Earnings call August 4

[Forgon]

Holy shit. Has there EVER been a quarter with a major patch in it with a drop, especially one that big? I never would have guessed that.

Ya, me neither. This is horrendous.

[ro9ue]

10m to 5.6m in two quarters..... lol

[Bindanda]

How? I thought the call didn't even start yet, how are they getting numbers already?

its posted on yahoo or someting

EDIT: here

[Deleted]

The drop seems consistent with the last expansions, it's been going down a fairly straight line except for the WoD release spike.

[Lolsteak]

Ouch I was expecting a drop but thought the token would act as a buffer, that's a rather large decrease though.

[The Cheat]

Shows what happens when the only good content you develop in an expansion revolves around a feature that less than 35% of the player base is interested in participating in.

[Thage]

Rather surprised at that big a loss

I'm not. There's no longevity in this expansion if you don't raid and get bored of clicking through menus. I'm surprised it was only a mil and a half, but Q3's going to be a horror show if they can't get the hype train rolling hard day after tomorrow.

[Hoofnmouth]

Well it is official shut down the servers there is no money in a measly 5.6 million subs. /end sarcasm

[Deleted]

Wow. 5.6 million. More losses than I expected. That's why they're announcing the expansion at Gamescom.

[Deleted]

Heelvsbabyface Video incoming. Lot's of swearing i'd say lol

[Raven]

Wow they literally had a 50% drop from the WoD starting numbers. G fucking G.

And it took them 10 years, kinda impressing since other games have that loss their first year.

[ro9ue]

Which is why there will be an annual pass with the announcement to stabilize the sub numbers

I did the Annual Pass last time and will never, ever do it again.

Basically it was a year of no content.

[TheFreeman]

A drop of 1.5 million subs?? Holy shit I never expected it to be that much

Cyclical.

Not really in my opinion but I just thought I'd throw that out there since the devs did so easily last numbers report.

[Thage]

10m to 5.6m in two quarters..... lol

Yeah. Jesus Christ how do you shed half your player base in half a friggin' year?

[dd614]

Looks like 6.2 did nothing and everything Blizzard has done has completely failed. Time for a total change in direction. Get back to what worked.

[Iflash]

Wow, did not expect it to be that big of a drop. I expected 1 mil TOPS, and that was without 6.2 bringing some people back.

Holy crap. If we get nothing for a year this game is dead.

Now I'm kinda worried.

[Arrashi]

Holy shit that is gonna hurt. Then again im not suprised.

Also, on topic of token, the thing is that rather than bringing alot of players who were unsubbed, it just made subbed players unsub and buy token instead.

[Deleted]

Expected. Not really worried though.

WoW subs are still nearly 7x above break even point.

Next expansion will make or break the future though.

[Gsara]

Subs for wow are down 1.5m and the earnings are up overall.

[dd614]

Yeah. Jesus Christ how do you shed half your player base in half a friggin' year?

Cutting your subscription base in half in just 6 months. #justwarlordsthings