World of Warcraft subscriptions continue a downward trend

expansions take way too long to make, even with such a big money behind, they should start making the game more interesting, instead of putting it all in their pockets, might help. if not, i see wow in 3-5 years dead.

Not entirely sure why everyone wants WoW to fail so much. I personally haven't played the game actively for a long time, but I hold no ill will towards it. WoW did a service to the MMO genre by introducing a ton of new people and producing a fun, polished game.

That and people who quit are most likely just going to go to SW:TOR. I doubt a significant portion will go to any of the other current MMOs.

"There was a discussion on the current leadership of WoW at the beggining of this thread. Do you know where that all went Massively? Or why it was removed?"
@Utakata

Interesting. I didn't participate in it but i'm really interested about why (and under which circonstances) this whole discussion has been removed.

The global economic fail will continue to produce cancelled subscriptions at a steady or fast rate. Countries are paying credit card bills with even more credit cards metaphorically speaking. When the final bill can't be paid because there's no more credit or cards left to apply for, the debt explosion of each country will be messier than the previous crisis and that's going to be reflected in the dropping rate of WoW subs. Life will imitate art and vice versa.

The game itself didn't drive me away from WoW. It was the community. Once they introduced the Cross Server Dungeon Finder I knew that my time with the game had come to an end.

Within a month of the dungeon finders release I deleted my toons, cancelled my account and removed the game from my hard drive.

I've never been happier.

If you really want to see a downward spiral in numbers just wait until TOR and GW2 release. It had its time, it was a great game but it is slowly comng to an end.

Funny thing is it took these players 3+ years to finally figure out they were playing a crappy game, ever since BC this game has gone to %$#%^. And now that community will invade another game, and whine, complain, and beg for changes that will end up utterly destroying that game as well.

It's simply that it's time is coming to a close. Let's face it when every xpack becomes a rehash of what has come before only sporting a new model murloch, a new stone air, water, and fire elemental and another 400 kill 5 and collect 10 quests it just isn't fun anymore.

For me it's the new emphasis on forcing people into groups for any real gain. You must be in a guild to advance quicker and get more xp/rep/honor/raw materials. You must be in a rated battleground group or arena to gain any decent amount of pvp gear. And if your piece of gear doesn't drop in 10 man (cause let's face it on many servers 25 mans are now extinct due to the mutual lockout change) you just have to rerun the same boring raids week after week.

I became tired of running dailies in between waiting for something. Queues for ZA/ZG are in the 30-45 minute range on my server, world pvp is dead. Only a few rated bgs and a few arenas a week do anything for you. Honor is useless after you get the pieces and mounts they reward.

How can someone like me who has played for 4 years possibly get anything out of this game anymore?

I feel that the drop in player base is not due to "too many kids" or anything like that but a chance to get content too easily. My favorite times in World of Warcraft was the original game and the Burning Crusade. But here are my reasons why I think WoW has begun its decline.

Raiding back in the original and BC are much different than WoTLK and Cata. I feel the biggest problem is that it is now too easy to get to the content. While in the first two games it was almost always constant progression. Someone who wanted to be good would have to gear up in 5 mans, then find his way into a new 20 / 10 man guild scratch his way up through that content. And then either wait around til theres enough people for a 40 / 25 man raid or jump ship to a starting 40 / 25. In this model most people were still progressing through content up until the beginning of the expansion. In my personal opinion bosses were much more complex (I personally always thought Illridari Council was incredibly hard.) While now everyone can see the content no matter if they are in a 10 or a 25 man guild and everyone knows the fight. There is no real point for someone to advance to a heroic mode of the same dungeon the just got done doing for a little better gear and an extra boss. In my personal opinion blizzard needs to go back to the model where only the best of the best see the end game content. You know blizzard has a flawed raiding program when I can go in and PUG BWD...

The inflation is out of control: I remember having 28k in BC which for that was an insane amount of money. Now I go and tell someone that I have 28k and I appear to be the average. Gone are the days when I had to scrap and scrape for money to get my epic ground mount (I remember working for months to get the 1k gold needed). Now someone can do dailys make a few hundred gold a day and get rich quick with minimal effort. If blizzard would severely decrease the amount earned from daily's, and force players to earn the bulk of their money either by playing the AH or killing bosses, It would make money a much more valuable commodity.

Those are my two biggest reasons why I no longer play WoW and am patiently waiting for SWTOR to come out. Hope this all made sense haha.

I quit because of Guild Wars 2. After seeing all of what that game has to offer, I decided to stop playing any MMO until it comes out