Q2/2014 Sub prediction and discussion thread (5th August, 2014)

[Kezotar]

Looks broken to me.

Are you sure? It works perfectly fine to me.. Maybe you need to be a subscriber..

[Osmeric]

Are you sure? It works perfectly fine to me.. Maybe you need to be a subscriber..

Clear your browser cache and see if you can still see it. If not, maybe they put it up by accident and then took it down.

Or maybe you were BSing us. We'll see next week!

[Deadite]

Are you sure? It works perfectly fine to me.. Maybe you need to be a subscriber..

I don't think this forum supports links from the future.

[Kezotar]

I don't think this forum supports links from the future.

Clear your browser cache and see if you can still see it. If not, maybe they put it up by accident and then took it down.

Or maybe you were BSing us. We'll see next week!

Hmm, we will see. Maybe you need to use internet explorer? Works for me..

[Osmeric]

Hmm, we will see. Maybe you need to use internet explorer? Works for me..

No, it's not an html problem. The URL is bad, giving a server-side error page.

[Kezotar]

No, it's not an html problem. The URL is bad, giving a server-side error page.

Again, maybe you need to be a subscriber?

[finskee]

I'm joining the whiners. I'm going to predict doom and gloom with a side of fries. Blizzard just makes mistakes left and right, and they don't seem to care about the players anymore, so I'm going to predict a loss of 6.5 million subs. Hopefully we can get this stupid mini-game finished and move on with TITAN for god sakes its been 10 years already and I'm sick and tired of them cash cowing this no content game.

[Terahertz]

Even though I don't think blizz deserves it in the slightest I think it's around the same as last year.

[Lochton]

No, it's not an html problem. The URL is bad, giving a server-side error page.

Again, maybe you need to be a subscriber?

There is no such active subscriber link. Tried parting it up, writing it as others, nothing.

[Osmeric]

Again, maybe you need to be a subscriber?

Unlikely. That counts as "material information", and has to be made publicly available (US SEC Regulation FD). It would make no sense to keep the page viewable only by subscribers.

Again: clear your browser cache then try to look at the link. Did you do that?

[Lochton]

Unlikely. That counts as "material information", and has to be made publicly available (US SEC Regulation FD). It would make no sense to keep the page viewable only by subscribers.

Again: clear your browser cache then try to look at the link. Did you do that?

Well, it wouldn't contain any information anyways. It hasn't been set to note yet. And indeed, public information should be revealed to all. The investor's subscription is a different thing. Various tools and functions but in the end, same information.

[Osmeric]

Well, it wouldn't contain any information anyways. It hasn't been set to note yet. And indeed, public information should be revealed to all. The investor's subscription is a different thing. Various tools and functions but in the end, same information.

Did you clear your browser cache and reload? Yes or no?

[Lochton]

Did you clear your browser cache and reload? Yes or no?

Think you are asking the wrong person. That link has never been holding any active information towards of subscriber numbers for this quarter, no matter in what way it is re-written or searched.

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Activision Blizzard Releases Second Quarter 2014 Financial Results (5th August, 2014)
1:30 p.m. Pacific Time (4:30 p.m. Eastern Time)

Subscriber-graph link
Activision-Blizzard Quarterly results
1st Quarter of 2014 results

[shise]

Well, it's summer, end of X pack and a long time has passed since SoO came out.

So it's quite natural to see a huge lose of subs, yet, it might not be as big since Beta stuff kinda makes people feel the need of logging in.

I don't care, but I'll go with around 300k less players. Probably less.

[Tennis]

I have no idea how people can still play WoW without new content for such a long time.
For me it get's really boring after about 2 months of doing same thing over and over.

Me either. Especially when you have to pay for it monthly.

[Osmeric]

Think you are asking the wrong person.

Oops! Never mind.

[Deleted]

Hmm, we will see. Maybe you need to use internet explorer? Works for me..

Post a screenshot if you really can see something. With all and everything.

[Deleted]

Something your beloved GW2 doesn't even have: a basic mount. It is really funny talking about content in a so called MMO which has no other transportation in closed zones surrounded by invisible walls ... than a loading screen...

GW2 stated clearly before the game was even released that they would never include mounts. It was a design decision.

As always Benbos fukks up and demonstrates that he knows fukk all about MMOs.

I guess u havent read the thousands of threads discussing how flying mounts ruined Wows open world... oh i forgot Benobos doesnt read what other people write, he just creates bullshit and presents it as fact.

[Deleted]

5th of august is when I get my exam results >.<

On topic, since it has mostly been in decline for a while and the fact that it's near the end of an expansion I am going to say it has lost at least around 200-400k subs.

[BenBos]

2.5 mil sub loss. Having 4 versions of the same raid, and having no new content will hit them hard.

Bet taken: you pay me the difference in cash.

Curiously enough nobody even considers the influence of Hearthstone. Could there be an influence ? Sure in $$$ earned, but in returning to play WOW ?

I guess it could. A pity 2 MMO's launched in the quarter, so we won't see HS's direct impact on subs immediately. Btw Hearthstone is now in position 3 in grossings in my country on the iPad. It beats 2 out of 3 games from Supercell. You know the games that made 900 million dollars in 2013 alone. And Supercell doesn't even publish on the PC market ...

If losses are moderate, I suspect HS has a positive impact on WOW recruiting. Blizzard will publish more of these WOW franchises, I am sure.