Blizzard says more people played WoW Forever at the same time on launch than at any other launch in Warcraft history. Even Wrath. They haven’t given us a player count, so how much can we check? China’s servers and Raider.IO tell us part of the story. But WoW set another record that tells us who turned up: more returning players than ever before.
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00:00 Bigger than Wrath?
01:44 What Blizzard actually counted
02:36 A million players in China alone
08:53 Where were the launch queues?
10:36 What Forever means for retail WoW
12:44 When Blizzard bet on Titan
15:09 Who came back to Azeroth?
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Wow forever is ….. kinda dog shit to be honest … even with all the new buffs dungeons and gear …. the layering is a non starter … what a pain in the ass …. lvling in classic is waaaaay faster … like omg I can complete a quest in 5 min wooot … in forever 2hrs …. same quest . Its so stupid !!!! Until it is fixed I will not play and can not recommend the game !!! I spent more time doing NOTHING than classic !!! Blizzard should feel embarrassed as much as im frustrated !!! Wake up Blizzard !!!
Forever is the best game they ever released!
Imagine if they play their cards right with Arthas.I think it will reach it's peak once again.
i didn't even know you had a wow specific content channel
You were only my gaming news guy
i regularly need 45min for collection quests, because they are spawncamped… stop calling the layering too aggresive and empty… i'm writing this while sitting on a Gaea Seed respawn waiting… just like 15 other players here
Returning WoW player, last played in 2013. WoW Forever is amazing, it's nostalgic, it's bringing back so many great memories. I pray that Blizzard stays the course with Forever, doesn't cave to pressure to turn it into retail..
Don't worry retailees are already whining to ruin forever
The game is packed of people like I don t remember seeing for a very long time
Let's see how long is going to take them to screw it big time again. Hope it is not to soon.
I will go back to retail when season 3 starts, and once all thats done back to forever. i will not abandon a 20 year old charactor/account.
im a bit lost if the highest player base we had was 12 million and the count is now so low they havent shown numbers in a long time, with wow forever still only having little under 3 million charecters over level 10 that could include people having more then one charecter, so probley around 2.4million players at max, that is very far away from 12 million and i highly doubt that retail have much more then 5-6 million players. so how do we hit the 12 million+? i get most new players or most returning, but the most ever genreally claim seems like a fat lie
I'm one of the returning players from when I stopped at WotLK (chasing the ever moving top tier bar was not appealing). I tried Classic a few years ago, but it missed too much of the QoL things that really did need to be in there, like Dungeon Finder.
Forever brought many of the QoL items from decades of experience while retaining the nostalgia I was chasing in what has so far been a beautiful blend. However, I don't know that I see myself sticking around more than a year. I don't have time for hours long raids. Leveling a handful of alts I imagine will eventually get boring and I don't know what could keep me long term.
So, while blizzard has done a great job marketing and building out WoW forever, I have to wonder how much of this new player base it will keep. Are the nostalgia chasers like me just temporary blips? Are we a majority or minority?
I'm back because the promise is that I can play casually and my progress won't be made obsolete after 1 expansion
Never played classic. Didn’t start til wotlk. Been playing retail since. It’s quite the juxtaposition to go from your nearly immortal lvl 90 prot warrior pulling the entire room to a lvl 9 that dies when it gets too close to that other kobold. I find the pacing a bit slow but I’m enjoying it between midnight weekly resets, I think itll speed up as I level.
I tried Classic MoP with some friends. Tried retail when Midnight released. They were fun but nothing compared to my experience with Forever. I've never partied up with randoms to complete quests so many times. Never found an active and excited guild. Never seen so many people willing to help new players like myself who don't know what they're doing without judgement. I think I finally understand why there was so much nostalgia for the early days of WoW, and I'm so happy I get to experience this for myself.
Unless the idiots at blizzard make classic+ with retail qql they wont get a new good game and just do the whole damn game up to retail but keep it classic all the damn way
Blizzard needs to give asmongold a cut. I FOMO’d in watching how much fun he was having
Swamped with work so I am one of people who are yet to hop on. I aint played wow in like 3 years but this got me interested
It will be short lived.. GTA 6 will smoke this game. Was a wow fan just burned out and I don’t think I’m the only one.
I hope the "you think you do, but you don't" guy is getting roasted.
I was technically one of those new players for Cataclysm, but I wasn't actually new because I had been playing a character on my Dad's account on Wrath for a while. So I wasn't actually new, it was just that my account was.
ever since classic vanilla im incapable of enjoying retail.
I miss the empty layers, to many people
I miss wotlk the most. I played from burning crusade thru MOP and then I think the one after that was draenor which is the one I stopped playing on. Nothing was the same after cata. Yes cata was cool and I did enjoy it, but wotlk was peak and they changed it so much with cata and could never recover.
This is one of your best videos. Top class.
Man. RIP total biscuit. I wish he could see this
Heck ya!! I just got to level 10 on my Druid last night I can’t wait to do the bear quest after work!!!
I'm just enjoying being able to immerse into the world. I have my cast of toons that I'm casually leveling. The interplay of professions and crafting is rewarding. The class updates feel appropriate for modern experience and honoring the original feel. I'll even admit being strapped for cash is a bit of a rush. Everything I gain in Forever feels earned, nothing is just handed to you.
Great job Bliz. I don't get to say that much!
Everything is good, but don't forget that YouTube changed how it counts views. Just watching a second counts as a view now.
I been having fun again, it’s nice to just take it easy. Forgot how much I had to run in the world lol (skipped classic) but yeah everyone is on and running around in forever it’s great.
I'm confused. If wotlk/cata era was like 12mill subs, then how can this be the biggest ever with approximately 2-3mill?
Oh, it's copium. They can cherry pick data points to hype up how great it is, but the numbers down the road will tell the truth.