While not a huge hit, it does show in which direction the subs will be going between now and the next expansion.
Well done blizzard!9.6 milion for a 8 year old game = WINNING! CHARLIE SHEEN STYLE!
there will NEVER be an mmo with more than 5 million players besides wow atleast in the next 10 years, why? because wow was a freak success not the norm.
blizzard took everquest made it alot easier and more casual and slapped some warcraft lore on it and somehow managed to take a genre that only had about 500k people interested in it and made it mainstream.
i bet if you went back in time and told chris metzen one day wow would have a million subscribers he would laugh in your face and say i wish man
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Reading your other posts in this news post, get the fuck out if you're so biased. 5 years ago would be during Burning Crusade. Everyone who has left wow during MoP didn't start in wotlk or cata, lots of vanilla and BC players have taken their leave too, you know.
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And why does someone always bring another MMO into the discussion? It has abso-fucking-lutely nothing to do with the amount of WoW subscribers.
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I am honestly going to laugh at this idea. I'll admit to being a Cata baby-but I'm not going anywhere either. Not all new players are bad or mind a bit of a grind to this game. This idea that new players = bad is a bit insulting imo. I know quite a few people (myself included) that have ranked in WoL in the top 50 on current encounters and they have been playing the game for less than 2 years. If anything I see older players leaving.
since wow is dead with only 9.6 million subs... i think im gonna quit as well, you guys all should too... poor dead game.
I guess I should reword it to "Improbable" to sate the trolls.
What other things from 2004 are you still doing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_in_video_gaming
Are you still playing Doom 3, or Pikmin 2, by chance? Perhaps JFK: Reloaded.
I'm willing to bet that the entire calendar year of 2004's videogame releases, excluding World of Warcraft, has sub 250,000 people playing their games. And WoW still has 9.6 Million.
Blizzard has earned [Doing the Improbable]
Losing ~5% of your market is a big deal. I dread to think what it will drop too before the next expansion.
All that matters is how much money Blizzard made this past quarter. It's up....end of thread.
"I was a normal baby for 30 seconds, then ninjas stole my mamma" - Deadpool
"so what do we do?" "well jack, you stand there and say 'gee rocket raccoon I'm so glad you brought that Unfeasibly large cannon with you..' and i go like this BRAKKA BRAKKA BRAKKA" - Rocket Raccoon
FC: 3437-3046-3552