World of Warcraft died because the developers only catered to casuals and world prog

[Kolsykol]

Shadowlands was the fastest selling PC game of all time.

It's worth noting that people are sheep and very easily swooned by marketing.
People see a CG trailer with action and they're instantly sold it's honestly a bit embarrassing how easily people buy into things even after having been screwed over multiple times and probably on some level knowing it's going to be bad.
I mean so many of the big AAA publishers entire existence is like that it doesn't matter how bad a game is and who it's from if there's a lot of money behind the marketing then it doesn't matter.

It's like that CoD meme where people ranted about all the bad changes and how horrible it was and how they're never buying another CoD game again, then at launch they were all playing it on Steam.
I don't really have this problem if anything it's very easy to lose me as a customer it doesn't actually take much I have pretty high standards for which studios I support which is why I don't rly support a lot of them and have basically written off AAA games almost altogether.
Sure the Diablo 4 trailer was cool to look at and I grew up playing Diablo 1 and 2 and actually rly loved Diablo 3, but I am not excited at all for it because it's not just about the game and watching a fancy CG trailer ≠ playing the game.
I've just written Blizz off entirely regardless of how much I love their franchises and it's not going to change without some pretty enormous changes that just aren't going to happen realistically.

Not to toot my own horn here but if people had the self-control I have with this and weren't so ultra consoom maybe changes would actually happen but they're not and companies know this.
The narrative around WoW is going to do a complete 180 when the next CG trailer drops for the next expansion.