Rising_Hei
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You'll never get subscribers numbers from SE because they would (wrongly so) look pathetic to the public.
You can blame WoW for that
They don't share it because they don't want to show comparisions from previous months and how the game is actually faring for real. The data they give is not interesting to me, just the only propaganda they can give to manipulate their shareholders.
I bet it was pretty healthy on its first year and that it has been in declive since. People don't like transparency when there are things to hide... and their "follow the carrot" strategies to keep players attached have been getting worse over time. My opinion has always been that this only survives and gets praises because of the current state of the MMO market.