I tried going back to Warcraft for the first time in a few years Just a few weeks ago. It felt like going to a dead mall. There were like 3 people in stormwind and trade was dead.
I mean since Burning Crusade people usually aren’t in capital cities, but mostly in the new zones capital like Shatt or Dornagal for TWW. You might also have been chromie phased?
Game isn’t at 10 million anymore but it is far from dead.
I started in LK days and org/storm was always packed. it started dwindling as time went on but bigger part for me is TRADE being a ghost town too. Who am I gonna play the anal game with?!
Stormwind and Orgrimmar haven’t been main capitals since the first expansions 20 years ago lol, people usually only stayed there for the auction houses.
It’s been a moderately populated place on and off since then. But since Dragonflight there has been an auction house in the expansion zone, and now also in The War Within city. So there’s next to no reason to even stay in Stormwind/Orgrimmar anymore.
And that’s really sad. The expansions added new content and areas which was great but also made the world so big that it feels empty. I think server phasing also had something to do with that, but with the dwindling player base compared to peek times, even the major cities in the expansions feel more empty than ever.
I tried going back to Warcraft for the first time in a few years Just a few weeks ago. It felt like going to a dead mall. There were like 3 people in stormwind and trade was dead.
I mean since Burning Crusade people usually aren’t in capital cities, but mostly in the new zones capital like Shatt or Dornagal for TWW. You might also have been chromie phased?
Game isn’t at 10 million anymore but it is far from dead.
I started in LK days and org/storm was always packed. it started dwindling as time went on but bigger part for me is TRADE being a ghost town too. Who am I gonna play the anal game with?!
They actually banned people for that for a while and it died off iirc
Stormwind and Orgrimmar haven’t been main capitals since the first expansions 20 years ago lol, people usually only stayed there for the auction houses.
It’s been a moderately populated place on and off since then. But since Dragonflight there has been an auction house in the expansion zone, and now also in The War Within city. So there’s next to no reason to even stay in Stormwind/Orgrimmar anymore.
And that’s really sad. The expansions added new content and areas which was great but also made the world so big that it feels empty. I think server phasing also had something to do with that, but with the dwindling player base compared to peek times, even the major cities in the expansions feel more empty than ever.
Most people are in Dornogal, enough to drop my FPS considerably when I’m there.
Trade chat is dead tho