WoW Up to 10 Million Subscribers, Garrison Campaign Quests Active, Nov 19 Hotfixes

WoW Up to 10 Million Subscribers
This afternoon Blizzard released the subscribers count as of November 13, 2014. This is up 2.6 million from the Q3 2014 call that listed WoW at 7.4 million subscribers.

Warlords of Draenor has sold over 3.3 million copies so far, up from 1.5 million pre-ordered in August.

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Garrison Campaign Quests Active
Garrison Campaign quests are now active and the one you get each week appears to be random.

One option you may get is from Khadgar's Servant in your garrison, which sends you to Shadowmoon Valley for a short quest chain that rewards Sargerei Disguise (which is not a Toy).



Patch 6.0.3 Hotfixes - November 19
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
  • Stables Level 2: Characters should now be immune to being dazed while riding their mounts.
  • The Forge Level 2: Solace of the Forge should now correctly only be usable while outdoors in Draenor.
  • Trading Post Level 2: Players should now be able to gain reputation with the Sha'tari Defense or Laughing Skull Orcs.
  • Outposts
    • Nagrand Tankworks: Wor'var Demolisher and Telaari Siege Engine now deals less damage against other players.

Classes
  • Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • General
      • Camouflage's stealth effect should now be reapplying correctly when the Hunter and their pet are stationary.
  • Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • Talents
      • Prismatic Crystal when conjured, should now correctly last for its full duration.
  • Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • General
      • Totemic Recall should now correctly refund the mana cost back when used.
    • Elemental
      • Earthquake can now only Stun a target once per cast.
  • Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • General
      • Resolved an issue where Glyph of Eye of Kilrogg was incorrectly allowing Eye of Kilrogg to fly while on Draenor.

Quests
  • Frostfire Ridge
    • [Requires a realm restart.] Tricks of the Trade: Characters that have undergone a faction change can now complete this quest if they had already completed it on the opposite faction.
  • Spires of Arak
    • Assault on Skettis: Increased the drop rates for Talon Key. Additionally, Apexis Sol-Mender, Glowing Energizer and, Stalwart Warden should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
    • [Requires a realm restart.] Bonus Objective: Bladefist Hold: Increased the spawn rates for Brood Mother Xylax, Bagdoth Goredrinker, and Val'dune Fleshcrafter.
    • Sol Sisters: Sol-Shaper Veoryx should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
  • Garrisons
    • Characters visiting someone else's Garrison should no longer be incorrectly seeing another player's daily quests.
    • Gladiator's Sanctum: Nemesis quests should no longer be incorrectly removed from the player's quest log if they log out while the building is under construction.
    • Goren Invasion!: Adjusted a number of spawn points so the invaders should no longer get stuck in Garrison buildings.
    • Scraps of Iron (Dwarven Bunker/War Mill): Completing the quest should no longer remove more Iron Horde Scraps than needed.

World Environment
  • Increased the number of situations where items and abilities slowing the player's falling speed could be used while in outdoor environments.

Creatures and NPCs
  • Graveltooth should now be using their inside voice to shout at players in the area instead of shouting at the entirety of Nagrand.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios
  • Reduced the item level requirement to queue for Normal difficulty Grimrail Depot, Shadowmoon Burial Grounds, The Everbloom, and Upper Blackrock Spire to 595 (down from 600).
  • Upper Blackrock Spire
    • Orebender Gor'ashan: Mobs from other parts of the Dungeon should no longer be joining the fight during the encounter.
  • Challenge Mode
    • Aviana's Feather should no longer be usable while in a Challenge Mode dungeon.
  • Proving Grounds
    • Statistics for Basic Healer (Endless) should no longer be incorrectly displaying under Basic Tank (Endless).

PvP
  • Increased the amount of players that can be in Ashran to 150.
  • [Requires a realm restart.] Primal Combatant PvP trinkets awarded from Gold Strongboxes should now contain stats that are more appropriate for the character's specialization.
  • Primal PvP trinkets should now be eligible to grant players the Gladiator's Distinction set bonus.
  • Primal Honor PvP gear should now correctly have a set bonus.

Items
  • Gnomish Net Launcher now has a level 91 requirement to equip and provides a more appropriate bonus to Versatility.
  • Invisibility Field's effect is now on a shared cooldown with other invisibility effects.

Bug Fixes
  • Resolved an issue where Draenor Perks for characters may sometimes not be saving correctly.

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This article was originally published in forum thread: WoW Up to 10 Million Subscribers started by chaud View original post
Published on 2014-11-19 10:13 PM
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  1. Osmeric's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Dastreus View Post
    So is this counting trial accounts?
    No, their active accounts number never includes free/trial accounts. It DOES include eastern pay-per-hour accounts that have been active in the last 30 days, though.
  1. Infernix's Avatar
    Awesome. They managed to get back to where they were before MOP was released.

    Let's see where they are in 3 months once the new wears off.
  1. Chickat's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ministabber View Post
    3.3million copies of WOD sold, so does this mean that 70% of the subs are now Asian players? Who don't actually have to buy the game because they pay by the hour to play, these players are counted active subs even if they only have 1 hour of game time left!
    I'm only bringing this up because blizzard are quick to dismiss a large fall in subs when the Asian leave.....yet quicker to include them when they join!
    Anyone would think we have a shareholder meeting incoming
    Not at all. Cata sold the same number in 24 hours with 12m subs. It actually shows that while players in the east are dropping, players in the west are either staying the same or growing slightly.
  1. shise's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Slirith View Post
    it'll drop by 3mil in 6 months. Expansions always bring back subscribers.
    By then they perfectly knew waht was coming, so they actually expanded and created several new servers.

