WoW Loses 1.1 Million Subscribers, Down to 9.1 Million

[Ashley1988]

love it lol

---------- Post added 2012-08-09 at 11:34 PM ----------

agreed.........

[Jinz]

Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, a good portion of you will be playing MoP. Pokemon and Panda's aside, theres still some competition to be fulfilled from raiding/arena etc; or just plain out talking with friends online and just chilling.

Just accept it and move along, your opinions mean nothing to blizzard because as a business their number one goal is making as much money as possible before sh!t hits the fan.

[MrSerious]

Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, a good portion of you will be playing MoP. Pokemon and Panda's aside, theres still some competition to be fulfilled from raiding/arena etc; or just plain out talking with friends online and just chilling.

Just accept it and move along, your opinions mean nothing to blizzard because as a business their number one goal is making as much money as possible before sh!t hits the fan.

and losing 25% of their customers is not "shit hitting the fan"... think about it. I for one will NOT be returning, like it or not.

[jbombard]

and losing 25% of their customers is not "shit hitting the fan"... think about it. I for one will NOT be returning, like it or not.

I think you will see a bunch of people back for the release. Then 2 months afterwards when there is nothing left to do, and Blizzard has basically took the money and run, people will start to realize no new content is incoming and bail, and likely not be coming back.

[Repefe]

So if a person wants to raid ... what game does he go to instead of WoW ? Rift is one alternative, but many don't like Rift visual style or some. TOR is no better than WoW when it comes to raiding. And what else is there ? For questing, non raiding, pvp sure ... TOR, TSW, GW2 among others are viable options. For raiding what else is available ?

[jbombard]

So if a person wants to raid ... what game does he go to instead of WoW ? Rift is one alternative, but many don't like Rift visual style or some. TOR is no better than WoW when it comes to raiding. And what else is there ? For questing, non raiding, pvp sure ... TOR, TSW, GW2 among others are viable options. For raiding what else is available ?

Play what you enjoy? I don't think there is one answer for everybody. If you feel WoW gives you enough value for your $15 a month, you shouldn't feel guilty for enjoying it. If you don't there are alternatives like Rift. I will say though that the developers work a lot harder to provide value to their subscribers than Blizzard does, but ultimately it comes down to what you enjoy.

[Repefe]

Play what you enjoy? I don't think there is one answer for everybody. If you feel WoW gives you enough value for your $15 a month, you shouldn't feel guilty for enjoying it. If you don't there are alternatives like Rift. I will say though that the developers work a lot harder to provide value to their subscribers than Blizzard does, but ultimately it comes down to what you enjoy.

No guilt ... just pointing out that for ppl to leave there has to be something they can go to. Ppl don't leave into void ... they move on to something else. I am missing the "else". The charts that were posted about eastern subscriptions show that WoW is not no1 MMORPG in east by a long shot. When eastern players don't like something about WoW they have plenty of highly popular options to switch to. Western players don't.

[Ryme]

Please MR person who knows why everyone left tell me more on how LFR made people quit a lot more and don't go *OOOO because they cleared the content faster and had nothing to do* cause they did its called PVP/Normal Mode/Heroic Mode/Achevement hunt/Mount grind..ect.... maybe a few left but there is a lot of other major problems that made way more people Quit then LFR....LFD didn't even make people leave and its the samething besides the fact it isn't a 10/25man raid.

I don't claim to, I'm just not stupid enough to assume that in the quarter with the most losses, the major game changing feature associated with it has absolutely zero effect.

[fuhtian]

I do know that GW2 so far has seemed like a flop, it hasn't been the game people thought it would be

Sorry for chopping your post down to one sentence, but this section really got me curious. On what ground do you "know" that GW2 is a flop so far? Are you aware that the game hasn't even launched yet? So far there have been some short stress tests, and three three-day open beta weekends, which were immensely popular ("hundreds of thousands", and open only to pre-orders and some press).

The game is fantastically fun and has amazing mechanics that actually SURPRISE you when you first encounter them. Jumping puzzles with multiple solutions was what got me, but there is so much more...

And
the
game
is
BEAUTIFUL

At any rate, calling GW2 a "flop" at this point in time is a bit premature. I think it will a great success in its own right, and WoW will continue on as it has been.

[Deficineiron]

I think you will see a bunch of people back for the release. Then 2 months afterwards when there is nothing left to do, and Blizzard has basically took the money and run, people will start to realize no new content is incoming and bail, and likely not be coming back.

the worldwide number may not reflect this, though. china isn't getting mop then, and they will presumably continue to bleed subs since they also got 4.3 in december. However, with only like 6 days of smeared sales in the q3 gaap number, it should be possible to sort this out to some degree, assuming they give some cod elite sub guidance as well.

[Wrathbaby]

Still, it provides at least some form of entry barrier. F2P is full of people that are so idiotic that words can't even describe it.

The irony in this is strong looking at the majority of people playing WoW

[Tomana]

The irony in this is strong looking at the majority of people playing WoW

Then you clearly haven't play some F2Ps. It's much worse. Alas, in these days, people can even have a job and still behave like 12-year-old, so of course it's not a panacea.

[Wrathbaby]

I actually play League of Legends quite often and the community is terrible, that doesn't mean WoW's community is better because there's a monthly subscription