Game misplaced subscribers quicker at some stage in Classic/TBC/LK. Those eras simply had even greater subs coming in for a subsequent fine increase. This is this type of not unusualplace but ignorant chorus it is apparent why Blizz stopped sharing sub counts.

Which is a greater 'famous' recreation: one which has one hundred humans strive it and 10 humans preserve gambling or a recreation in which 50 strive it and forty five preserve gambling? The first state of affairs is comparable to Classic WoW technology whilst the second one is greater alongside the traces of present day layout. Player retention is up enlargement over enlargement. The solution is not clean, mainly in a subscription primarily based totally recreation.

Cataclysm clearly earned money. Blizzard's economic reviews from 2010 to 2013 verify that to buy WoW WoTLK Classic Gold.

Disliked with the aid of using the bulk of the playerbase? Which ballot  are you regarding? IGDB offers it a 77, ign/pcgamer/meta all 90+. Seems quite famous to me.

You simply proved my factor together along with your first subject matter, the sport noticed exponential increase at some stage in classic, it noticed slower paced increase in TBC, and noticed little real increase at some stage in WOTLK however it did see massive volumes of humans play the sport sufficient to update people who left, that is actual, this did not occur in any respect after that time, that means that the sport had modified for the more severe and changed into now no longer approachable to new gamers, and changed into now no longer accurate sufficient to preserve retention excessive, so it failed on each counts, and but you are seeking to posit that i am analyzing numbers wrongly?

Your 2nd remark is laughable, why?, due to the fact this is now no longer how 'popularity' works, which has been a factor of competition these days with humans searching on the big hype that surrounded new global and the 'cataclysmic' drop off of participant numbers due to how horrific the sport grew to become out to be, the identical precept exists with WoW, humans have been glad sufficient with the content material via the preliminary release till cataclysm enlargement launch, new gamers have been ample sufficient to update people who dropped the sport that means that participant turnover changed into fine, after the cataclysm enlargement length the sport constantly dropped gamers due to horrific layout choices or even greater egregious troubles as time went on, to the factor now in which the usage of excellent to be had information that exists the predicted participant matter globally is sub 1 million gamers at the modern generation of the sport, with but increasingly horrific layout choices being made and determined tries to recapture the lightning with the aid of using pandering to humans's requests months/years when they have been to start with made.

I by no means stated cataclysm did not make money, i stated it changed into a industrial failure relative to what got here earlier than, snowstorm went from making greater than $3 BILLION a 12 months at some stage in WOTLK to round 1/2 of that in the cataclysm length, while the complete factor of your enterprise is to make money, making much less of it after displaying you could make loads greater is a horrific element, now no longer positive why that is information to you.

I wasn't conscious that rag webweb sites have been taken into consideration 'majority' of the participant population, i should have overlooked that critical memo, as a person who performed the complete enlargement cycle now no longer lacking a unmarried every day quest at some stage in the complete enlargement lifestyles cycle, and who changed into very invested in preserving updated with the miniscule adjustments that took place, it changed into abundantly clean that almost all of gamers have been sad with the enlargement, specifically because of the truth that the devs modified a lot of the content material at some stage in the enlargement lifestyles cycle, WoTLK Gold reducing massive quantities of content material out as a way to paintings at the adjustments and updates had to preserve the bulk of gamers engaged and inquisitive about the sport at that time, giving an get admission to media consultant a beta key and asking them to do a evaluation of the sport primarily based totally on a tiny pattern of the complete complete does now no longer a great recreation evaluation make, however you appear to be a person who would not appearance to intensive on matters a great deal to note.