So I see a article that says WoW is killing itself then gives no examples and then says ‘I’ll tell you why next week’. It almost seemed like a news post whining about raiding catering to the top 5% which WoW no longer even does.

I’d like to take some time to publicly codemn this piece of writing. This is shameless self promotion on the behalf of Inc gamers, giving us some hastily written and very poorly researched and thought out article. “Check next week for more”? What the hell is that?  Did the author run out of misguided, fraudulent things to comment on? WOW Has taken SO many steps to assure the casual members of the community at least some raid time, and face all the hardcore raiders of WOW have mostly now quit because any newb with a few hours on his/her hands can get GOOD loot. Please PLEASE Incgamers hire a competent writer who doesn’t base things on his own bias of being a completely inadequate gamer.  Hire me.

it sounds the same as monster under my bed… no examples, no nothing, even monster have beter chanses to be trusted, than this

All the things the author pointed out are kinda invalid for WoW. He says Battlegrounds and Raids ruined the game… Firstly, what else are level cap players to do? Second, they haven’t ruined the game - BGs and Raids are more popular than ever!

And has anyone told him there are 10 man raids now? Pugs can do them, it’s not an exclusive club anymore. Guess we’ll hve to wait and see if he comes up with better reasons for his conclusion next week.

Great… tell us something we don’t already know.

Blizzard dev have repeated publicized statistics about how low the end-game participation rate have been and how they had made it a goal to increase participation.  Meaning they know about the participation rate that this article is doom-n-gloom about.

Maybe Mr Hollis, as brilliant as he is, forgot where he got those statistics (or maybe he just made them up)?

Maybe if Hollis did research on recent WoW development, he would be writing about how Blizzard is successfully digging itself out of the hardcore-raiding pit.

Or maybe if he looked real hard, he would find out about how Blizzard’s attempts to do just that is alienating a lot of its fanbase and dispelling its hold over many of its most addicted players.

The more i think about it the more i think that article epic fails in delivering what its topic indicates.

I guess Jeff will get to the nitty gritty next week. I am looking forward to the second part of this.