WoW Down to 7.6 Million Subscribers

[Deleted]

Most certainly impressive, Blizzard just might be able to turn it around at this point.

[Celista]

Wow, a lot less than I anticipated. That's great

[Arbs]

I'm guessing the next closest MMO has < 2 million subscribers? Still doing very well then.

I think the closest MMO is FF14 with 600k & EvE has 500k, some corrected me in another thread for FF14.

[Awe]

Lower than I expected. Well done, Blizzard.

Think it's just because of the loss rate bottoming out, or because of changes to the game?

SoO plays a big part. I was even considering checking it out but I resigned becouse I dont have time to play more than 1 MMO at the same time (playing smth else atm). Still, I am sure many people did resub for SoO.

[Joeygiggles]

Thats pretty damn impressive the way the subs have been dropping as of late. Blizzcon of course right here so lets see some bold moves from Blizzard

[Mychelle]

Not very surprising being the end of an expansion and all. People would rather close their subs and wait till the next expansion, thats all.

[Ph0tek]

75% of these are probably accounts they banned.

[Tython]

Probably lose more soon between expansions and because LFR is broken...

[Pancaspe]

Dear Haters,

This game is almost 10 years old, and has a good 20 years left. Time to give it up unless you really want to jump up and down in 2034 when it does finally die.

30 years is a long time to hate dude.

[MoanaLisa]

Better than expected really. People come back for final expansion raids apparently.

[Awe]

75% of these are probably accounts they banned.

No. Sub loss/gain is a balance between unsubcribers and resubscribers/new players. So for random example they could loose 900.000 accounts but gain 800.000.

[bearnakked]

Still close to 1.4 Billion just on subs alone a year. I do not have a sub to the game, i just buy game cards so we have to include that revenue, and lets add the money they make for in game pets/mounts/transfers/faction changes. They're still rolling in the money, and yes the next expansion will bring quite a few people back, but hopefully blizzard makes that more appealing to keep people interested for more than a few months. Like mop i expect them to create another 12 month deal where you get d3's expansion or the next wow expansion for free, i'm sure they'll drop that on us this weekend.

[Deleted]

would i be wrong when i said that lfr separate wing releases worked out great to keep most gamers in game + timeless isle being kinda fun :>?

[Gelda82]

100K subscriptions lost? Sounds like the entire subscription base of SW:TOR, lol. At least the website is running this story BEFORE Blizzcon, so it's not misinterpreted by haters as "Ooooh, the expansion sounded so bad it made thousands quit."

[Huntaer]

Brace yourselves "wow is going to die" topics are coming!

[Bubblykiss]

I thought it would be worse. Looks like the population is starting to stabilize.

[Druidjezus]

I think the slowing of losses has to do with a combo of Timeless Isles being very alt friendly, Flex giving casual players who are tired of LFR something to do, and the hope that connected realms will revitalize dying servers.

[silverspring]

I quit wow 4 month ago still following mmo-champion/wow.If new models or something excited will happen next expansion ill consider to come back.

[Vongimi]

Still close to 1.4 Billion just on subs alone a year. I do not have a sub to the game, i just buy game cards so we have to include that revenue, and lets add the money they make for in game pets/mounts/transfers/faction changes. They're still rolling in the money, and yes the next expansion will bring quite a few people back, but hopefully blizzard makes that more appealing to keep people interested for more than a few months. Like mop i expect them to create another 12 month deal where you get d3's expansion or the next wow expansion for free, i'm sure they'll drop that on us this weekend.

Pretty sure game card users are still counted as subscribers

[Enan1981]

Regardless of what people claim to say, of course they still cling around to see what is still going on in the game. Dawon is right, a lot of us had memories playing WoW. We want to see how it evolves and change, some like it some dont. I just dont like the big gap and lack of updates between the last patch and the expansion. If theyll target for another Oct-Dec release next year, /smh