Strike while the iron is hot Square!

Watch them do it by delaying 2.4 until November 13th.

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Originally Posted by Moheeheeko

With the announcement of the new WoW expansion release date, many players are unsubscribing, mostly because it has been over a year since the last content update and they now have to wait ANOTHER 3 months.

Now would be a good time to advertise just how often content is added here, just saying.

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I heard different.

http://www.pcgamesn.com/wow/why-worl...lizzard-fix-it

Even with the expansion they aren't gonna win anyone, the fact is they give people levels on jobs when you buy the game, there is no more trying to level its handed to you.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...7-million.aspx

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/...on-Subscribers

also blizzard isn't worried about WoW anymore, they care about the new MMO they are trying to make.

Yes, Blizzard will continue to lose subs. No, they will not ever get a net gain of subs ever again (my personal opinion is that it wil plateau at roughly 4 million, still ahead of the competition). For the same reason, there will not be a MMO that will peak at WoW highest level of subs for the foreseeable future. The days of a single mega-MMO are done, and there was only ever a single MMO to wear that crown. Too much competition, and a jaded existing worldwide playerbase means that any MMO that gets WoW players is simply going to inherit a transient population that is never happy about anything and will always move onto "the next big thing" the second they get bored. Welcome to the world of Mature MMOs, boys and girls. The glory days are gone. They're not coming back.

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Originally Posted by Mjytresz

Remember when WoW was good? So do I.
RIP BC.

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^ Fixed it for you.

I personally think Square shouldn't look at what other MMOs are doing, much less WoW. This is how alot of MMOs fail, they KEEP looking at what other MMOs are doing and try to do something better instead of just doing something different or keeping up what they were doing in the first place. Square is known for it's stories, even the current event has a story if you bother to read the text (and wow is it a story). Sure, they've taken a few mechanics from other games but not to the same degree as other, now extinct, MMOs. Square just needs to keep doing what it's doing, not 'chase the rabbit' like the originator seems to think is necessary.

But I gave up my WoW addiction a year ago! My FFXIV rehab saw to that. D:

XIV Ex-Pack should be out next year I guess and we have plenty of patch expansions due in the meantime.
I'd rather have quality content rather then a rushed panic update because WoW is finally releasing a new expansion.
Square should just keep doing what they've done so far as its worked pretty well and bucked the trend for MMOs to fee-to-play.

429 days between Siege of Ogrimar launching and the next expansion.

Yoshi-P has said on many occasions that the frequency of content updates will be one of the key points of differentiation for FFXIV and I think they've done an outstanding job in this regard. The point updates have been meaty, the minor updates have brought new features and QoL stuff and the expansion promises as much content as 2.0. SE doesn't need to make any knee jerk reactions, just keep doing what they're doing.