Emotes in the cash shop..

[Teryaani]

The loss of subs had everything to do with the expansion being crap. Pure and simple. And it was specifically designed to be crap. Cut content, cut development, cut features, bare bones expansion is exactly what WoD is. They also offer unique mounts in the cash shop, not in game. Why put something cool in the game when you can charge extra for it? Blizzard developers have pretty much said they expected subs to drop, and they don't care. They don't care because they can develop their game on the cheap, hype the next xpac, and make their profits by adding more "premium services." Their own words.

They don't care because they know the game is 10 years old and has had it's run. To be honest, the legion expansion announcement surprised me. That may mean that Blizzard doesn't have another title close enough to keep fans happy. Certainly they lost "Titan" to Bungie and it sounded like they were banking on that.

Square isn't doing what blizzard does with their cash shop and the game is a new title, not one on the way out. .

[Bodicca]

They don't care because they know the game is 10 years old and has had it's run. To be honest, the legion expansion announcement surprised me. That may mean that Blizzard doesn't have another title close enough to keep fans happy. Certainly they lost "Titan" to Bungie and it sounded like they were banking on that.

Square isn't doing what blizzard does with their cash shop and the game is a new title, not one on the way out. .

The title being "ten years old" means nothing. If WoW was still set in vanilla, then the game would be ten years old.

Eight months ago over 10 million players were subbed to WoW and I'm pretty sure most new titles would love to have those numbers. Millions of people wanted to play an MMO that was hyped to be created with all the passion and innovation that Blizzard was known for pre-Cata. Unfortunately, this was not the case. At all. Half the player base didn't leave because the franchise is ten years old. They left because the expansion is shallow and cheap.

Being an old title means nothing to how well a game is developed. And new titles fail all the time.

The announcement of Legion wasn't a huge surprise to me since Blizzard has been talking yearly expansions for some time now. I expect it to be nothing more than a WoD II.

As far as SE not doing what Blizzard is doing with their cash shop, I'm not so sure what selling an event reward without having the event in game is. It doesn't sit well with me at all.

[Teryaani]

The title being "ten years old" means nothing. If WoW was still set in vanilla, then the game would be ten years old.

Except it does mean something when your company does nothing to keep pace with newer hardware. The game feels and looks old.

Eight months ago over 10 million players were subbed to WoW and I'm pretty sure most new titles would love to have those numbers. Millions of people wanted to play an MMO that was hyped to be created with all the passion and innovation that Blizzard was known for pre-Cata. Unfortunately, this was not the case. At all. Half the player base didn't leave because the franchise is ten years old. They left because the expansion is shallow and cheap.

They left because it had the same problems they had seen before the last time they unsubbed and yes, it was crap. You seem to want to ignore the fact that I agree with you and have said so that the expac was crap.

Being an old title means nothing to how well a game is developed. And new titles fail all the time.

Which is nothing like what I said. The title is showing it's age. Do you disagree with that?

The announcement of Legion wasn't a huge surprise to me since Blizzard has been talking yearly expansions for some time now. I expect it to be nothing more than a WoD II.

It surprised me as they should be putting their efforts at their next generation offering. Of course, all legion is likely to be is the bits that should have been in WoD at launch.

As far as SE not doing what Blizzard is doing with their cash shop, I'm not so sure what selling an event reward without having the event in game is. It doesn't sit well with me at all.

They've been putting previous holiday items in now for a while. How is this any different than the past events? Would you prefer them just remain one-time items that nobody has access to?