Twitch Streamer Explains Why WoW Is Dying Even Though The MMORPG Is Better Than Ever

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The MMORPG World of Warcraft is having an earnings crisis, says a Twitch streamer. The streamer Taliesin considers “WoW: Dragonflight” to be the best expansion of the MMORPG since Legion in 2016 or even the best WoW ever. But patch 9.1 in June 2021 was the “last nail in the coffin” for WoW. You had to wait 8 months for the patch, plus there were the scandals at Blizzard and when the patch came it was on the wrong topic entirely.

That’s what makes the criticism special: Twitch streamers complaining about the state of WoW is nothing special. Bitching is somehow part of the WoW experience. The super eyebrow Asmongold has built a career with it.

The special thing about Taliesin is that he not only likes WoW: Dragonflight, but even considers it the best expansion of WoW of all time – and yet the state of the game is difficult at the moment:

WoW is brilliant right now. Dragonflight is fantastic, just a really good expansion. In my opinion, WoW was as good as it is today – at least on par with the best versions WoW has ever had. The game is fundamentally really good today. People like the game as much as they did Legion, one of the best expansions.

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Then what’s the catch? The streamer clearly states:

WoW is dead right now – so not a corpse, but the subscriptions are in the basement, the viewership is in the basement.

And that doesn’t just apply to him, you can also look at the numbers of top people like Preach. Viewer metrics are down.

8 months of waiting for patch 9.1 drove many players away from WoW

Why is that? According to the streamer, the cause of today’s WoW crisis lies in the past, he sees the last expansion Shadowlands and especially the long wait for patch 9.1 as the biggest reasons why WoW is so low right now and only a few people are interested:

  • Shadowlands was “the last nail in the coffin” for WoW
  • If WoW survives, Patch 9.1 will go down in history as the “Patch That Almost Killed WoW”
  • When WoW dies, 9.1 will be the patch that killed WoW

    • The current problems are not because the pandemic is over, but Shadowlands has exhausted many players. 9.1 was the “Perfect Storm of Shit”:

  • It was the second disappointing expansion in a row
  • You never had to wait so long for a first patch – that was already “obscene” and “crazy”. There hasn’t been a patch for 8 months. People wouldn’t have talked about anything other than what was bugging them after such a long time
  • While the patch itself was good, it was all about the zone “The Maw” where they had spent the previous 8 months. You just got over the zone as a player

    • At the same time, Final Fantasy XIV exploded and a “terrible scandal” flew around Blizzard’s ears, which cost a lot of enthusiasm. Because WoW was in such a bad state, it was easy to make the moral decision to distance yourself from the game.

    The streamer says: Blizzard has always been a terrible company, but their games were fun, so many were able to overlook the problems. But because WoW was in such a bad state when the scandal broke, it was very easy for many to part with the MMORPG and Blizzard now.

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    Viewership down from 250,000 to 12,000

    How bad is it for him right now? The streamer analyzes that the numbers on WoW videos compared to Battle for Azeroth are only about a twelfth as large as they were back then.

    Videos often got 250,000 views during BfA – today the same videos would end up with 12,000 views.

    Only Asmongold is an exception, which still reaches 400,000 views.

    It’s “hard times,” says the streamer.

    This sobering impression of WoW also seems to concern many of you:

    Many of you have turned your back on WoW Dragonflight – these are your reasons

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