That Which He Does Not Play

[kaynide]

Yea what does it say?

The sad thing is people not willing to do due diligence on what those numbers mean and just yell doom and gloom.

If they checked, they’d see years when an expac is new, numbers swell. The lull years, decrease.

People keep trying to compare 2022 to 2021 without understanding this..making such comparisons useless. A more apt comparison would be 2020 to 2022.

No hate meant to anyone, but people gotta do that due diligence.

[LianaThorne]

The sad thing is people not willing to do due diligence on what those numbers mean and just yell doom and gloom.

If they checked, they’d see years when an expac is new, numbers swell. The lull years, decrease.

People keep trying to compare 2022 to 2021 without understanding this..making such comparisons useless. A more apt comparison would be 2020 to 2022.

No hate meant to anyone, but people gotta do that due diligence.

I actually realized that so chose to look at 2019 just now. Before the pandemic was even a thing period.
Same case applies with more months in the green than red.

The same also applies for 2020. 2022 has the lowest green (positive) months in several years so far, excluding the burst of activity when Endwalker launched which I will say was pretty intense.

Also you're more than welcome to quote me and direct your viewpoint at me. C:

[kaynide]

I actually realized that so chose to look at 2019 just now. Before the pandemic was even a thing period.
Same case applies with more months in the green than red.

The same also applies for 2020. 2022 has the lowest green (positive) months in several years so far, excluding the burst of activity when Endwalker launched which I will say was pretty intense.

Also you're more than welcome to quote me and direct your viewpoint at me. C:

It's usually the more rude peeps that are doing the more..vocal complaining-

In the case of Endwalker speciifcally though, I think it's unfair to just count the numbers, as Shadowbringers was a fairly uneventful expansion outside of the game.

Endwalker had the usual new-expansion hype, but the launch was pretty near to the WoW harassment nonsense that caused a wave of players (and youtubers) to flood the game. We obviously also have the Corona Virus which has more people stuck at home looking for something to do. It's hardly surprising the tsunami of people declined as fast as it increased, so a better figure would have been retention percentages or yearly averages.

Unfortunately, while we don't have a lot to work with, we can see the grand total up or down between expansions is pretty good. If this is truly a downturn, we'll be able to better see that once we get numbers for the 7.0 lull.