Where is the buzz surrounding Mists of Pandaria?
Blizzard certainly hopes that players will return to Azeroth to play the coming Mists of Pandaria expansion. For instance, the previous expansions The Burning Crusade buy WoTLK Gold, Wrath of the Lich King, and Cataclysm all received favorable reviews with each surpassing sales of its predecessor. Blizzard might be hoping for Mists of Pandaria to spike subscriptions, but signs are pointing to that it isn't occurring.
The P2Pah Trax study found that the level of interest in Mists of Pandaria is seriously lower than previous expansions. In the case of The Burning Crusade about three months to hit 1.000 P2Pah fans; Wrath of the Lich King just five days, and Cataclysm only four days. Mists of Pandaria, on contrary was first announced in the month of October and had just 587 followers by March 21.
Not just are P2Pah users showing less excitement about Mists of Pandaria as well, but the people who are using the game aren't speaking positive about the extension. P2Pah Trax runs a monthly survey measuring purchase intent and impressions of quality of upcoming titles. In its most current study, Mists of Pandaria ranked second to last among 67 titles across different genres, with a excellent quality score of 6.0. It's located between Kinect Star Wars (65th) and Elveon (67th), in case you were thinking.
World of Warcraft may be losing players, but the rumors of its immediately impending death are greatly exaggerated. The game still has around 10 million paying subscribers, as well Blizzard has already laid out plans for expansions in the future. But it is in unknown territory with Mists of Pandaria. If the data in the P2PahTrax is representative of the wider World of Warcraft community buy WoW WoTLK Classic Gold, then Blizzard is in danger of releasing a badly received expansion that is under-selling in Mists of Pandaria.
