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Yes and no. Go back a few years here on this forum, and you had a larger active total posting regardless of if an expansion was out or not. I can look on the first page of this forum, and it will date back the full month of June. Go back a few years, and you see a page will date back only a a day or two, with active, posting members.

Where did those members go? Time only tells that secret. What keeps new members from registering here and posting regularly? That's the question. I saw it at it's peak, and enjoyed my time here. Before WoW, during my EQ days. It started declining when Allakhazam himself sold the site. I cannot say if that was a factor or not.

Damnit I had $20 on the "epic meltdown spamfest followed by a ban" route.

What is there to discuss that we haven't already, probably two or three times? I mean, we usually answer any questions that come along, but those are fairly rare.

I blame a decline in new players, myself. I think MMOs in general are probably on a slow spiral out of fashion and things will simply continue on such a decline.

As new content is brought out, new questions arise. We're in a slow point with few questions and few newbies to ask the old ones.

Maz summed it up quite nicely so I feel no need to regurgitate that information and add my own point of view. Why do any of you still continue to actively post here? Or are you more of a lurker/casual poster?

Edited, Jun 29th 2012 9:48am by Magilicotti

Because there are people here that I'd bother to drink a beer with. Although I may not play on the same servers, I also prefer to talk WOW with people that I've interacted with over the course of the game's development.

Something like what Rhode said.

I also miss the old days when it was busier here, but don't really dwell on it. There's a group of people here I've grown accustomed to discussing things with, and that's fine with me. Also, to what Maz said, there's a lot that doesn't get discussed anymore simply because there's not a reason to. I mean we can point people to EJ, or debate which is better RAWR or Mr. Robot, but there's not a population here that theory-crafts anymore. I mean, I don't know about the rest but I don't have the kind of time I used to. So theory-crafting for me is less about spreadsheets, and more about what's the most effective way to farm gold while balancing a baby on my lap.

I wander over to other WoW forums as well, but there's not much I that motivates me to post much. A lot of the discussions happening we've had so many times here people won't participate in them, or won't take them seriously anymore. Some of that's a little bit of maturity I'd like to think. We're not all in a tizzy when there's no shaman in a Ensidia boss kill pic; FtoM classes come and go and such, and most here have seen more than their fair share. We've heard the "WoW is dying!" threads, people's new ideas for expansions, speculated about lore, etc. I'm not in beta, and I'm happy to save the surprise for when the expansion is released I guess, so that's not a big deal to me.

Ye olde casual gamer got olde I guess. Mostly content to toss the occasional idea around with the gang that's still here, reminisce about the old days a little, and yell at the youngins who won't git off mah lawn!

I never liked wowhead, still don't. As far as their forums are concerned, I've never gone there. I read the comments on particular items I rarely look up, but beyond that...no. Now I only hit wowhead for event guides.
I started Zam when FFXI came out, continued into WoW, FFXIV, then Rift. When I eventually quit WoW, I guess I'll join the lurkers...maybe.

I ate the unicorns. They were delicious.

Just speculating:

I'm guessing if ZAM had just been a WoW website they would have condensed a lot more. WoWhead was entirely a World of Warcraft site, while the WoW forums here were a fraction of the overall traffic for this site. It probably made sense to build on what they had there moreso than here. I'm guessing they didn't intend the forums here to fizzle as much as they did, but it probably didn't make sense to do much in the way of official upkeep in this corner of ZAM once WoWhead was purchased.

In short, not enough overlap to condense, and not a pressing reason to spend a lot of effort on upkeep here.

Edited, Jun 29th 2012 10:12am by someproteinguy

I'm mostly lurking and only post very irregular. I do miss the times when people like Mental, Bodhi, Jordster and Theo were really active here and a lot of lulz was flying around like it was when I started visiting this page. :(

Can't really substitute a good ol' flamewar.

I'm not drunk, the world is just super sober all the time!