Category: Game News

The Elders guild here at JOB have experienced themselves some of the decline of WoW and several have quit playing due to the repetitiveness, lack of challenge, boring grind, and any other excuse we can come up with including myself. I’ve started playing again but am doing it at my pace and doing only what I feel like doing and not what I’m obligated to do for the sake of my guildmates, in-game friends, etc. Selfish? Maybe, but I’ve enjoyed the game for years and am looking for some kind of reason to stay around.

I found an article today at Gamasutra that outlines a lot of the decline that WoW has faced in the recent year or two and especially post-Cataclysm expansion. I found the article through a link in another article on WoWhead where the lead game designer Tom Chilton said “If you look at, if you look at the way the population breaks down, we’re at a point in our history where there are more people that played World of Warcraft but no longer play World of Warcraft than currently play World of Warcraft”. That’s a pretty loud statement and was somewhat tucked away in the interview between upcoming 4.3 content and the future of WoW.

The Gamasutra article states that in the months immediately following the last expansion that the game has lost almost 1 million players, dropping to 11.1 million subscribers from a peak of 12 million in 2010. Greg Street, lead systems designer at Blizzard, states in the interview that “The quests flow better, there’s not so much traveling all the way across the world, the rewards are just a little better.” While we agree with his statement, what’s causing this decline?

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Patch 4.3 will be bringing a plethora of new things to WoW and included among those will be another set of mounts for Alliance players to get their hands on. The “Get X Mounts” achievements have been easier for Horde players for a while now thanks to the new Goblin-Cycles and should now be equally easy for the Alliance players.

Alliance characters with exalted Gilneas reputation will now be able to purchase horses to putt around on… kind of lame if you ask me considering that the Human race already has horses.

The Mobile Armory is also getting a host of new updates including:

WoWhead has put together a cool list of items that look like other items but don’t have any class restrictions on them. Say you’re a rogue but want to look like you’re in Druid Tier 6?? No problem! Pick up this set of gear and mog your new gear to look like you’re in the Thunderheart Regalia!

Thanks to Blizzard’s habit of recycling models and textures among their items, you can virtually look like any of dozens of other-class gears. The cloth-cloth, leather-leather, mail-mail, plate-plate restrictions still apply to these items but you can certainly look like a Priest even though you’re a Warlock and look like a Paladin even though you’re a DK.

Feel free to pretend you’re in Destroyer Armor, Riftstalker,  Magister’s Regalia, Vestments of the Devout, and more! Check out the whole list here.