World of Warcraft: Current Year
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Ukerric
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Even Q1 is doubtful, unless they unleash the beta at Blizzcon (which they might). My guess is more like May or June.
The pre-expansion event is supposed to basically be a full patch this time though, rather that just a sideshow i.e. 7.0 will be the "pre-expansion" content (and it is supposed to be content - an entire new zone, iirc, as well as the stuff happening in the existing world) while actually being the first patch of the expansion while the expansion itself unlocks in 7.1 (or 7.0.whatever).
And I wouldn't be entirely surprised if the Legion beta did start right after Blizzcon - Overwatch F&F beta started early when they could haveveryeasily held that back a week and a bit and hadthatas the big launch, so they might have something else planned for next weekend.
And I wouldn't be entirely surprised if the Legion beta did start right after Blizzcon - Overwatch F&F beta started early when they could haveveryeasily held that back a week and a bit and hadthatas the big launch, so they might have something else planned for next weekend.
Kuro
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DKs are fine overall. Frost is only better than Unholy on 2-3 target Cleave Fights, so most of what you see is Unholy since it has higher single-target damage and 4+ target damage. Unholy/Breath of Sindragosa burst during Ring Activations is just too sexy. Frost was ludicrous going into Hellfire Citadel Patch, but got a solid thwack from the nerf bat. Drinking Horn, which was amazing for Frost, also got nerfed. Once an Unholy DK gets his archimonde trinket, the Xul'horac meters become hilarious (and no other fight, hooray terrible trinket). Pretty much every raid is better with a DK or two, thanks to DeathGrip+AOE DeathGrip.
Kuro
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It'll be a combination. They'll drop some amazing powerpoints, and none of it will make launch next November. They will then assure us it's fine, because their team is expanding to 25,000 workers for the next expansion, at which point we will get expansions bi-weekly fo realsies, scout's honor.
spronk
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activision buys maker of candy crush for $5.9 billion USD
Activision Blizzard Acquires Candy Crush Maker King Digital Entertainment For $5.9 Billion | TechCrunch
Part of the announcement noted Wow was at 5.5m subs, down 100k from last quarter but bleeding has slowed down. Interesting sub graph
Activision Blizzard Acquires Candy Crush Maker King Digital Entertainment For $5.9 Billion | TechCrunch
Part of the announcement noted Wow was at 5.5m subs, down 100k from last quarter but bleeding has slowed down. Interesting sub graph
I think the WoW tokens are slowing the subscription losses, sorta like when they gave D3 and next xpac beta away if you subbed for a year.
Ukerric
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WoW tokens have an impact on EU/NA realms, where there are 1.9 million active accounts. Usual in the industry is 10 to 15% extra inactive but paying (people are lazy), so we have something like 2.2 million paying subs in EU/NA. I doubt there's even 5% of players that use the tokens as their primary sub, so that means that tokens probably add at most 100k subs to the total. And some of them would probably still sub without a token system, so that's even less of an impact.
The year sub had probably more impact than that.
(The 1.9M active accounts come from MMOchamp, who scrapes the EU/NA armories in a loop and uses the activity feed to determine which accounts are being played and which are not or unsub)
*edit* I just checked the prices, and they've been steadily climbing, which means the transactions are probably drying up.
WoW really is on it's last leg. You will probly see it spike to around 8 million for this new xpac with there use of promotional incentives.
Wouldn't be surprised if after 6 months WOW goes under 4 million.
At that point I would bet it goes free to play with micro transactions.
Just looking at the Activision numbers from yesterday. Destiny had 26 million registered users, and the rest of the Blizzard games are doing really well.
Wouldn't be surprised if after 6 months WOW goes under 4 million.
At that point I would bet it goes free to play with micro transactions.
Just looking at the Activision numbers from yesterday. Destiny had 26 million registered users, and the rest of the Blizzard games are doing really well.
Caeden
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Even at 4 FUCKING MILLION that is not a "last leg" scenario. Can we get some hyperbole in here?
No way WoW goes free to play in the next year. I could MAYBE see in 2-3 years a guild wars 2 model but they have zero of the infrastructure built and this is blizzard we're talking about.
Rest of your post sounds like a bunch of poopsockers pipe dreams. "Yesssss...the evil Casuals will have to play a hardcore game nowww!!"
Vandyn
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4 million active paying subs is only about 3 million more than anyone else. Besides, they are already on the microtransaction bandwagon. They basically print money with all the mounts and other crap they sell.
Tauro
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The problem is that the WOW-team is right now "the biggest in the history of wow". I guess they cant get any smaller if they want to have *any* chance at all to make enough content to not loose more subbers. Compare that to the Hearthstone/HotS-teams, how big are those? 10% the size of WOW-team? Well, at least we know what ActBlizz priorities are... fucking 5+ bil.$ for Candy Crush... wheeee great for gamers right?
Even Blizz could have developed >10 AAA-MMOs for that kind of money
Even Blizz could have developed >10 AAA-MMOs for that kind of money
I just wonder why content release is so slow for this game. It is still raking in money and I'm sure the team is pretty large. Yet features and content is still so slow to arrive. I wonder if the code base is just a spiderweb of code that adding features is a major and complete pain in the ass.