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With World of Warcraft fading, what will Blizzard do next?

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Re: With World of Warcraft fading, what will Blizzard do next?

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Post by hellrich »

Zimahl wrote: post #8

I wouldn't expect WoW to lose any more players in the next quarter due to some austerity measures they are doing (the Diablo 3 offer, Scroll of Resurrection) but it is clear that see a down trend and are trying to stem the tide. They are not planning any new content until the next expansion which we can assume will be the standard November release (although no confirmation yet). That doesn't bode well since even I, a…

MoP (next expansion) beta started today, looks more like a summer release to me.

Re: With World of Warcraft fading, what will Blizzard do next?

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Post by noarchy »

Despite the opening of the article, I wouldn't put much stock in The Old Republic being a long-term threat to WoW. Short term, it probably did take some players from WoW. Anyone who is currently playing TOR knows that the server populations have been steadily declining, particularly since the end of the first month. It isn't the same catastrophic decline that other would-be WoW challengers had, but it isn't going to hold sky-high subscriber numbers, either.

Re: With World of Warcraft fading, what will Blizzard do next?

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Post by mrsebastian »

joblessjunkie wrote: post #21

This is completely off topic, but does anyone know how to prevent extreme tech from redirecting my iPad to their awful mobile version every time?

AFAIK (I'm the editor there) there's no easy way around it. I think we've recently rolled out another mobile layout -- but only for non-iPad devices (iPhone, Android, etc.)

It's OnSwipe for WordPress, incidentally. Maybe there's a local hack you can perform to disable it -- setting a cookie, or something.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

Re: With World of Warcraft fading, what will Blizzard do next?

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Post by duaneb »

rbii wrote: post #4
ketralnis wrote: post #3

> Subscription figures have fallen from 12 million just after the release of the last expansion to 10.2 million That's probably a cycle that follows every expansion: all of the old players come back, play it, get bored again and leave. I'm not sure this is evidence that it's "fading" But they've already announced their next game, Diablo III, and they tend to only have a few games in their peak at a time anyway, so we…

10.2 is the lowest it's ever been. Usually the numbers rise and fall depending on what other games are released -- every time a big-title MMO comes out, WoW generally loses 1-2 million players to it (and then they come back). If the figure stays around 10 mil (i.e. if SWTOR keeps them), I guess that'll be 'proof' that WoW is fading.

Fading is, of course, very relative. A "fading" wow is still extremely strong.

Re: With World of Warcraft fading, what will Blizzard do next?

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Post by anonymoushn »

RegEx wrote: post #24
Zimahl wrote: post #8

I wouldn't expect WoW to lose any more players in the next quarter due to some austerity measures they are doing (the Diablo 3 offer, Scroll of Resurrection) but it is clear that see a down trend and are trying to stem the tide. They are not planning any new content until the next expansion which we can assume will be the standard November release (although no confirmation yet). That doesn't bode well since even I, a…

Is Deathwing the current final boss? I used to play WoW back in BC, and I LOVED it (a little too much to be frank, grades suffered quite a bit). The triumph of your guild taking down a boss after struggling with it for weeks couldn't be matched. After Wrath came out, content was getting cleared so quickly that I didn't find it fun anymore. I'm currently having a blast with SC2 though, with a large thanks to the espor…

Deathwing is the final boss of the current expansion. Did you find that WotLK hard modes were boring? I thought they were pretty good other than ToC.

Re: With World of Warcraft fading, what will Blizzard do next?

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Post by pagekalisedown »

mrsebastian wrote: post #35
joblessjunkie wrote: post #21

This is completely off topic, but does anyone know how to prevent extreme tech from redirecting my iPad to their awful mobile version every time?

AFAIK (I'm the editor there) there's no easy way around it. I think we've recently rolled out another mobile layout -- but only for non-iPad devices (iPhone, Android, etc.) It's OnSwipe for WordPress, incidentally. Maybe there's a local hack you can perform to disable it -- setting a cookie, or something. Sorry I can't be of more help.

I don't mean to be inflammatory, but OnSwipe is the bane of my internet experience. PLEASE get rid of it.

Re: With World of Warcraft fading, what will Blizzard do next?

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Post by neworbit »

rbii wrote: post #4
ketralnis wrote: post #3

> Subscription figures have fallen from 12 million just after the release of the last expansion to 10.2 million That's probably a cycle that follows every expansion: all of the old players come back, play it, get bored again and leave. I'm not sure this is evidence that it's "fading" But they've already announced their next game, Diablo III, and they tend to only have a few games in their peak at a time anyway, so we…

10.2 is the lowest it's ever been. Usually the numbers rise and fall depending on what other games are released -- every time a big-title MMO comes out, WoW generally loses 1-2 million players to it (and then they come back). If the figure stays around 10 mil (i.e. if SWTOR keeps them), I guess that'll be 'proof' that WoW is fading.

Surely you don't mean "ever been"? I don't know how long it took them to get to ten million players in the first place but I'm imagining it wasn't on day one :)

And semantic point aside, ten million users is still mighty impressive!

Re: With World of Warcraft fading, what will Blizzard do next?

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Post by RegEx »

anonymoushn wrote: post #37
RegEx wrote: post #24

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Is Deathwing the current final boss? I used to play WoW back in BC, and I LOVED it (a little too much to be frank, grades suffered quite a bit). The triumph of your guild taking down a boss after struggling with it for weeks couldn't be matched. After Wrath came out, content was getting cleared so quickly that I didn't find it fun anymore. I'm currently having a blast with SC2 though, with a large thanks to the espor…

Deathwing is the final boss of the current expansion. Did you find that WotLK hard modes were boring? I thought they were pretty good other than ToC.

I quit fairly early in Wrath when Naxx was cleared on our relatively casual server on day1 or day2. Good guilds still took a while to get through Kara in BC because of attunements, etc. I felt that would set the tone for the rest of Wrath so I jumped ship.
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