    Ever since the end of Wrath it's been just the other way around, and suddenly boom, back to WotLK number almost.
  1. Chickat's Avatar
    Also, if these numbers are really from the 13th, that means the east hadn't gotten it yet meaning a small increase could still happen. They could go up to 11m maybe. China is a big audience though, and if the marketing there was good subs could go above 12m though revenue wouldn't grow much because eastern money makes like 10% of all of blizzards money.
  1. Saxtorph's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by glowpipe View Post
    its already down to like 8 mill with this terrible release. one week after and garrisons and dungeons still do not work
    Dungeons and Garrisons work fine for me and everyone in my guild. Sucks to be you.
  1. SodiumChloride's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lora Twinblade View Post
    MoP had a jump of 900k, WoD had a jump of 3.2 million.
    Err ... why is that a good thing?

    It would mean pre-MoP WoW had 9.1M subs while pre-WoD it only had 6.8M. I don't know but the former actually looks better from my point of view.

    All in all, MoP and WoD have about the same pulling power. They pulled in 10 million.
  1. Daten-shi's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by SodiumChloride View Post
    Err ... why is that a good thing?

    It would mean pre-MoP WoW had 9.1M subs while pre-WoD it only had 6.8M. I don't know but the former actually looks better from my point of view.

    All in all, MoP and WoD have about the same pulling power. They pulled in 10 million.
    When you say MoP and WoD pulled in 10 million, it means they pulled in additional 10 million subs. If you don't know what you're saying, don't post.
  1. Elrandir's Avatar
    Spoiler Alert, they're gonna lose all those new subs and more if they can't make garrisons, phasing and instance servers SOMEWHAT stable soon. Medium population realm and things are still broken more than half the time.
  1. Daten-shi's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Elrandir View Post
    Spoiler Alert, they're gonna lose all those new subs and more if they can't make garrisons, phasing and instance servers SOMEWHAT stable soon. Medium population realm and things are still broken more than half the time.
    Soon? it's been only a week since release, and realms are already stable.
  1. Pann's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Chickat View Post
    Not at all. Cata sold the same number in 24 hours with 12m subs. It actually shows that while players in the east are dropping, players in the west are either staying the same or growing slightly.
    It doesn't show anything of the sort. All we can discern is that is that Chinese and Western players that have not bought WOD outnumber the Western players that have bought it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daten-shi View Post
    Soon? it's been only a week since release, and realms are already stable.
    Really? Just last night garrisons were bugged once again, I was not able to log on to main for about three hours, and instance servers were hit and miss.
  1. Terracresta's Avatar
    With 3.3 million copies sold, so 6.7 million are playing without the expansion? Now I wonder how the adoption rates of the old expansions were as I always thought only a minority doesn't upgrade at release.
  1. Pann's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Terracresta View Post
    With 3.3 million copies sold, so 6.7 million are playing without the expansion? Now I wonder how the adoption rates of the old expansions were as I always thought only a minority doesn't upgrade at release.
    A good portion (the majority) of those 6.7million will be WOW China players who do not have to buy expansions.
  1. Tatakau's Avatar
    I bet Blizzard were annoyed they had to upgrade all their hardware

    They must of seen it coming, but they held out for as long as possible before they "upgraded" or flicked a switch.

    There is no way they could of done what they claimed in the small window of time they said.. BRB

    Ok I'm back just couldn't remember how to spell propaganda.
  1. Xires's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Salech View Post
    And if blizzard had not done the "free" mounts, the 7 day free game time and so on it would have only increased by 0.5-1 million, but blizzard is masters of inflating numbers to make the investors happy, blizzard when from quality to just "tricking" (advertising i know, but some call it tricking) higher numbers.


    Also, there is literally less than 10 people on my server in wod, no matter where i go, and 10 million and still there is like so many dead servers?, guess all of them are just hanging out on non dead servers.

    But hey, congrats to blizzard to getting the old people back with this expansion, too bad it is as shit as cata and mop, the newer more casual players however will most likely just go on their merry way soon.

    How did blizzard get 3 mil after 14 months of 1 raid?, man people must love paying for no content in this genre!
    Would rather have older more mature peeps come back then have 11 year olds like you hanging around with nasty attitudes. Btw, WoD is very very good and the numbers prove it. No way you ran around on a dead server when every single server had que times just to get in to play. Now back of the bus, Troll.
  1. Osmeric's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrair View Post
    I must have gotten ripped off cause i paid for it.
    Or they are gettng ripped off because they pay per hour and you don't.
  1. mmoc54c5b015b2's Avatar
    Daaaayum, that number of subscribers.
  1. Osmeric's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Chickat View Post
    Not at all. Cata sold the same number in 24 hours with 12m subs. It actually shows that while players in the east are dropping, players in the west are either staying the same or growing slightly.
    Which is good news, since a western "sub" is worth many times an eastern "sub". IIRC, the ARPU to Blizzard from China is a few dollars a month.
  1. TCceen's Avatar
    I only play games based on how many other people play them! I refuse to waste my time on something that the majority of people don't play because I want to be considered cool! Only!

    Yeah umm... I don't care who plays what or how many play what, if my partner and my friends play a game (that I happen to enjoy myself) you bet I'll play it. In the last 10 years I only took a break once for 3 months to play Wildstar, but yes those sub numbers have 0 effect on me, my partner or my friends gameplay... Not to mention most of those with the expansion are barely even 100 yet they don't even effect QUEUE times yet!
  1. Chickat's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Pann View Post
    It doesn't show anything of the sort. All we can discern is that is that Chinese and Western players that have not bought WOD outnumber the Western players that have bought it.

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    Really? Just last night garrisons were bugged once again, I was not able to log on to main for about three hours, and instance servers were hit and miss.
    Chinese players dont buy expansions. It shows exactly what I said. There are more western players playing or the same amount as in Cata seen by the copies of WoD sold.
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