Quote Originally Posted by Striker44 View Post
When you compare it to the size of the playerbase (NA estimate is somewhere around 200-250k at the moment), that "very large number" is actually nothing. It's the proverbial grain of sand on the beach.

The only real large-scale data we have comes from Steam logins, and here's where we're at comparing DT with the past couple expansions 2 full months after release:

DT --> Around 48% retention (52% of players no longer logging in from DT start)
EW --> Around 43% retention (57% of players no longer logging in from EW start)
ShB --> Around 49% retention (51% of players no longer logging in from ShB start)

That puts DT right in the neighborhood of ShB (which is generally viewed as the "best" expansion by the most people) and quite a bit better than EW (which had a 92% metacritic rating). The reality is that DT is not experiencing anything different than the standard cycles this game has had for years.
Source? Because that retention, when we know barely antyhing about that and only SE has the data seems like wishful thinking at best. Especially when anyone can go to steamcharts and find that the average population right now is below/equal to the one we can find during EW patch lull, let alone how this is happening when we are not even one full patch into the expansion which is quite telling.

DT is suffering from the EW extended patch cycles, the stagnation of most of the content and the formula and an msq unable to carry the problems the other content of the game have.


(Steamcharts Source: https://steamcharts.com/app/39210#1y)