Everyone: It's gonna drop by the millions!!!
Blizzard: -100k
Everyone: Look at that huge drop! The game is tanking!
I mean 4.5 million over the course of the expansion is pretty bad but I was honestly expecting much higher this quarter.
Ever since the game started losing subs, only two other times has the drop been as low as 100k. Typically the drop is closer to 300k it looks like.
Taking into account how badly WoD gets slammed, losing only an extra 100k people in Q3 is actually really good.
On the graph of subscribers, if you flatten the spikes when MoP and WoD came out, it looks like the decline started in Cat, MoP slowed the decline and it accelerated in WoD.
Holy shit
I cant believe we only lost like 100-200K subs
This probably sets a precedent for the future
Lmao at all the people saying it was going to be less than 2 million now.
Fairly small amount of content on the horizon, fairly mediocre expansion and still 5 times the Subs of the next nearest game.
GAME SURE IS DED GUISE. I guess the rest of the MMO's out there are 60ft under Lmao.
Hi WoW haters. Why are you suprised? Because YOU dont enjoy the game, you expected another million sub loss? hahaha.
WoW cannot die no matter how much you want it to. There are still millions of loyal players that will never give up.
This is probably gonna be the last time you see a sub loss for awhile so enjoy it while you can.
See you when you re-sub for Legion you haters, cuz we all know you will.
Tokens softened the blow.
Doesn't change the fact servers feel dead. When there isn't any words flying in trade during prime hours on Emerald Dream(NA) it is a sign of bad times.
There's a very committed core player base that isn't going to degrade that quickly. It's probably in the three million or so range. Not surprised we only lost 100k. With 6.2 the game became very alt friendly to level to 100 and gear up. A lot of people are doing the alt thing. Legion announcement also likely helped, as will Blizzcon.
"I don't always play my warlock, but when I do, I prefer destruction."
- The Most Interesting Player in the World . . . of Warcraft
So, MMO champion gets the numbers before the investors? I am a bit confused. Isn't the call tomorrow? I've checked back several calls and this is the first call that was announced the day before the call.
The thing to remember though is that they announce the numbers a month after their quarter actually ends, subs are only going to go down from where they're at since there is zero new content. I cancelled mine a couple weeks ago since there isn't a point of paying for nothing, and people like me will continue to do so until Legion releases or gets closer to release.
see this is what i was talking about, the first rule of the wow is dying fanatic, they don't care about facts, just keep preaching the hate about the game full force denial of anything that doesn't support their hating.
5.5million LIES IT'S ALL LIES IT'S 1.2MILLION THE GAME IS DEAAAAAADDDDDDD!!
If past performance is any indication, we can probably expect to see ~5 million subs left by the time Legion comes out. I don't see them releasing anything major to try to bring people back before the end of q4. Not trying to be a debbie downer, just being realistic.