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[Lucifer]

Kungen, Endidia GM, Retires

Seems like one of the most known warrior and guild leader of one of world top guilds (Ensidia), decided to quit playing. Here are Kungen's words:

Kungen said:

I've been playing since the release which was about 5 years ago and that's quite a long time. The first year the game was a 5 of 5 to me, the second a 4 of 5, the third a 3 of 5... You can see where this is going, I just don't enjoy the game the same way anymore. And so after having thought about it for a while, I finally decided that it was time to call it quits.

Ensidia will continue normally with Mackzter, Ekyu and Caleb in the leadership. You can read the entire new about his retirement over here.

WoW Loses 600k Subscribers

We were used to milestone news from Blizzard... All these years we saw the number of subscribers going up with every content release, more or less. Well, this time, according to curse.com, the subscribers went down from 12M to 11.4M at the end of March.
The playerbase drop was announced by Mike Morhaime, CEO of Blizzard Entertainment.,during Activision Blizzard earnings call. According to Mike Morhaime, the subscribers number fluctuates based on content consumption.
Seems like we should expect the new content to be released faster.

[menos]

Well, Rift was released in March or something, a lot of people migrated then just to check it out. It's interesting, since lately, I see more and more people coming back to WoW (at least people from my realm). I'm pretty sure Blizzard will go up again.

[Goht]

not really a suprise for me that they lost 600k users(would bet the most of them began at classic and tbc), funny thing is that kungen also retired and i think he retired with the same reason then the most of the 600k. its just the experience you get with all the years playing, its not funny or epic anymore when you beat a "normal" boss encounter(does not count for endbosses like arthas or deathwing or really really well designed bosses which are rare these days). you just think "hey he´s down" and thats pretty much it. i feel the same i cleared all normal mode bosses so far and from playing it was ok but not like "wow thats awesome" but i have absolut zero intention to go on hardmodes. absurd that the first boss in the new zg is at the moment the best designed encounter in cata(love this labyrinth thing, pls do a real labyrinth encounter like chess event style blizzard!!) for me and he isn´t even a raidboss.