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World of Warcraft is down to 6.8 million subs; Blizzard on the verge of sleet
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nephilimdj
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Well they were cleaver with the Diablo 3 deal, everyone subscribed for 1 year
They should of atleast given access to Heroes of the storm by preordering Warlords of Draenor
They should of atleast given access to Heroes of the storm by preordering Warlords of Draenor
ReturnOfTheRAT
Member
Poor Blizzard. They're failing to captivate a new audience. The bleeding continues.
Megalosaro
Banned
Are my numbers right? That's 81m a Blizzard is making. How much is monthly upkeep?
Jimmyfenix
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SuperEpicGuy
Banned
Who the hell pays 12/month on a game that you don't play?
fluffydelusions
Member
Like always, will resub for the new xpac
bengraven
Member
I was never an end gamer, I just like to explore and level and am a total Altitis casual player, but I still put in something like the 10s of thousands of hours and I really really loved the game
I've never raided in 10 years and I rarely sub these days, but I miss it quite a bit just for the social aspects of being like "let's go level some alts at 2 in the morning while drunk".
I've never raided in 10 years and I rarely sub these days, but I miss it quite a bit just for the social aspects of being like "let's go level some alts at 2 in the morning while drunk".
Shmuely Bully
Member
Hmmm..."disproportionately concentrated in the East". What happened during Q2 2014?
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
Active players in F2P MMO games undoubtedly dwarf the bejesus out of WoW.
LumpOfCole
Member
They're still making over $100 million every single month from subscriptions alone. Jesus lawd.
nephilimdj
Member
Im sure there is a large %, its like gym memberships
Stuggernaut
Grandma's Chippy
I have been so close to re-subbing lately (quit last year... I think) but have resisted all urges.
I used to enjoy my WoW down time.
Still... if my old guild started playing again the temptation would be god damned high!
I used to enjoy my WoW down time.
Still... if my old guild started playing again the temptation would be god damned high!
Investors surely must know the success cannot continue forever. At some point they have to expect cash flows to decrease. It's why Blizzard is developing a new MMO despite the cannibalization it will suffer.
And that end is still pretty far off.
I wonder what the minimum number of subscribers would be required to break even.
No they're not. We've been through this before.
Titan is a long way off. MOP lost WoW 3m subscribers (despite being the most casual/solo friendly expansion they've made), they have to stop haemorrhaging subscribers now and that likely means pursuing a different business model (F2P). Investors won't be happy if Blizzard let WoW fade into obscurity without trying something new to stop players leaving and ideally bring lapsed ones back. There's a lot of money still to be made in server transfers, expansion sales, level 90 boosts and mounts/pets.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
I'm confused, wasn't Titan cancelled? Or it was just back to the drawing board?
Way too long between content, of course subs are gonna slide...MoP has been a great ride and I'll miss it, but ToT was too early and the lack of content between SoO and now has been pretty awful.
Used the gap time to go fill in gaps in stuff I never completed, ready for WoD any day now
Used the gap time to go fill in gaps in stuff I never completed, ready for WoD any day now
demosthenes
Member
Pretty good?
The thing is still printing money. It just went from 100,000bph to 90,000bph.
They restarted development, it's no longer subscription based and most of the people who were working on it are now working on other games (including WoW). Not much else is known.
Andodalf
Banned
As I understand it titan is back to the drawing board again. I think it's been made a couple times now.
Tritroid
Member
I don't understand this logic. How? It's like apples and oranges.
Surprisingly I'm more interested in Warlords than I have been in WoW for a long time.
I've kept an eye on the mechanical changes they're making and a lot of them are appealing to me.
Moreover, despite the terminally stupid and incomprehensible storyline, Warlords looks to be a return to some very classic feeling content, not least because it's BC redux.
Cataclysm was miserable, and I didn't check out MoP until it'd already been out a year. To my surprise, they'd made a lot of nice QoL changes, but it did and does still blow my mind that they made an entire expansion around a joke concept.
Whether Warlords will have any impact on WoWs downward subscriber trend, I couldn't say. My friends and I have never subbed for more than a few months after each launch, so we're not really part of their long term numbers in any case
(sub fees keep me away from wow and sadly keep me away from ff14 which I'm more interested in at this point)
I've kept an eye on the mechanical changes they're making and a lot of them are appealing to me.
Moreover, despite the terminally stupid and incomprehensible storyline, Warlords looks to be a return to some very classic feeling content, not least because it's BC redux.
Cataclysm was miserable, and I didn't check out MoP until it'd already been out a year. To my surprise, they'd made a lot of nice QoL changes, but it did and does still blow my mind that they made an entire expansion around a joke concept.
Whether Warlords will have any impact on WoWs downward subscriber trend, I couldn't say. My friends and I have never subbed for more than a few months after each launch, so we're not really part of their long term numbers in any case
(sub fees keep me away from wow and sadly keep me away from ff14 which I'm more interested in at this point)
Surprisingly I'm more interested in Warlords than I have been in WoW for a long time.
I've kept an eye on the mechanical changes they're making and a lot of them are appealing to me.
Moreover, despite the terminally stupid and incomprehensible storyline, Warlords looks to be a return to some very classic feeling content, not least because it's BC redux.
Cataclysm was miserable, and I didn't check out MoP until it'd already been out a year. To my surprise, they'd made a lot of nice QoL changes, but it did and does still blow my mind that they made an entire expansion around a joke concept.
