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. Salech's Avatar
    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!
  1. mmoc61984b929c's Avatar
    Marketing team did a good job.

    In a year we'll see if the content is good enough to hold the subs. Aside from never having to leave your garrison, the game feels exactly like Cataclysm to me. If it's just that wind mechanic on every boss on the first raid, it's all ogre for me. Hope it'll be good.
  1. mmocddf97bf822's Avatar
    just as people thought wow was dying ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
  1. Tatakau's Avatar
    I wonder if they will go down the FFXI route and let you all fanboys marry each other ingame.
  1. Zoaric's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by alltheydoisdance View Post
    its still less than half the players League of Legends has, no reason to get excited ladies
    Shocking: the sub based game has fewer subs than the free game has players.
  1. Doctor Funkenstein's Avatar
    So there's something around 6.7 million subscribers who don't have and aren't playing Warlords of Draenor (since they say they've only sold 3.3 million copies of the expansion)?

    Also, I like how they set the date of the report on November 13th, not a few days after when people ended their subscriptions out of frustration.
  1. Salech's Avatar
    Only problem is now we are getting even more wide nights defending all the bad decisions blizzard will make.

    Fetterlein, people saying WoW is dying is stupid, however it is a shit game since cata, mop and now WoD. the good thing is they got the facebook people to play, you know the garrison and pet battles and shit.
  1. Pann's Avatar
    It is truly depressing that some players think that this is a cause for celebration when, still, a week on, the game is less than fully playable.
  1. Dch48'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
    Everything is working perfectly
  1. mmocef2fdcc82b's Avatar
    Expected a jump, but that's huge.

    It's really impressive, 10years old yet still can attract that many players, obviously there's always a big jump at the start of expansions and then they slowly decline again, but still impressive
  1. Zoaric's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by The Jabberwock View Post
    So there's something around 6.7 million subscribers who don't have and aren't playing Warlords of Draenor (since they say they've only sold 3.3 million copies of the expansion)?

    Also, I like how they set the date of the report on November 13th, not a few days after when people ended their subscriptions out of frustration.
    Asia doesn't buy the new expansion though, do they?
  1. Zandalarian Paladin's Avatar
    For those who say that it'll go downhill in three months... Look at the numbers again. Never in the history of wow has such a curve happened. This is happening for real: Wow is back.

    EDIT: And I can't wait to see what asia will do with the amount of subscribers.
  1. mmoc1dc6da2fe2's Avatar
    Bloody hell
  1. Msi'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!
    BOHOOO how do you know WOD is already shit? please go troll somewhere else
  1. atrixx's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by tiporispit View Post
    Umm... so, they have 7 million subscribers... they sell 3 million copies of WoD and they suddenly have 10 million subscribers. That means one of two things.

    A. None of the current 7 million subscribers bought WoD.
    B. Current subscribers upgraded and 3 million people returned to play MoP.

    Think about it. I'm calling bullshit.
    If I were you, I would call the SEC then. Since they are a publicly traded company - it is kinda illegal to cook the books.
  1. Jervaise's Avatar
    Well, it feels really good to play WoW as a game it originally was made to be. Good-bye pandas, hope to never encounter you again. As a vanilla player who played all expansions, WOD for me competes with TBC in the list of best expansions. MOP was just a blasphemy, an abomination.
  1. mmoc19ee780deb'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!
    That free week of game play was from the previous quarter. Which ended in September. Try harder next time.
  1. mmocc02219cc8b's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Salech View Post
    however it is a shit game since cata, mop and now WoD. the good thing is they got the facebook people to play, you know the garrison and pet battles and shit.
    Yeah, yeah. We got it. You don't like the game.
  1. mmoc54799bad35's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Salech View Post
    Only problem is now we are getting even more wide nights defending all the bad decisions blizzard will make.

    Fetterlein, people saying WoW is dying is stupid, however it is a shit game since cata, mop and now WoD. the good thing is they got the facebook people to play, you know the garrison and pet battles and shit.
    Those damn wide nights... always eating in the dark
  1. mmoc19ee780deb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Grym View Post
    Just wondering though.

    "Warlords of Draenor has sold over 3.3 million copies so far"

    So the other 6.7million players are not playing WoD?
    Most people don't adapt easily, check the mop, cataclysm and wrath initial sales on first day of launch, they are generally in the 3-4 million area aswell.
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