I know overseas Internet cafes are huge but there must be a reason why that system isn't here either. Or I just never seen it.
Would be even cooler if you could buy hours and they only counted when you're online. I know overseas Internet cafes are huge but there must be a reason why that system isn't here either. Or I just never seen it.
Erm, it's still roughly 2/3rds. I'd say that's at least somewhere near.
Throne of Thunder was pretty amazing.
Actually almost all of the raid bosses in Mists of Pandaria have been great. But fuck fuck fuck Lei Shi, terrible boss. Ugh
Blizzcon is the week before WoD. Blizzcon: Nov 7/8, WoD: Nov 13
They might talk about patch 6.1 but that's probably it in terms of future content.
TheContact
Member
Pandaria was a stupid concept. This feels more like Warcraft and more nostalgic. Not sure what they were thinking with Pandadia. I just think they always wanted to add pandas to their game. I remember they wanted to do that a loonng time ago but something about China stopped them
KojiKnight
Member
For some reason I was thinking those two dates were reversed. I still think with it that close to release we'll see a lot less about what's going to be there day one and what's going to be in the future of the series. I don't think titan was cancelled the day they announced it was cancelled, there was likely a winding down for a long period over the last year, and I expect we'll hear of what their plans are for all those developers.
Freeing up one of their five teams from Titan will mean big things... especially since it wasn't their smallest team.