Posted May 23, 2019 53 minutes ago, Challenge said: A bunch of people who abandoned the server should not be taken seriously compared to the players who have continued to contribute to the game by actually playing and paying for it. Imagine trying to grow a business or game with this mentality. Yikes. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted May 23, 2019 (edited) 20 hours ago, Ekcin said: It seems you have not much of a clue even here. There was a reason why Blizzard stubbornly refused to go that way for quite a time, and WoW Classic having been under development since at least 2017 (prolly earlier), and that taking in account the deep pockets and staff numbers of Blizzard. It is pathetic even to try to compare that to Wurm. When citing the tragic decline of Wurm Online from 6,300 at peak to 2,200 now, WoW with 12M at peak in 2010 and last published 5.5M in 2015 (when Blizzard stopped publishing) is hardly in better shape (estimates say 3 to 4M recently), only that the figures are orders of magnitude higher. Maturing games lose participants. Yet with appropriate advertising Wurm has better chances to turn or at least stem that tide. You literally "owned" yourself. You admit that subscribers have dropped from WoW, from 12M to 5.5M and the response of players was that they wanted a Classic Version of WoW which is why they were leaving (huh I wonder if Wurm compares in anyway?). So the developers are making a classic version of WoW much to the delight of a huge amount of the player base that has dropped its subscription. We don't know how many people will actually go play WoW classic, but if prior numbers of illegal private servers say anything, it should be substantial with the actual live retail game. You also failed to bring up anything on my other example Old School Runescape which was revitalized by the addition of a time capsuled 2007 version of Runescape which to this day is the backbone of the game and continues to grow in popularity. Game decisions are voted on by the players, with a goal of keeping the game in its original style. Instead of making mistakes of the past that led to the decline of Runescape (Runescape 3) they had the opportunity to make changes players agreed with. Edited May 23, 2019 by FranktheTank 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted May 24, 2019 Mclovin's suggestion is better. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
