Not sure if we should shatter your innocent mind, but Goldshire on many servers pretty much became Bourbon Street of New Orleans, only seedier.Zeriu said:May i ask what was and what is scary about Goldshire?Erana said:And for roleplayers, having the game at all is half the experience.
Good GOD, they've made Goldshire even scarier.
they wont, no blizzard games are on steam, blizzard has its own online store that is worse then steam, I wouldnt be surprised if activision abandoned steam to just put games on it at some pointGeneric Gamer said:Stick this on Steam and it'll be downloading in ten minutes!
It's actually about 5.5 million China, 6.5 million US/EU split.Mister Benoit said:I doubt it'll go F2P soon, although they'd probably make more money by doing so.Ickorus said:I think WoW is going to be forced to go free soon enough, I believe one of the higher ups in Blizzard actually once said that if he market changed enough and they got good competition they would likely go free to play.
In the next couple of years the game is going to be bombarded from several different directions by new and decent looking MMOs, I actually didn't even realise how many until a few days ago.
Incoming MMOs:
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Guild Wars 2
Archeage (this one looks very interesting, still not certain about it yet but definitely something i'll be keeping an eye on)
TERA
And of course Rift is already here and doing fairly well for itself.
About 8 million of their subscribers are from China which still hasn't gotten the 3rd expansion yet.
The 3 million NA players are a chunk but certainly not the bulk. I think WoW will just slowly deteoriate then stabilize.