Blizzard: Some WoW Subs Lost to The Old Republic [Mar 20, 2012, 10:13 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
An interview on Eurogamer.net talks with World of Warcraft producer John Lagrave about the state of the game. He discusses the subscriber numbers for the MMORPG, saying that they have lost some players to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, though they think there are others hibernating until the release of the next WoW expansion:
"We certainly do look at [where WOW players go], and we have a very smart bunch of guys who do our analytics for us," said senior World of Warcraft producer John Lagrave.
"Of course people are trying Star Wars - our development team are trying Star Wars! I'm one of the few people who's still playing it actually, but yeah we've seen a dip in subs. It certainly has to at least be attributable to The Old Republic, but it's also attributable to people who want to wait and get Mists of Pandaria, so it's not surprising.
"Are they going elsewhere? Yes they are. We don't have a lock on all the best games in the world - Skyrim was an amazing game."
Wetworks wrote on Mar 20, 2012, 12:21:RailWizard wrote on Mar 20, 2012, 12:10:
.....or they are losing subs because of the fruitypants panda shit coming up. I really don't get how they go from Lichking, to Cataclysm to this romper room shit.
D3 better not suck.
They explained it, the reason was that they didn't want to have each expansion be darker than the previous. You can't have dark, dark, dark, really dark, etc... They're throwing in a lighter expansion to cleanse the pallet since the next two expansions will be very grim indeed.
This gives them a chance to introduce a new continent full of color and interesting dungeons and raids. I myself am looking forward to it, I could only stand a month of Cata before I quit. With the lessons they learned from Cata, Mists of Pandera should be a good expansion.
Eh, if I get a beta invite (didnt get one for Cata) and the early reports aren't sycophants fawning over it, I'll be optimistic then. Given Cata and what info they've released on MOP, I'm not optimistic.
Cata wasn't that dark (most don't pay that much attention to lore), it was just painfully hard or just frustratingly difficult when you realized you had to bang your head against a wall just to gear up for raids. Those first 2 months killed a lot of casual players. My guild has never really recovered to be stable for even 10man runs. People just floated in and out. Most of those who floated out, I've only seen again in SWTOR (and that one is failing badly, I don't even have a lvl 50).
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