WoW Up to 10 Million Subscribers, Garrison Campaign Quests Active, Nov 19 Hotfixes

[SteveRocks]

Well done Blizz. I haven't bought the expansion yet as I'm waiting for servers to stabilize. And I do wonder why all those haters are still here, are you really that sad about Wow gaining popularity again?
To all those haters/ex-Wow players, let it go, you don't like Wow anymore, there are other games for you but no need to rain on Blizz' parade. It's an awesome accomplishment and if you can't handle that, you need to get your priorities straight.

If you're waiting for realm stability-wait no longer! lol I play on one of the most populated realms and the last couple nights I've only had to wait 10-15minutes to get in. There is no wait if I want to log in during non-peak hours.

[Aqua]

I...wh...WHAT?

[shanthi]

there is literally less than 10 people on my server in wod, no matter where i go

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man people must love paying for no content in this genre!

You mean like yourself?

[Rorschachs]

No. That includes Asia, lol. Calm down. Their numbers have always included Asia.

The expansion didn't launch in asia yet though. So the 2.6 mil increase is most likely only from europe and na.

[ringpriest]

So like.. thats a big number for a 10 year old game. I think we can safely say WoW is NOT dead.

While I've been critical about Blizz and cynical about WoW, I will agree that this shows WoW is, indeed, not dead. There's obviously still a big pool of potential customers. Which, in turn, means that when subs do drop, it is not because of some "natural product cycle" or anything like that, but because Blizz has made choices with the game that people disliked.

[Beat5beat]

I wonder if increasing WoW subs has anything to do with a struggling job market and depressed wages.

[Sills]

We all expected a boost for an expansion but I don't think anyone could have predicted this. Wow!

[Gaebryel Quintyne]

If you're waiting for realm stability-wait no longer! lol I play on one of the most populated realms and the last couple nights I've only had to wait 10-15minutes to get in. There is no wait if I want to log in during non-peak hours.

I can totally vouch for that. If anyone is on the fence of buying WoD, you should not be. Actually, just check the realm status on the official site for the region you play on. Majority of them are medium and when they are full or high, they don't have Qs anymore. If they do have Qs, it's small due to the new instancing technology they are using to make multiple copies of the server to increase server capacity.

Here's link to the US WoW website realm status:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/status

Here's link to the EU WoW website realm status:
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/status

[Kuja]

Nice increase! I predicted it would be closer to 9 mil.

[Deleted]

Extremely surprising number. At least the number of utter morons posting the product lifecycle curve will go down.

[Rudypoo]

That seems about right. Each new expansion brings back a substantial amount of people -- curious people that want to see how the change affects the overall game.

The test is going to be the same as always, though: KEEPING those subs.

My hope is, Blizzard is proactive this time. They dropped the ball with Pandaria, especially where content was concerned. That cannot happen this time if they want to keep these subs anywhere near the 10 million mark.

[Heaterz 88]

Contrary to what some people are saying ,these numbers actually might keep growing as raid tiers start to hit and word gets out that the hype was real.

[Peso]

Looks like MoP was a fail already compared to WoD.

[Explicit Teemo Nudes]

So about 4 million players still don't have WoD? :P

[Lady Dragonheart]

Extremely surprising number. At least the number of utter morons posting the product lifecycle curve will go down.

There will still, unfortunately, forever be negative naysayers and loser people trying to bum others down with their bad attitudes...

[Deleted]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsqJFIJ5lLs

WoD has been the best expansion so far, for me, at least. And i played since Vanilla.

[Zoaric]

So about 4 million players still don't have WoD? :P

Asia doesn't buy expansions.

[Vishy]

JUST SAYING.

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Yo, someone shrink that down for me lmao

[Aerofluff]

Well done Blizz. I haven't bought the expansion yet as I'm waiting for servers to stabilize.

The servers are pretty much stable now, haven't had a queue or crash in days. I've also still got a few friends who hadn't re-subbed yet, but now that WoD's out and they can see more of it, I'm pretty sure they'll bite the bullet. Which means that number can still increase even more.

Anyway... Good riddance to the pandas, and this graph pretty much proves that not many people liked MoP as much as its defenders claim. Sadly, I'll still have to see them, Monks and cloud serpents on occasion, but at least they're not very prevalent.

I always hailed WotLK as the best expac ever... But honestly, WoD might actually surpass that. I'm very impressed.

[Dragonshardz]

WOTLK had the largest player base what a shocker. Also, WoD doing kinda great. Man, am I tempted to return or what.