Only 30 Percent of WoW Players Get Past Level 10
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I quit shortly after getting to 80 due to most of my friends no longer playing ... but when cataclysm comes out im gonna have another shot at it.
Personally I don't think 30% is that bad, since they are only trials and because the main body of the user base is still substantial. Due to this I still don't think WoW is going to collapse any time soon.
Personally I don't think 30% is that bad, since they are only trials and because the main body of the user base is still substantial. Due to this I still don't think WoW is going to collapse any time soon.
The first 10 levels suck, they've always sucked. You don't have talent points, you can't do battlegrounds, and I think even now you can't get into any dungeons. However, they've at least recognized this problem and are working to fix it with the release of Cataclysm and have been making smaller improvements over the course of the game.Sev said:
The biggest factor with this is the lack of players who are running around starting areas. After 5 years if you ever take a step into any starting area you'd be lucky to run across maybe 10 players below level 10. The thing that keeps starting areas appealing is a steady stream of people to populate them. The introduction of Death Knights did nothing to help this situation, but an attempt to rectify this was the introduction of Bind on Account gear that scaled according to the level of the character it was on. Naturally the appeal of leveling classes you'd never played before became quite exciting since most BoA items give you some kind of experience bonus. For the more...err enthusiastic players of alt characters there's the recruit a friend program which can help get your friends into the game or you can dual box multiple characters, coupled with BoA gear and gain experience like crazy.
It comes as no shock that the active account numbers for WoW are beginning to level off, by simple logical reasoning it had to happen at some point. Simply put WoW is finally starting to show its age, and much like Joan Rivers, Blizzard is trying to fend off that aging by giving the old world content of WoW a face lift. Considering though that Wrath of the Lich King hasn't been released yet in China I think once the red tape is cleared away we will see another spike in players. I mean its understandable that after 3 years of grinding on Burning Crusade content (and the various law suits China keeps throwing at Blizzard), that players would begin to drift away from the game for greener pastures. Which ultimately might be what China is trying to do to the game over there in favor of their domestic game industry (and to satisfy their psychotic xenophobia)
Exactly. I think it's reached a stage where a lot of servers have very well established guilds that are hardcore or PuG groups that somehow find trivial things hard.GeekFury said:
I think the achievement system may have stemmed a lot of newcomers as well since the majority of groups require you to have an achievment for content.
Back when I played it all I did was make new characters, I think I got two or three above level ten...
This entire post didn't mean squat to me, sorry. As the first ten levels actually don't suck ... At all, really. Cool intro movie, adequate introduction in to the world, easy to get through without feeling like a drag. The only thing that could cost WoW players is the giant cliff down to boredom lane after you cap.KeyMaster45 said:
meh, I can just use what would've been subscription money, buy a top-of-the-line PC and get Starcraft II. This POS laptop can't even run Red Alert 3 on medium
Considering it's a MMO, this should come as no surprise. Getting that many people to even give the game a shot is pretty amazing.CJ1145 said:
I played before any expansion and I hear early levelling is much faster now. Anyways, I got to level 16 before getting bored out of my skull. Never looked back. I'm kind of disappointed by the experience, because the idea of MMOs are appealing to me. Just none of the admittedly few such games that I've tried.