Originally Posted by
Duridi
Well, as I also wrote somewhere, I think actually in the same post you quoted, Cataclysm pissed off a large chunk of players. People didn't only lose interest, they also lost faith in the company. Do remember that they did to a complete turn-around during the expansion, and that's obviously going to upset people and hurt their trust. It won't be easy convincing those people to come back.
That's why I'm saying I find 900k regained(if that is what happened), a healthy chunk at this point. Admitedly, I found it to be more than I was expecting.
My next point is, also stated before. It's been considered a major loss if they lose 800k during a quarter, yet this quarter where they regained 900k, it's a tiny gain not worthy mention. Sure, we had a new expansion released, but above point still stand regarding that... the expansion was also released 5 days before the quarter ended... and we know nothing of the next two quartery reports yet. It really can go both ways. Maybe people sitting on the fence will return, or maybe a lot of those who gave it another chance will yet again leave. We don't know that, but I am sure we have a lot more fence-sitters this time around than we had before... due to how upsetting many found Cataclysm. Then we have those that have completely given up, or just feel done.