Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

[gti443]

There's also a reason why Blizzard's World of Wacraft went from such a big success that ended up losing nearly 5m subscribers, despite trying to make it up by easing content through LFR.

I can't really comment on LoL, but I am intrigued to hear your analysis on why WoW actually lost subscribers in the process of catering to a strictly casual demographic rather than gaining.

[Gormogon]

I can't really comment on LoL, but I am intrigued to hear your analysis on why WoW actually lost subscribers in the process of catering to a strictly casual demographic rather than gaining.

Because they did it an expansion to late as an apology. They ignored their playerbase for nearly two years. Then as people were starting to unsubscribe they tried to remedy it by introducing LFR. Then finally got around to firing the person responsible, Ghostcrawler, who is currently damaging Riot's LoL.

[Kerberon]

Because they did it an expansion to late as an apology. They ignored their playerbase for nearly two years. Then as people were starting to unsubscribe they tried to remedy it by introducing LFR. Then finally got around to firing the person responsible, Ghostcrawler, who is currently damaging Riot's LoL.

Ghostcrawler is finally gone? If I ever get bored here it might actually be worth going back.

[Gormogon]

Ghostcrawler is finally gone? If I ever get bored here it might actually be worth going back.

Yup he's finally gone.

Sadly the damage to everything I enjoyed, class wise is pretty much irreplaceable.

Warriors Arms spec change in BC
Death Knights Unholy spec change to corpse explosion and unholy blight in WotLK.