Players continue paying a monthly fee to access the game in part because they believe there will be a continued stream of fresh content for them to check out, aspire to conquer and be challenged by.Įvery World of Warcraft expansion prior to Warlords of Draenor boasted either three or four content patches. Warlords of Draenor's two content patches were some of the most anemic and disappointing in the game’s historyĬontent patches are a key part of the World of Warcraft ecosystem - and, indeed, the ecosystem of any subscription-based massively multiplayer game.
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A content patch could contain anything from a new dungeon to a new 25-person raid to a new zone - or often some combination of all of these. Since it usually takes around two years between each World of Warcraft expansion (give or take a few months), Blizzard keeps players entertained by what it calls "content patches." These bigger patches add exciting new things to do rather than just balance tweaks. There isn’t just a vague feeling that the game is worse now than it used to be there is objective evidence that this is the expansion with the least amount of additional content Blizzard has ever provided. It's important to look at the data to understand just how disastrous Warlords of Draenor has been. I’ve returned to World of Warcraft in recent weeks in preparation for the upcoming sixth expansion, Legion, which means I’ve been looking back at how bad Blizzard screwed things up. But following release, Blizzard dropped the ball in a way so spectacular that it’s still hard to believe. At launch, this expansion was a brilliant addition to an already massive game, brimming with new ideas and dozens of potential directions to take things in the future. I’m not here to apologize for my Warlords of Draenor review, because I don’t think it was wrong. In the summer of 2015, World of Warcraft’s subscriber numbers hit a nine-year low, dropping from over 10 million at Warlords of Draenor’s launch to under 6 million in a mere nine months.
I stopped playing three or four months after Warlords of Draenor released. That love for the expansion showed in subscriber numbers, which crested over 10 million once more for the first time in years.īut then something happened.
It wasn’t just player and critical feedback, either. I was one of those critics, laying effusive praise (and an extremely high score to match) at the expansion’s feet in my review. Warlords of Draenor, World of Warcraft’s fifth expansion pack, was met with buzz and approval of fans and critics alike when it released in November 2014.
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