WoW Down to 10.3M Subscribers, PTR Build 14966, Class Balance Q&A, TCG Art

I think we need to be realistic here I personally have invested a lot of money into WoW and can see why people would be inclined to stick around but the ships going down, one day its gonna have to end. Terenas said it himself, "No king rules forever." Blizzard is clearly backing out of this franchise to invest in their other two series. They've been created this decade... SC2 has done a great deal to the development of e-sports and they're gonna want to make D3 all it can be. They didn't even have the time to invest in an actual CGI trailer for MoP, whats that say? WoW may still have a lot of players but their other two ships have to potential to keep them around much longer. Even the plot has reached its climax, the only thing now they can do to introduce a greater threat than the destruction of the world would be Sargeras or the Titans... anything else would not satisfy the high expectations they've built us up gradually with each expansion. Its time to move on to something new, its not like Blizzard isn't presenting you with viable options.

all it is is Diablo 3 and DOTA that lame ass looking game

Originally Posted by Boubouille

WoW Lost 800k Subscribers, down to 10.3M

[*]Most of the subscriptions were lost in China.

It's why we get pandas lol

Originally Posted by wolftech

I am one of those investors. I do find it funny how people think 10.3 million people playing wow (and remember, they ONLY count those subscriptions with creditcards as active) as 'WoW is dying'. That is still well over 10 times as many people that have an active subscription on Rift and more than all the other Pay2Play mmo's out there combined, currently.

benn player for 3 years been a subscriber since last month XD

Originally Posted by yamilonewolf

Is it just me or are druids not getting a b-res or even normal res upgrade with that build? seems odd lol. (not a druid)

Druids have always had 40yd rezzes, that's the main reason for the changes.

Originally Posted by Holydruid

i bet my life wow isnt "dying" within atleast 4 years.

I see your 4 and raise you 16 more years.

Originally Posted by Thunderlight

Fucking awesome!!! Portuguese servers!!! Yeeeehaw!

Are there really enough of us willing to relocate enough to fill a server? Plus the client is br-pt, worse than english as far as im concerned... Stormwind is called Ventobravo? No thanks... plus the accentued voices of translators... ugh..

Originally Posted by Migas11

Are there really enough of us willing to relocate enough to fill a server? Plus the client is br-pt, worse than english as far as im concerned... Stormwind is called Ventobravo? No thanks... plus the accentued voices of translators... ugh..

I kind of like Ventobravo Sounds like I have another toon name

I think the numbers will keep on dropping for the last two xpacs. I've been playing since 2006 and it's gotten old for me. I'll move on when swtor comes out. I'm not going to buy mop, but may buy the next/last xpac if it is indeed the Burning Legion xpac.

some of the comments about losing accounts in China and gold farmers are so retarded.

The whole reason almost all Chinese studio used to farm on foreign servers is because that it wasn't profitable to farm on Chinese servers. If Chinese farmers quit, you'd see bigger drops in US and EU servers.

Have you ever thought maybe those Chinese players quit because every patch they get the stuff shitted out by foreign players months later?

Hope they see see the numbers and announce the cancelation of MoP, or say that it was just a joke

Relax guys "It's just summer" yeah remember this excuse? lol.

I actually read that china forces inmates to be gold farmers; which might be a load of crap but ti actually wouldn't surprise me.

Now you all know why Bliz never did anything about all the chinese gold farmers ... they lose nearly a million of them and they are scared their stock is going to drop, and all the forums are burning with "wow is dead".

Originally Posted by wolftech

and remember, they ONLY count those subscriptions with creditcards as active

no they don't.
Go read what they mean by subscriptions.
it's every account active for a month, no matter how payed for.

Did Blizzard really thought they would hold such astronomical subscription numbers forever, whatever they would do ?

800k

Can't wait for all those monkies to jump in glee and rejoice in their whining/doomsaying/idiotic suggestions/"i told you so"/blizzard shoud have listened!/they ruined the game/MoP sucks etc..

Who cares if wow lost 1.3m subs this year that number is meaningless, now when you look at the % that's a different story.

Boub, the brazilian servers (for US servers) were also announced to be released december 6:
http://us.battle.net/wow/pt/blog/391...bro-08_11_2011.

Patch date maybe?

Edit: Layout

Originally Posted by rpdrichard

Hope they see see the numbers and announce the cancelation of MoP, or say that it was just a joke

I really don't understand people's problem with a panda continent. The Pandaren was in Warcraft 3, it was part of the story. We have cow men, pig men, aliens (orcs and draneai), elves (2 kinds), demons, undead walking and talking, trolls, gnomes, goblins , dwarves, harpies, walking rock, water, air and fire things, magical spells (holy crap I can shoot fire out of my hands!!!) and a whole expac where we go TO ANOTHER PLANET that is shattered, it's not even a planet anymore, with floating islands and waterfalls out of rocks with no river. All this fantasy but pandas, that were already part of the lore...that's just kiddie stuff.

O.o