I don't always hunt things, But when I do, It's because they're things & I'm a Bear.
I am not personally insulted, but I just took your anecdote of your guild of ... 800 ... people (sic) that was dissolved and most members going away. So it is quite clear that taking this example, one could argue WOW now has 100K subs. Why limit yourself to a wet thumb guess ?
http://www.warcraftrealms.com/weekly...hp?serverid=-1
Is the above correct ? No one knows.
People do gotta take into account that the numbers presented today are the numbers until December 31st 2012 anything beyond that date wont be shown until May 2013 not only these but those numbers could be outdated already.
Christmas, don't forget that is very powerful tool in business & the market.
Last edited by Arbs; 2013-02-07 at 06:10 PM.
I don't always hunt things, But when I do, It's because they're things & I'm a Bear.
Oh yeah this was Q4. I'll change my prediction to -300k.
Although if it's true that they gave free battle chest + 30 days for D3 players it will be a increase.
What you wrote is just poppycocks because CRZ itself is just ducttape; nothing serious. "New tech" isn't magick. They can easily enable x-realm arena and raid, but we both know why that isn't happening. Plus you can't really do AH-CRZ that dynamically like you can with CRZ, and at the moment you enable that you'll affect all economies so that isn't something you want to fool around with.
There's a much easier solution: allow X (I suggest X = 1) amount of FCM a month. Want more? Likely a AH goblin therefore: pay up. It allows players to migrate away from low pop if they prefer, and it also allows high pop servers to move to a low pop server should they prefer that.
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No I'm just letting people know & so they don't get there hopes up on either side of the fence. But it is true when Quarterly numbers come out those numbers are already outdated by the current that we will not see until May 2013.
In other words, I'm getting letting the fox know that getting to the chickens isn't a easy task.
Last edited by Arbs; 2013-02-07 at 06:25 PM.
I don't always hunt things, But when I do, It's because they're things & I'm a Bear.
While MoP is a better expansion story and gameplay wise. It still has a lot of faults that have hurt it. The endless wall of dailies for example and the gating the main story behind them in 5.1, probably didn't help the subscription numbers. The overall hatred of CRZ and Blizzard's response to it, even going so far as to stomp out feedback threads on CRZ, probably is hurting them the most out of all the issues. So my guess is the subs will be around 8.5M-9M. Especially since many of the people who were giving feedback on CRZ did cancel their accounts, many of which had more than 1 account.
CRZ though needs a lot more work before it can even be considered finished. The two seater mounts must work again, and not dismount the passengers when crossing borders for it to be considered working. The screen freezes, flashing of the character when crossing the border must be stopped permanently to be considered working. People should be able to report and ignore cross realm griefers and not get "That character does not exist" errors. Until these game breaking problems with CRZ is fixed, it's not feasible to expand upon it unless the expanding fixes them problems. Till they are fixed, CRZ is a broken feature that should never of been released to begin with.
Oh I have taken that into account. People started quitting over CRZ around october and november. Same with the dailies. So I am still keeping my estimate around 8.5M-9M subs. I'd be surprised if it is lower. Either way I think this will force Blizzard to change their ideology. Or at least I hope it does.