Discussion: Subscriber Loss

Hey wow_ladies!I don't know if this has been posted recently or not. I don't have the numbers, but I did hear that MMO Champion had an extremely long post about subscriber loss and why people think WoW is losing so many players.Now, I don't mean the gold-farmer-level-1s, but I personally want to know what it is about WoW that has lost so many level-capped players, and/or people over level 30.Someone over at dear_gnome put it really well when they talked about the Harrison Jones questline ...

Articles tagged with: Raiding, Mining, Cataclysm

Is height a requirement for a serious character?


I'm 5 feet 3 inches tall. When I wear heels, I call them my tall shoes because they make me tall. Not taller, because that would indicate that there were some degree of tallness to begin with. Trying on platform shoes is an exercise ...

What signals the end of an expansion?


Wrath of the Lich King ended on kind of a sour note for me, largely because I didn't get to participate in my guild's one and only 25-man heroic Lich King kill before Cataclysm launched. Part of the rankle was ...

Officers' Quarters: Dropping the drama totem


Every Monday, Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. He is the author of The Guild Leader's Handbook, available from No Starch Press.
Selecting players ...

Identify the Fail


In which I realize that WoW raiding and software development have a common element.
How does this relate to raiding? Well, it has to do with learning from one’s mistakes.
In the software development world, we have ...