Not looking forward to this...

[drarkan]

I think bliz should expect another drop in subscribers after the one year commitment people gave for D3, and before that, a small drop of those who didn't commit. With games like SWTOR and Skyrim, they should be doing things to keep subs, not loosing them.

[Ualaa]

Blizzard is a rather successful company.
I'm pretty sure they always look for ways to both retain subscribers and attract new ones.

I'd imagine they will stagger the releases of Starcraft, Diablo, Warcraft and MMO games, along with anything else they bring out.
The MMO games are subscription based, so the free Diablo with a year commitment could easily become their model for any non-subscription product they release; that way, they get a year of subscriptions from anyone interested in both Wow and any other Blizzard product.

[Gomotron]

We believe this will make for a more balanced game, and remove alot of stress from our realm servers, allowing players to enjoy a lag-free experience!.

Hahahaha meaning there will be mass cancellations?

Sounds fishy to me. Overly simplistic typically doesn't work out so well in the real world. It's going to take a LOT more balancing than that to do a proper squish.

[Zub]

Oh my, I can't believe people actually consider this as potentially being legit, when i wrote it in 5min after a couple glasses of wine, hehe

Then again, i did quote my source, which everyone obviously checked.. since it points to hellokitty.com ;-)

[Multibocks]

LOL nice

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Then again, i did quote my source, which everyone obviously checked.. since it points to hellokitty.com ;-)

I didn't click that link as it was obviously a keylogger.

[Zub]

I didn't click that link as it was obviously a keylogger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouseover :-p

[ebony]

i don't know why players are crying over there 1.5m hp noone going to quit if they do then there e-peen is far to big. there still be a jump from 85-90 but just no big jump from 59-60 69-70 79-80 thats all there changeing.

[Multibocks]

English, do you speak it?

/kidding

If you don't know why, then maybe you should... I don't know... read the thread. Also:

It seems to me that some of those that have expressed misgivings about the squish are worried about feeling 'nerfed' when facing older content, but the item squish shouldn't mean that soloing older raid content will die, necessarily. Though we appreciate the feedback, I think it's safe to say that we wouldn't want anyone to turn their back on the idea purely out of concern for losing the ability to take down older raids solo or in small groups.

Isn't the point of big numbers that they're big relative to the other numbers in the game, though? I can't speak for you, obviously, but I enjoyed putting out big numbers in previous expansions, and I expect that once I got a feel for the new baselines, I'd likely feel the same way in the future as well.

I highlighted necessarily, because this sounds like an out if it does change. They will say something like, "We didn't promise it wouldn't change!"

[Khatovar]

Having an out goes without saying for anything Blizzard plans to, or not to, do. The numbers you're seeing in that original post don't even mean anything yet, they could well decide that's too far and the item squish isn't going to be that big or even happen at all.

We still don't know anything yet. I don't think it's worth buying heavy duty umbrellas over.