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
445 Comments
Comments 442 Comments
  1. Nocturnes's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Zokten View Post
    Off the top of my head, RO.

    I remember the days in Medal of Honor multiplayer where there were 30 players....i was like, WOOOWW, i can play with 29 people together on 1 map...through the internet...

    Now people moan that World of Warcraft not has 10million players but 9.999.999 players.

    Go figure...what is it to us? Do we rly need the confirmation of numbers to enjoy the game?

    Guess so....we are so shortsighted.
  1. Condemner's Avatar
    Holy crap, I expected a gain in subs, but 10 mil... Well done Blizzard!
  1. Bakis's Avatar
    ehrm missread>10c
  1. Condemner's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Nullpointer View Post
    This just says how bad Pandaland was. Obviously people were just waiting to return to a true WoW and not that happy panda abomination.
    Except it doesn't. Yes there a bigger gain in subs, but the grand total is the same as at the start of MoP. I do however believe that more people got excited cause of the warcraft vibe of this expansion.

    Something I don't really get: Does 3,3 mil sold copies mean there are 6.7 mil playing an outdated game?
  1. Geodew's Avatar
    I don't know why everyone's going crazy over this; the graph clearly shows that it's the same amount of subs they had at the beginning of MoP too. "Resub to try the new expansion" is nothing new. I have a friend who does it every time lol. All it means is that not much has changed since MoP. Now if subs went up some more instead of down like usual since Cata, THAT would be interesting for breaking the pattern.
  1. scvd's Avatar
    75% of WOD sales are new subs? Ok.
  1. fixx's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Geodew View Post
    I don't know why everyone's going crazy over this; the graph clearly shows that...
    Peak at the WoD start is 200% bigger than the peak at MoP start. That is a big thing.
  1. mmocbeba583bd0's Avatar
    Number of subscriptions is 3 times larger than number of WoD sales. Sounds very fishy. People playing right now without WoD are rare exceptions.
    Quote Originally Posted by scvd View Post
    75% of WOD sales are new subs? Ok.
    And this.

    Numbers just don't add up. Ether they report false numbers or we are missing something?
  1. Farseer's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Geodew View Post
    I don't know why everyone's going crazy over this; the graph clearly shows that it's the same amount of subs they had at the beginning of MoP too. "Resub to try the new expansion" is nothing new. I have a friend who does it every time lol. All it means is that not much has changed since MoP. Now if subs went up some more instead of down like usual since Cata, THAT would be interesting for breaking the pattern.
    Have to disagree. A small sub boost for a new expansion is nothing new, but a 2.6 million boost is something else entirely.

    Edit: also, maybe we are overlooking something? I'm assuming the 10 million subscribers is worlwide, but as of 13 November WoD wasn't out yet in Asia, so perhaps that's why there are still so many subscribers without WoD?
  1. ttak82's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by chaud View Post
    Players in Asia don't have to buy expansions IIRC.
    You mean to say players on mainland china based accounts?

    Many players in Asia also play on EU/US realms. So they have to buy the expansions and Subscribe. (Including myself). Are you counting those player accounts as EU/NA accounts effectively?
  1. mmocf93185380c's Avatar
    Overpwn, lol.
  1. mmoc75ce1a8d3d's Avatar
    Damn. Really? Damn.
  1. Goondicker's Avatar
    HAHA! Oh man... someone dig up all the old cynical sub posts and shame them for me please.

    Great news for WoW. That explains the shaky launch as well. If by the grace of Thrall there's not a decrease by next quarter, the mmo genre might be saved.
  1. Queen of Hamsters's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Nullpointer View Post
    This just says how bad Pandaland was. Obviously people were just waiting to return to a true WoW and not that happy panda abomination.
    "Happy panda abomination"...spoken by someone that was too shallow to actually experience the expansion? Because as someone playing through it all, it sure as hell was no "happy pandaland".

    But then again, people choose to be ignorant and stupid about more important topics.
  1. DrakeWurrum's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Slirith View Post
    it'll drop by 3mil in 6 months. Expansions always bring back subscribers.
    While I agree with you, you must admit that this spike is significantly larger than Cata or MoP had. Hell, didn't Cata actually bring a drop?
  1. Lusitan's Avatar
    Lol Blizzard is very clever with their PR machine.

    First a few days ago they release the following:

    Since the launch of Warlords of Draenor we’ve seen a large amount of positive reaction to the new content available in the expansion.
    Clearly, they based this view on the number of copies sold, the 3.3million.

    Today they come once again with PR bullshit saying that the subscribers are up to 10million at the day of the launch, 2.5 months earlier than the next Quarter Submission. just to tell the "ignorant" that this expansion as been a overwhelm success, lets see how many of those 10m actually stay by the end of the december, when the Finalcial quarter closes before releasing the fireworks.
  1. Mormolyce's Avatar
    Well hot diggity damn. I wonder how long that peak will last.
  1. mmocf89c8b0f36's Avatar
    Meh, it doesn't really say anything. We should wait for 2015' Q1 numbers. If they remain high, gz to Blizzard but I'll be dissapointed by players' gaming expectations.
  1. McNeil's Avatar
    I'm actually suprised, thats quite a lot more than what MoP brought back (900k vs 3.4 million). I guess one of the biggest reasons is the free 90 boost, I know a lot of people who wouldn't even bother with the game if they haven't one. Now the question is if WoD will keep that 10 million subs.
  1. DesoPL's Avatar
    Mark my words... This is only temponary...
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