WoW Down to 7.6 Million Subscribers

[The Yeti]

Small loss right before an expansion is released? Not a huge shock.

[Zka]

What the hell are these 7.6M people doing? Content is old and irrelevant.

[Sodia]

I think that Blizz cant ignore 25% fall of subscribers or can they?

Sad, sad Panda

hmmm 200k from 7.6 mil is not 25% no mether how you look at it

[Collected]

7.6 million subs at arguably the quietest point in the game in terms of content and subs.. Blizzard will take that any day. They always said the gap between expansions sees a leak of subscribers.. losing a couple of hundred thousand is a good result for them.

[Marema]

I think that Blizz cant ignore 25% fall of subscribers or can they?

Sad, sad Panda

Going from 7,8 to 7,6 is a ~2.5% drop.

[Skalm]

Just a small drop of subs. I guess the boost to 90 served its purpose well.

I would say that definitely played a part in it. I think that also, what really played a large role in this 'minimal' sub loss is the fact that so many people expected WoD to drop a lot sooner than it is going to. This caused many people to either re-sub or pre-pay more time to their accounts. This would also give a boost to their number of subscribers.

I would like to see an actual graph showing how many are pre-paid time, active sub, in-active subs with time remaining, etc....

[Deleted]

Q4 2013....so a loss just as SoO came out.

I'd bet my nutsack on there being way less than 7m subs now.

[deadman1]

Not bad at all, I expected more. Grats Blizz, keep it up.

[Farora]

When 0 people are actually playing Wow the PR number will be around 4 million subscriptions I bet.

[mistahwilshire]

WoW losing 2 000 subs per day with Wod pre-order active.

"cough"

lol this is a hilariously petty little attempt to try and make a 200k loss quarter (completely negligible and tiny) seem worse than it is. You are such a sad little person.

[Deleted]

Small loss right before an expansion is released? Not a huge shock.

HAHAHAHAHA......he said.........he said.....RIGHT BEFORE AN EXPANSION.......right before.....HAHAHAAHAHHA


Man that joke was brilliant. But you do realize the expansion is a long way off right? You also realize that a lot more people will unsub right?

[deadman1]

I think that Blizz cant ignore 25% fall of subscribers or can they?

Sad, sad Panda

25%? WHAT? More like 2.6%

[thoruga]

I wouldn't call 200k a loss really it might be monthly fluctuation of sub numbers anyway. So it seems game has stabilized at those numbers. There will probably be more loss until the next expansion but after these number I expect numbers will go well over 8m for a while when next expansion is released.

[oathy]

Was expecting nearer 6.8 Million that loss no wonder they are pleased.

[Deleted]

Am I right that it has been a loss of 100k in a year?

That is actually quite stable.

I expected it to be far more tbh.

I wonder if they can get 6.0 out before end of June? (Very doubtful I know)

[Deleted]

Wow will be down at least a million more in the next quarter as so many people are already bored with SoO and plan to quit and may be come back a few weeks before the new expansion.

[Geckomayhem]

I'm surprised at how few people have left over that time. I'd say a fair number of people have already come back for WoD, it's just that more have got bored with content than have come back already. Chances are we will see an influx of players - albeit a small return - closer to the expansion's release.

[Renchard]

5.4 must have done something right.

Maybe, just maybe, gearing up through exploratory, cooperative, open world content with no flying will work out.

[Azrile]

We live to fight another day.

A bigger dip in Q2 perhaps, but that can be ridden out on our glorious march to expansion.

next quarter will be about the same. Remember, the snapshot will be taken on June 30th, which means beta will be in full swing and 6.0 will be right around the corner. Players come back for the .0 patch before the actual expansion.

Also, people need to remember that ´we´ are not the average player. Because of the availability of Flex, the average player is now making progress into the real SoO. I am the GM of one of those 1k ´everyone´ guilds and we still have groups of players killing different aspects of SoO flex every week. People on the forums are hardcore, and don´t realize how huge of a difference Flex makes to giving normal players content at the end of an expansion... it is a bit difference to the 10 months without content we saw in Cata.

[Soulzar]

People who get so emotional about some aspect of the game that they threaten to quit.... lolol