Whether Warlords will have any impact on WoWs downward subscriber trend, I couldn't say. My friends and I have never subbed for more than a few months after each launch, so we're not really part of their long term numbers in any case
(sub fees keep me away from wow and sadly keep me away from ff14 which I'm more interested in at this point)
MoP is infinitely better compared to Cataclysm. Many people just wrote it off because lol kung fu panda. It was a great departure from the typical big bad end of the world storylines from previous expansions and brought forth a lot of interesting new ideas.
hillsighed
Member
6.8 million is still a lot of subscribers.
Holler at me when it's down to a million.
Holler at me when it's down to a million.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Considering how old the game is, I would say they have retained their subs better than any other MMO.
Dawnbuster
Member
Brawler's Guild was the final thing I completed before my sub ran out in October of last year. Great feeling.
Logged back in for the free week they had last month just to fly around a bit and visit a few old friends. Sad that even after a year away, my gear ilevel from all the heroic mode raids still qualified me for the best oqueue pickup groups. WTB new content ffs.
Logged out with my main Orc standing in the starting zone in Durotar, felt like a nice ending point. I think I've broken the addiction.
Maybe all of them combined.
RoninChaos
Member
Isn't it going away in 6.0?
Nah. I think they're just gonna change up the bosses that are in there.
All the achievements you get for it now will be converted to Feats of Strength come WoD.
1st Course
Member
This is from some years ago
Asian MMO market is really huge. They are like 100 million MMO gamers in China alone.
eddievanclaylen
Member
I remember when ff-11 came out and they had something like 750k subs which was huge,(I played ff-11 for 2 years) but then wow came out and well, we all know what happened. I played WoW 24/7 for 6 years and I finally broke my addiction after cata came out and haven't looked back.
Ahhhhhhhh feels so good to be wow free. I also deleted my Facebook account. Talk about freeing the tendrils of the internet.
I have lots of great wow memories but I will never speak of them in public. People are right when they say that game is worse than crack ....
Edit: I've gone outside, found a career and a girlfriend!
Ahhhhhhhh feels so good to be wow free. I also deleted my Facebook account. Talk about freeing the tendrils of the internet.
I have lots of great wow memories but I will never speak of them in public. People are right when they say that game is worse than crack ....
Edit: I've gone outside, found a career and a girlfriend!
Art Vandilay
Member
I put a lot of time into WoW, and I'm ashamed to admit how much. It's a great game, don't get me wrong. Walking into IF on my first toon, a dwarf hunter, blew my mind and my computer was horrible.
Taking the tram to SW really blew my mind. Some guy gave me an obscure amount of gold for the time (early BC) and I was hooked. Seeing the insane amount of players in SW made me even more eager to level and see what it was all about.
Leveling and walking into the dark portal, flying, etc., it was all cool. But it eventually became stale. I'll probably buy the next expansion out of curiosity, but I doubt I'll sub for more than a few months. I haven't even played MoP in a few months, and even that was on and off.
WoW, like all things, shall pass.
Taking the tram to SW really blew my mind. Some guy gave me an obscure amount of gold for the time (early BC) and I was hooked. Seeing the insane amount of players in SW made me even more eager to level and see what it was all about.
Leveling and walking into the dark portal, flying, etc., it was all cool. But it eventually became stale. I'll probably buy the next expansion out of curiosity, but I doubt I'll sub for more than a few months. I haven't even played MoP in a few months, and even that was on and off.
WoW, like all things, shall pass.
meanspartan
Member
WoW is turning ten soon isn't it?
I'm pretty if you told Blizzard or anyone else a decade ago that in 2014 their about-to-release MMO would be "Down to" 6.8 million subscribers, they would be fucking thrilled.
WoW in it's decline has more subscriptions than any other subscription MMO, and more than several put together.
For me personally, my playtime peaked in Wrath and Cataclysm. Once I started law school, I just couldn't do it anymore, as much fun as tanking raids was. With Pandaria I bought it, played about a month to see all the new (non-raid) content, and then was done. I'll probably do the same for Warlords of Draenor.
Fantastic game and world, long live WoW.
I'm pretty if you told Blizzard or anyone else a decade ago that in 2014 their about-to-release MMO would be "Down to" 6.8 million subscribers, they would be fucking thrilled.
WoW in it's decline has more subscriptions than any other subscription MMO, and more than several put together.
For me personally, my playtime peaked in Wrath and Cataclysm. Once I started law school, I just couldn't do it anymore, as much fun as tanking raids was. With Pandaria I bought it, played about a month to see all the new (non-raid) content, and then was done. I'll probably do the same for Warlords of Draenor.
Fantastic game and world, long live WoW.
Saintguine
Member
It's not going anywhere but that's still a massive drop.
meanspartan
Member
Lol wut? Their ten year old game is still pulling in $15 a month from millions of people. By any standard, WoW is nothing less than a monumental success. I expect it to keep dropping until it gets down to maybe 2-3 million subs, and I think it will stay around there for as long as they want to keep it going for.
2-3 million steady subs being a huge success for any other MMO out there....
asthmagasm
Member
Assuming you mean Final Fantasy XI, it never broke 600k subs. SE was rather overjoyed to announce that the relaunch of XIV "broke through" 600k subs and pushed past Final Fantasy XI. Also depending on the region you want to count as it's launch (a year prior in Japan) it had a 2-3 jump on WoW and is still using a subscription model today as well. It's hard to find stats for the game outside of when then did their Vana'diel Census since it seemed almost completely ignored over here. I'm honestly surprised it's still alive, although I think they've fallen below 200k subs.
Fun Factor
Formerly FTWer
They'll never make a sequel will they?
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