jeze64World of Warcraft Subscription Numbers Are Higher Now Than at Expansion Launch in a Franchise First
SomeGuy69Because the MMORPG market is mostly dead with rare exceptions and the rest is free2play pay2win gatcha skin fest fomo garbage.
I’m not surprised at all.
AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetI thought Black Desert and GW2 were doing okay. I know two people who play one of each respectively.
As someone who’s played a lot of GW2 over the past couple of years, I can confirm that it’s still fantastic. It doesn’t get anywhere near the amount of content that WoW gets, but it’s on a good cadance these days and outside of buying expansions, is absolutely playable without spending a penny.
FF14 has another expac coming out soon, so that’s gonna blow up. ESO was doing pretty well last I checked, too.
ESO Financials were part of the Microsoft leak. They do pretty dang well. Downward trend but what ten year old game constantly only sees number go up.
Oldschool Runescape is alive and kicking as well.
I mean even in the past when WoW didn’t have much competition this never really happened before. It would always go down over the expansion then spike up again with a new expansion. While this is definitely in part due to the fact that WoW has multiple versions now and new ones of those have been coming out helping this is definitely still a good sign that what they’ve been doing recently has been working to keep players around.