KingCanadaLIVE: I started playing WoW at the end of TBC. By the launch of WotLK, I had basically made the game a full time job. i stopped playing shortly after Cata released. Next year I'll be 40 years old. Having tried jumping back into the game multiple times over the years, it never lasted more than a week. You quickly realize that what you miss are the friends you made, the sense of exploration and frankly, your youth. I have news for anyone reading this: It ain't coming back. Hang onto the good memories and be glad to you got to participate at the height of the game.

Fusion02021: Wow is still fun to me, i play casually and its just fun to sit back relax and explore

LibertyDino: Behavioural psychologists advising companies is what lead to this.

They think the only thing we need to enjoy the game is dopamine and they are so wrong about it.

Behaviourism ruins everything.

raccooneyes2099: i hope WoW never ends. I'm a solo player and sometimes I just want to relax, collecting mounts and chasing titles. I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't play.

ofirsh69420: Just like Odin said in Thor Ragnarök "Its not a place. its the people"

Pavewy: Be careful with chasing nostalgia. I too have many great memories from Azeroth, especially around WotLK, but I have to realize that as much as I want those times again, they're gone. I take solace in the fact that I even experienced them, and then I move on to make new memories, with new people and new places in my life.

Chasing the idea that is nostalgia is dangerous, it removes you from reality and places you into a place that doesn't exist anymore. For some people, this can easily cause depression, which has real impacts.

Keep the fond memories alive with a spark, but ultimately move on and forge new ones. That's healthy.

comatose3788: The problem is .. there is no problem. Newer players are still having a good time. People keep showing the same people’s opinions. Those people are getting older, and what they like changes. Take Asmongold for example. His claim to fame was a speed run, one I’m sure he could not do again at this point.

igorlisovskiy7870: the worst thing about Mists of Pandaria is 1 talent point every 15 lvls...

gnosticmonk2019: Azeroth is a digital public square where 2 generations of gamers grew up together.

It is irreplaceable. Private servers like Turtle and Ascension will continue to operate for a long time even after Blizz turns off the lights.

Zug zug.

BalasielVOD: Playing wow daily with my friends back from classic through lich king are among my fondest gaming memories. Haven't touched wow since then

mitrooper: It's on life support.

The real Blizzard team that made WoW left years and years ago.

jakoby256: strange how you skipped talking about Legion, which was arguably the best ( or at least 2nd best ) expansion they ever created. I wonder if you didn't talk about it because it doesn't fit your narrative regarding why modern WoW sucks.

PraiseTheBoi: "it should be dead because i don't like it" ok bro lmao

Darkkfated: The Sunk Cost Fallacy is a helluva drug.

StuffingSkulltag: I played cataclysm a bit in a private server, it was fine but, I’m not really sure how people get so into it, especially as it’s normally a paid thing monthly, I mean your paying to grind things, not amazing for that fact

yurimatheus9706: i honestly have a temendrous boredon every time i go to a wow video and the creator starts romanticize the nostalgia himself have.

No, wow is not alive becouse of the community, the community is there becouse the game is well. You just need to look to shadowlands to see that no one played that thing, there was no community there, becouse the game was trash as fuck. IN GENERAL, people don't stay in a game becouse their friends are playing, they stay in a game becouse they enjoy it, the community is a consequence of a good game, not the couse of it.

the last time blizzard gave us any official numbers on the players, that was 9 million (not counting china), probably the game is bigger now than it was before, but don't have the same cultural impact becouse the gaming culture is colossaly larger than it was in the mid 2000.

l3x1337-y: WoW is just that one addiction.

You get clean, you quit, but at some point you end up coming back.

And there’s really no in-between.

I don’t know, it got me back in 2007 when I was 15. You stay away for a few months or even years, but it always pulls you back in

sneakypika375: Bro stop riding nostalgia classic wave, there are still friendships and communities, its just evolved and thats the true story of why its the most beloved game, if it would have stayed classic it would be dead

zuephillips3450: why does it bother me so much how he described the Leroy Jenkin video? it was a scripted skit, they were making fun of raiders. that was not a real raid

technicolorsoultheory3924: There was a huge shift in Warlords with the player bases age. If you were in college for vanilla tbc or wrath by warlords you had a family, kids and busy job. Out of my original large guild half of them just stopped because life not even dislike of the game.

Mandolindo: It all started with the Dungeon/Raid finder, the community felt dead after that.

ShawnMiller1970: every mmo dies trying to be the wow killer.

vaylox09: Ppl still play NES games to this day..

chadlhorton: A week or two ago numbers came out showing active paid subscriber's paying is > 9 million. The number of total active subscribers is higher. WOW is going nowhere.

BrianOliver-o6j: My main gripe is everyone's so afraid to get banned they dont talk trade chat is pathetic im the only one telling jokes you should all be ashamed

Nov 20 2025

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