Activision Blizzard said:
Source: http://investor.activision.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=939963
Source: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/blizzard-will-no-longer-report-world-of-warcraft-s/1100-6431943/GameSpot said:
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World of Warcraft at 5.5 million subscribers, will no longer share numbers
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Corronchilejano
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Wasn't it at 7 million last year?
Enter the Dragon Punch
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Loss of 100,000 since last quarter. Bleeding has come to a stop thanks to the diehards, especially considering the last content release until the next expansion was released in June
texhnolyze
Banned
Not looking good.
yanipheonu
Member
It's a sad time for MMOs. Feels like things went stagnant and haven't really advanced so much.
As much as I hate SAO, VRMMOs need to be a thing. Someone please make that magic work.
As much as I hate SAO, VRMMOs need to be a thing. Someone please make that magic work.
Pop
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Enter the Dragon Punch
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can you even FATHOM 5.5 million people in a single, open field
that is a HUGE amount of people and over 5 times what the closest subscriber MMO, XIV, has
Brutalitops
Banned
Enter the Dragon Punch
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"Only" down 100k this time. WoD was a pretty poorly managed expansion in terms of release schedule and content. Considering the beta for Legion has not even started yet (maybe next week after Blizzcon,) the numbers will probably be pretty hairy next year leading into the expansion.
WOW. That latest expansion must be horrible. Maybe shift focus back onto Diablo 3?
1st Course
Member
I don't think we know for sure how many subs XIV have.
Even if the game is winding down somewhat, that is an insane run, especially when visualized like this.
It is horrible, you will be hard pressed to find a single person who likes it.
Since it's below Vanilla levels at this point, it does seem like it's on its way out. If trends are anything to go by...
Until they launch vanilla servers and I can hop back in and marvel at people with full Molten Core gear.
If we derive backwards from their revenue, unless there are extreme discount copies, Square Enix's total MMO userbase across all three games seems to be about 1 million.
Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
Here's the thing:
They lost "mass" market appeal with Mists of Pandaria, but managed to maintain a steady 7m+.
With Warlords, the nostalgia hype and marketing got people to come back. The leveling experience was amazing.
Then we all woke up and realized that the entire end-game was unfinished. It was just sitting in your garrisons. And that's all WoD EVER was. Even Tanaan was pretty crap.
WoD is essentially a filler expansion in terms of the content it had, but I have little faith in Legion being any better.
Under a million
Good riddance. The excuse the majority of these fees are used for content and server upkeep is a crock of shit. There was a 10 month period where the game never received content, expansions cost money, they nickel and dime for shit like name changes, race changes, pets, mounts, sex changes, server transfers etc. Server costs in 2015 have never being cheaper with virtualisation.
TatteredHat
Member
I was actually expecting it to drop lower than that, the difference between this and the Q2 announcement it isn't that large.
this pretty much prove that WoW peak doing the wrath of the lich king
Too much effort to make a whole world when they can make as much (or more) money with a card game or arena shooter
See: Tencent
Enter the Dragon Punch
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they're less an issue than ever thanks to the wow token
but i'm speaking of a few months ago, haven't been subbed since then
Yeah, it's like people think that if WoW goes below 5 million subscribers Blizzard will shut the game down forever.
You never see people say "If Everquest 2 drops below 150,000 subscribers then it will be all over, Terrors of Thalumbra better turn it around".
Seriously, no other MMO in the entire world even comes close in annual revenue.
So you telling me that they can make Warcraft 4 right? RIGHT?!?
Enter the Dragon Punch
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World of Warcraft makes upwards of $1,000,000,000 a year in subscription fees, box fees, and microtransactions from the store
It peaked during wrath but it didn't really grow the userbase like vanilla/TBC did
RichiRamjag
Member
They're going to nickel and dime you even more with the alternative. In regards to paid name changes, I remember many of us wanting it back in vanilla. I remember I had to call in 2004-05(?) and pretend I was an angry mother who's son used the name of a pornstar (bkaboom) so they'd change my stupid name. I was more than happy to pay for them at the when the option arose.
Flying Toaster
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All the doom and gloomers saying it's dead are funny. An old MMORPG still in go mode with 5.5 million active subscriptions. That is quite something.
Would you really want it with where the lore's gone?
You do realize that that 5.5M users represents something on the order of $300M in revenue every year, right? I can imagine Blizzard just waiting for the opportunity to drop that kind of disaster.
Enter the Dragon Punch
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Like... The game turns 11 years old this month. That's astounding. It's the longest a game has ever stayed relevant.
Enter the Dragon Punch
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It's still subscription based but you can pay for your sub entirely with gold now, and gold is generated incredibly easily via garrisons, so...
World of Warcraft makes upwards of $1,000,000,000 a year in subscription fees, box fees, and microtransactions from the store
that's a sign of a dead game.
They can always bust another time portal.
RichiRamjag
Member
Hard to replace it when fans can just play wow for that experience. After eve I could never go back to a wow style MMO though.
I'd rather there be a bunch of variety as opposed to a single all-consuming game. Guild Wars 2, Elder Scrolls Online, Final Fantasy 14, SWTOR have all seen their own varying degrees of success in the genre recently.