Thread: WoW at 6.8 million subscribers    

Originally Posted by Plow

you're doing it wrong

Only farmed coins once or twice ever and it was forever ago.

Originally Posted by Katlan

How many of WoWs subscribers are NA/European players? I've always been under the assumption that sub 2million are actual Western players and most of WoWs playerbase is from china

don't they track china separately now? I thought there were like 15m chinese players at some point or some such.

Originally Posted by Boyiee

Only farmed coins once or twice ever and it was forever ago.

that would explain it then, there's much better places now, although there were some ways you could farm mass quantities of them in raids before

Originally Posted by Boyiee

That's not a slow slide.

Compared to what other game? Most MMOs nowadays see a huge drop in subs after the 1st free month or after a couple months when people hit end game and find no new content. While subs are dropping for WoW, they are at least taking steps to not make it noticeable with the cross realm shit, and making arena/RBGs and even raids now cross-realm. No one is going to really notice as much, unlike before where if a good % of your server quit, you really felt it.

A lot of those lost subs are probably people just too old for this shit as well nowadays, I mean I SHOULD be too old for it, but I still play because I need something to kill time. Most have left the MMO genre completely and I know personally i'm on the verge of it as well. Every MMO of late has been a colossal disappointment to me, some due to the hype, and some due to the over-the-top casual approach they took.

Originally Posted by Meresgi

Compared to what other game?

It doesn't matter, you don't need to compare it. It dropped over 4 million players in 3-4 years, 33% of its player base.

6.8 million

World of Warcraft subs now stand at 6.8 million as of June 30 according to Activision.

That’s approximately 800,000 less than reported three months ago.

The figures were revealed in the firm’s latest financial results and attributed the decline in subscribers quarter over quarter, as being “disproportionately concentrated in the East.”

The firm said this was similar to the seasonal decline experienced during the second quarter of 2012, prior to the launch of the most recent expansion later that year.

In May, Activision reported 7.6 million subscribers, which was down from the 7.8 million reported the last time out.

http://www.vg247.com/2014/08/05/worl...c-subscribers/

Mmm nothing like doing SoO for months and months and months and months.....to make you want to stay subbed to the game!

so it was officially higher than this at the end of vanilla, and this is the lowest it's been since then

and approaching half of the 12m peak

http://media.mmo-champion.com/images...2CallSlide.jpg

Decline is the same as last time, nothing to see here, move along. Also Dance Studio 2020!...or 2030...or maybe 2090?