Thread: 18.5% drop in players in only 8 weeks

Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

The main cause of the drop was a significant reduction in returners. But a decrease is only really significant if it is maintained long-term and lower than at comparable periods in the previous expansion.

Isn't it alarming that 6.4-6.45, which is probably one of the most feature-rich patches in EW, with IS update, new Variant/Criterion, a new raid series, and BLU only sees a decline in returners? Seems like this is the start of a new trend which will continue as we get to the REAL content drought in 6.5. Pray, look forward to it.

Originally Posted by TheNight

Isn't it alarming that 6.4-6.45, which is probably one of the most feature-rich patches in EW, with IS update, new Variant/Criterion, a new raid series, and BLU only sees a decline in returners? Seems like this is the start of a new trend which will continue as we get to the REAL content drought in 6.5. Pray, look forward to it.

That's the thing, it's the last patch with interesting content.
The biggest players are done with it and since there's no Bozja, no content to farm, people just stop playing.
People don't see value in doing BLU or criterion, hopefully SQEX will figure why and fix it rather than giving up on it.

Also for instance, there's still more player in 6.41 that there was in 5.41.
So yes, the game does keep growing.