WoW Subscriptions down another 300k in Q2Follow

I'm not even about to look through that entire site for the alleged news. Provide a direct link to the article otherwise its practically spam for the website.

^ This. It is just more of the same. There are a few gems scattered here and there, but none of the new zones jumped out at me as "innovative". Vashjr could have been spectacular, but in the end was boring after the novelty of riding a seahorse wore off. I expected a lushes, massive, multifaceted forest in Hyjal (where did the Timbermaw go???), but instead had a hilly road full of barren grass with a few trees scattered here and there.

Uldum was interesting at first, but the cut scenes were TERRIBLE (Guild Wars was doing far better cut scenes 5 years ago). Blizzard put together some cheap animations with subtitles and sold them as "innovative", "breaking edge", and "new". We all know from our experiences the cut scenes were downright garbage, not to mention obnoxious. I personally expect better out of the world's largest most popular MMO.

Twilight Highlands was a little better than others, but again suffered the problem of being very bland. I remember in Lich King as I entered new zones my guildies and I were blown away by the various styles and designs. The music. The lighting. Even the new looking creatures. I can't recall one moment in Cataclysm that came close to the amazing moments that were the first few months of Lich King. Anyone else remember how intimidating Icecrown was the first few times you entered the zone?

Deepholme was just a big stone box.

There's been a jump in player activity recently. Whether due to free accounts, summer boredom, or a new patch who knows. Alliance numbers are actually up from this time last year. What's up Hordies, we're taking over.



Like others have said; the expansion really hasn't done anything to increase the number of people playing long term. After a jump in players at Cata's launch, things pretty much sunk back down where they were.

Edited, Aug 5th 2011 9:26am by someproteinguy

They have also launched a free 7 day "return to wow" promotion for existing customers.

I am afraid that you missed the point I had in mind. Its my contention that this X-Pac has been really bad, not that the game is bad. Look 8 of my friends played thru LK and bought Cata, 5 of them quit by the end of January and another several months later. I asked them why they quit and most said they disliked how Cata had affected their play.

So I have been wondering for several months what the powers were going to do to try to fix things. They started making band-aid changes around April and are continuing new ones. But what they are not doing is rolling back any of the major changes that they see as working as intended. And its a lot of those that are the problem ime. YMMV.

FL heroic is fun. FL normal has its moments, but its not really something. Rag normal has its merits, its an interesting fight with interesting twists. Cant talk about it in Heroic since I havent tried it.
Shannox Heroic is a loot *****, Rhyolith Heroic is quite interesting in a dps coordination view, but I suppose its boring as hell for tanks and interesting for healers.
We are giving some tries on Alysrazor Heroic. IMO its not really difficult and its a stupid fight, saved for people in the air. But its, also, completely unforgivable. One mistake by anyone and 10 minutes in the fight is throw away.
Cant talk about the other heroics, saved for Staghelm wich was completely bugged to the point that people was killing it avoiding every mechanic just letting a Hunter pet tank it. Lulz.

If you like quests, the new dailies are....interesting if you play in a PvP server.

Edited, Aug 8th 2011 11:51am by Brisin