WoW Lost 800k Subscribers, down to 10.3M
Activision Blizzard latest earning call revealed that World of Warcraft lost another 800,000 subscribers last quarter, following the loss of 300k subscribers announced last quarter and 600k loss from the quarter before that. This brings us to 1.7 million subscribers lost in the last 3 quarters. Some things they made note of on the call:


  • Most of the subscriptions were lost in China.
  • There is normally an increase in subscriptions around December.
  • The decreased profit came from all of the games in development and no launches occurring.
  • There will be at least two major releases next year.


Patch 4.3 - PTR Build 14966
A new PTR build is being deployed on test realms!
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Items
  • All replica armors from the Darkmoon Faire now require level 60 to be equipped.

Death Knight (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • Raise Ally now has a 40 yards range, up from 30 yards.

Mage (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)

Paladin (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • Redemption now has a 40 yards range, up from 30 yards.

Tier 13

Priest (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)

Shaman (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)



Reminder: Class Design & Balance Q&A
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
To follow up on our first World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria developer Q&A on the CoverItLive platform, we’re gathering the entire class design team to field your questions on the past, present, and future of World of Warcraft classes. Anyone is welcome to join in the live Q&A this Wednesday, November 9, beginning at approximately 10:45 a.m. and concluding around noon PST.

You can read along via the CoverItLive client embedded below while the Q&A is live. To participate, you just use your Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, or OpenID credentials, or simply sign in as a guest. If you’re on the go while the event’s underway on Wednesday, be sure to check out the free mobile apps available on the Android Market and iTunes Store.

We’ll see you back here on Wednesday morning!

Brazilian Portuguese Language Availability
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
With the release of the next World of Warcraft content update, Hour of Twilight (patch 4.3), players on European realms will be able to play World of Warcraft in Brazilian Portuguese. On December 7 a realm dedicated to the Portuguese community will open with optional time-limited free character transfers from specific European English realms with high Portuguese populations. Please stay tuned to these forums for additional information.

Trading Card Game Art Gallery Update
The Trading Card game art gallery has been updated with ten new pieces.



This article was originally published in forum thread: WoW Down to 10.3M Subscribers, PTR Build 14966, Class Balance Q&A, TCG Art started by Boubouille View original post
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  1. mmocd03f375e36's Avatar
    i thought the asian market was going well tbh..
  1. lagito's Avatar
    Frostmage buff would be awesome if it weren't because there is no sinergy with its other stats... Frostbolt should be able to benefit from Mastery
  1. Vehemence's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Dmitri View Post
    800,000 bitching, whining, "vanilla was best"-elitists gone. I shed a tear.
    Dat Generalization...
  1. Inactivity's Avatar
    WTB mage buffs for next patch.
  1. Thunderlight's Avatar
    Fucking awesome!!! Portuguese servers!!! Yeeeehaw!
  1. mmoc4a1134da9a's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Dmitri View Post
    800,000 bitching, whining, "vanilla was best"-elitists gone. I shed a tear.
    More like 800k chinese goldfarmer beat by the competition and Guardian pup
  1. Hean's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by matheney2k View Post
    Is the bullet saying "There will be at least two major releases next year." talking specifically about WoW only, since everything else in that post was WoW-related? Besides MoP what else could there be? Maybe a huge content patch?
    4.3 :U Just saying.
  1. Shorni's Avatar
    Now just wait for MoP....
  1. micho's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ScorchHellfire View Post
    Are they saying MoP won't be next year or are they saying HotS won't be next year? Because it seemed pretty likely that both would be coming out in 2012 before...
    they sait ATLEAST
  1. The Last DJ's Avatar
    Oh goody. This'll piss gasoline all over the "WOW IS DYIN" fires. Sweeeeet. Regarding that last TCG artwork ... dem thigh muscles. Holy crap. I also think his torso's as thick as it is wide.
  1. Evalrobot's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Trickster76 View Post
    Two major releases? Two expansions? Or just two major Blizzard titles?
    Diablo/Wow MoP
  1. walrusaurus's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ScorchHellfire View Post
    Are they saying MoP won't be next year or are they saying HotS won't be next year? Because it seemed pretty likely that both would be coming out in 2012 before...
    My guess would be that they aren't totally confident that they can push HotS before christmas, so they said 2. D3 is pretty much done, and no way they pull an ICC again with Mists. Better to under promise and over deliver than vice versa.
  1. hiragana's Avatar
    inb4 shit storm. i expect wow to keep gradually losing subs, but it wont affect content for a while yet. Still looking forward to MoP no matter how many people i dont care about leave
  1. Keske's Avatar
    China is having the disaster as is know as WotLK on them, no wonder the subs are going down.
  1. micho's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Evalrobot View Post
    Diablo/Wow MoP
    and the sc2 exp seemed quite ready to me
  1. mmoc31884a9e67's Avatar
    Dubbs - WANT PANDA: blizz lost 800k subs last quarter
    Dubbs - WANT PANDA: still have 10.3 million sub
    sDubbs - WANT PANDA: people crying the games dead
    Dubbs - WANT PANDA: wat
    .repstar: im confuse
    repstar: lmaorepstar: ONLY 10.3MILLION PEOPLE PLAY IT
    repstar: DEAD GAME CBA
    Dubbs - WANT PANDA: fucking getting a new game
    Dubbs - WANT PANDA: cba with this
    Dubbs - WANT PANDA: sit in orgrimmar and noones even there
    Dubbs - WANT PANDA: just like
    Dubbs - WANT PANDA: couple thousand
    repstar: couple thousand?
    repstar: sounds like a ghost town :/
    Dubbs - WANT PANDA: i know right
    Dubbs - WANT PANDA: time to go play source again with its 60k players at peak times
  1. Kazlehoff's Avatar
    Most subs were lost in china?
    Easy to explain.
    Gold farmers Switching from Farming accounts to Hacking player accounts to steal the gold. no sense leaving the farming accounts open when they are a drain on resources and when you get so much more from hacking players.
    I'm guessing quite a few of the lost accounts came from that.
    then there's casuals leaving cause the game was hard in ways they didn't want it to be.... and long timers leaving cause they've been playing since vanilla or TBC and are just bored.

    The Sky.It is not falling.
    Besides, when you look at Wow: Lame Panda Island and everything from this years blizzcon some things stand out to me.
    1: You can usually tell when a Pay MMO is starting to lose steam when they start offering game play (beyond a demo) free. blizzard has done that with 1-20 being free, and TBC being Free for people who purchase the original game.
    2: The "free D3 when you sub for a year of wow" screams to me that they want to try to transition there older, more mature players over to Diablo 3. this fits with the Theme of "appease the Younger Gamers" that Wow:PandaManLand seemed to be taking.
  1. mmoc1fedf25cb9's Avatar
    800k ppl went to rehab, kudos to them tbh.
  1. mmoc693ae91c3a's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Trickster76 View Post
    Two major releases? Two expansions? Or just two major Blizzard titles?
    Mists of Pandaria and Diablo 3
  1. chaud's Avatar

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