I think that there is going to be a small decline is subscriber numbers. Although secretly in my heart I want to believe that WoW has gained subs since the last call.
EDIT: It was a decline after all, 9.6 million now.
I think that there is going to be a small decline is subscriber numbers. Although secretly in my heart I want to believe that WoW has gained subs since the last call.
EDIT: It was a decline after all, 9.6 million now.
Last edited by sykke; 2013-02-07 at 09:18 PM.
I hope theres no Sha of Anonymous Internet Douchery or else we are totally screwed.
The number of subscriptions have nothing to do with in game mechanics.
In the new world of MMORPG's where free to play is the standard, it is already a miracle WOW has all these subs, because the rest stands at 0.000.000 subs.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/activi...210500510.html
Looks like 9.6 mil is the official number. What was the official figure for last quarter again?
I found I enjoyed the game significantly more when I stopped paying attention to all the people on the forums telling me how much I am supposed to hate itAll this complaining is simply further proof that Blizzard could send each and every player a real-life wish-granting flying unicorn carrying a solid gold plate of chocolate chip cookies wrapped in hundred dollar bills, and someone would whine that Blizzard sucks for not letting them choose oatmeal raisin.
Really? It doesn'T? OKay well bring back the hard dungeons then. Anyone complains you aren't fucking forced to do them. Hell I wasn't forced to do them for raid either. I went into normal raiding with greens and blues from quests. Why is this defense so fucking common now? First of all it's extremely poor. Just because it's totally optional, doesn't mean it's not shitty and also HEAVILY INCENTIVIZED to compel you to do them. Second of all lot's of stuff is optional. Don't like PVP, well guess what it's optional. Pet battles, lfr, raiding, you NAME IT. Even your sub is. If you make content that people don't like, and then tell them they don't have to do it eventually they look around and ask what do I have left to do in this game? and furthermore as a developer why in the name of god would you want to make content, spend time and money and resources and then turn around and say don't do it guys. Obviously they want people to do fucking dailies, it's why the gear is there in the first place and it's why people feel compelled. Forum people just got hung up on the word forced.
Numbers are already in, they lost 400k last quarter.
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Well, i said 9.5 and it was 9.6, anyway, time for Blizzard to change some things.
Now that we know that the number has declined I foresee several people claiming that WoW is dying.
I on the other hand am enjoying the game more than ever before.
It's also not an improvement. It's stagnation no matter how you want to spin it. I'm resubbing for 5.2. I decided whenever they get around to releasing it ill buy a month. It lines up with reading week which is good and I cannot express how awesome it is that rep is back in dungeons and raids where it belongs. I'm not happy with their whole YOU HAVE TO DO THE OLD CONTENT mind set but I guess I can live with it. It's baby steps I guess.
You know so far I haven't seen many people insist that the sub loss means wow is dying. I have seen however quite a number of cheerleaders who are making caricatures though.
http://files.shareholder.com/downloa...ss_release.pdf
9.6 million
A loss like I said almost back to the pre Mop numbers I think the Free wow for D3 and X mas fluffed it in my opinion.
None the less over 10 million to 9.6 million is still a rather big lost