What brackets are active right now?
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Rusks
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Flaxy
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Thats it? I think 10-19 is also decreasing in activity.
Srs
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Depends on how you read the trend. Population is way up since they fixed bg queues, compared to what it was. 19s saw a lot of new faces when people started to realize that the 20s bracket was never going to be competitive. Unfortunately, like half of them made rogues, did nothing in BGs, and probably got tired of getting yelled at in chat.
The people that couldn't hack it, probably quit, but honestly the bracket isn't that elitist. If you are a friendly player, that helps your team, you'll get along fine. But if you're a douchebag who sits in stealth and does nothing all game, you'll get a bad rep. Basically, the players that thought they could just do what they normally did as 29s, probably met a lot of criticism and quit.
If population is decreasing, I think that it's just a function of people giving up on WoW pvp in general. That is, I don't think it's losing any more members than, say, endgame pvp is. Probably less percentage wise, since twinks are dedicated bunch.
Anyway, as far as what twink brackets are active: 29s crutch on the trials filling up games, and is non-competitive, so I wouldn't really even put it into the same category as the other twink brackets. It's its own thing. The current twink brackets, as far as I can tell, are 19s and 90s. People are trying to bring back 39s, but it's going to be a building process.
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Allybeboba
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As srs bsns noted above, WoW is losing subscribers. I believe they lost approximately 25% of their subscription base in the first quarter of 2015. It is down to about 7.5 million. I do not know what that compares to in Q1 2014, since Blizzard gained a lot of subs due to WoD. But, I suspect it was about the same as it is now.
In other words, Blizzard gained approximately 2.5 million subs over the coarse of year. And it peaked in Q4. Starter accounts are not counted in those numbers.
So we are sitting at about the same amount of total players that we had in game that we had last year, mid Q2. But, instead of being on an upward trend, the game is on a downward spiral of population growth.
No tdlr...
/cheers
In other words, Blizzard gained approximately 2.5 million subs over the coarse of year. And it peaked in Q4. Starter accounts are not counted in those numbers.
So we are sitting at about the same amount of total players that we had in game that we had last year, mid Q2. But, instead of being on an upward trend, the game is on a downward spiral of population growth.
No tdlr...
/cheers
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artonkn
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Numbers dont count tokens as they are early Q2
Tom Ganks
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The numbers are still quite high in terms of profit. Blizzard "suffering" a loss in sub count is an overstatement.
Yearly average income from 8 million subscribers on the monthly cost alone can be 1.4 billion+
Yearly income through microtransactions and expansion costs are probably up there, if not higher than monthly sub income.
And that's wow alone.
I know they gotta pay their 6000+ employees (400+ million a year), along with insurance, marketing, etc. and server maintenance is an average 40-50 million a year, but I seriously can't see them hurting. They just hit lazy phases and release new content whenever they start taking a hit.
Yearly average income from 8 million subscribers on the monthly cost alone can be 1.4 billion+
Yearly income through microtransactions and expansion costs are probably up there, if not higher than monthly sub income.
And that's wow alone.
I know they gotta pay their 6000+ employees (400+ million a year), along with insurance, marketing, etc. and server maintenance is an average 40-50 million a year, but I seriously can't see them hurting. They just hit lazy phases and release new content whenever they start taking a hit.
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Flaxy
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You made some good points. And i tried 29s and got bored so quick its unreal.
Im currently trying to bring activity back to 70s through my friends list and theres currently a weekly 25man raid team at level 80 so im hoping those brackets come back.
I do wish i had the money to twink in the 90 bracket tho lol.
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Flaxy
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10-19
20-29
90-99
I'm still waiting for some activity to pop out of nowhere for the 60 and 70 bracket
70s are getting bgs randomly.
i hear 60s are pretty active but havent really tried it myself.
You should come 80 and try out raiding with my friends and I every friday.
SionIV
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Are you playing in the US? I've been in queue for 70's 10+ hours every day and haven't gotten in even once. On EU there isn't even an estimated on 60 or 70, and you'll sit hours waiting.
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Flaxy
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Yes US. But most of the time you have to get people on their 70s, usually easy if you have many active twinks added.
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Achievement Hunting
My main in Wotlk was my 80 priest twink up until the end of MoP, who is now my only 100 :/
I loved that bracket, I definitely would need to make anew 80 twink
Conq
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19s are active, Not only will activity naturally increase as we approach summer, but we have the Twinkcup hype, as well as Project GG Nineteen, and a growing base of players who like to see 19s activity year round, 19s is a bracket about to boom.
Allybeboba
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KaBOOM!!
I normally run my 19 from my back water server solo. I recently created a couple on BH. Although I already had toons there. I had not had updated my BH 19's. I have been seeing TONs of 19's on both sides of the fence there in the last few weeks.
/cheers
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Flaxy
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My main in Wotlk was my 80 priest twink up until the end of MoP, who is now my only 100 :/
I loved that bracket, I definitely would need to make anew 80 twink
Well come around. Server doesnt matter, we have people from different ones all coming together on at least one night to run 85 raids and do 2s/3s.
I even chill on my 80 just to do xmog runs / farming since i can solo 70 raids. Pretty chill level
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Flaxy
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Maybe i'm logging in too late or while games are going on then.
I've seen plenty of 19s but ive had numerous times where ive sat in ~20min queues so i assumed they werent popping and just logged.