Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
I'm mostly just curious to see if the target demographic for the game shifts again. Especially when accounting for societal shifts and trends. Some more healthy competition where MMO's are concerned certainly wouldn't hurt, either.
There really isn’t much competition in the space at the moment for better or worse. WoW has proven it can implode at will and while they’ve had a decent expansion will that trend continue or will it plummet again. ESO content isn’t anywhere close to the bigger mmos and we talk about our devs not listening they have it worse. Upcoming mmos blue protocol and throne of liberty won’t do much in the long haul, might get a lost ark situation once more (I want BP to do well as it has an interesting foundation)

GW2 and any others I missed just don’t hit the same retention as WoW and 14 does… so yeah the MMO space is a bit weird at the moment. But I do agree that I honestly will see a demographic shift in 7.0. A lot of the foundational work and QoL leads me to believe they’re going to be changing something long term… guess we will see in some capacity in 5 days.