Quote Originally Posted by EaraGrace View Post
Subs and critical success has been on an upward trend since ARR. To claim it’s all just Shadowlands backlash is ridiculous.
I don't think it's at all unfair to say that the majority of this games growth is a result of the state of the MMO market. Growth did in fact explode around the time Shadowlands sputtered out, far beyond what had been seen previously, and was largely instigated by the migration of big name influencers like Asmongold. Growth up until that point was steady, but fairly weak.