World of Warcraft Loses 800,000 Subscribers in Three Months

yes yes lose lose until no one play

alot of people(like myself) are unsubbed till the next expansion cause it's in that end of the expansion phase where there isn't any major update

to the credit of wow, 800k is probably half of what most mmo has PLAYERS. lose 800k, still close to 7 million. hold that

They really should release the last SC2 expansion before it gets outdated.

"that << LINK REMOVED >>has now sold more than 20 million copies" ....D*amn

I know it's pain in the ass to develop new contents, but come on.. It's been 7months already since I finished farming gears from this expansion and quit. People are still playing the same thing, just with different character, farming farming and farming. If Blizz dont want players to quit, it really needs to strengthen the social contents inside the game. After some point people enjoy socializing more than killing speechless monsters.

WoW used to be fun back in the day. Then I grew up and so did most of my guild. Getting old sucks. Cherish your college gaming years. ;P

Everquest has had 19 expansions and is still around with its sub-par numbers. Pretty sure WoW will be around at least until Blizz's next MMO hits. Not every Everquest expansion was a great one either, but that doesn't mean it should die, and is precisely why it hasn't. There will always be a true fanbase, the ones who love the game and want to see it prosper. Unfortunately, there will always be those who can't move on from a game that they don't play any longer, for whatever reason, and feel inclined to be bitter about it the rest of their lives.

People seem to think that with a plethora of expansions that the next one must top all others. This is impossible to do, and it is highly illogical to think so. At this point people are either sitting back to enjoy the ride, or have jumped off long ago, at which point it doesn't matter what they think about the current state of WoW.

I'm just glad there are people like Mikepreachwow and Hobbs who are sticking with the game and are the voice of the current fanbase. They continue to play and offer an objective opinion on WoW, having played since it's inception. These people who are in the forefront of the visible WoW community are the ones that should be listened to as they have all sorts of things to say about WoW, good and bad, but don't lose themselves in the forest by staring at a tree. I know I am not the only one that probably thinks this way.

Does WoW have things that need fixing? Yes. Has Blizz fixed everything? No. Have they stopped trying? Absolutely not.

Furthest I ever took the game was WotLK. Here's to days gone by....

But 6.8M is still a commanding lead over MMO #2 through #10 combined.

rofl the game still has 6.8 subs. still the most of any mmorpgs that is chargin $15 a month and its not even close. people actin like it just died. it has been out since 2004. other mmorpgs try to copy the $15 a month format and fail within a year or two.

Whenever I sub the game I am disappointed with myself for doing so. It takes all of a day of being back in the game to realize how bad the game is.

Bad is not old. Just for the crowd that likes to blame age for this game being bad.

If they would only realize the bulk of their player base is 20+ they'd be getting somewhere. Instead they treat us like children in their narrative, their game design and aesthetic.

Yea because WoW is just so bad now. It used to be fun during BC/Wrath... the goofy pandas lost me. But it was bad during Cata too. Now they have islands where you just hit 90 and go pick up purples in chests. The pandering (har har) to casuals needs to stop.

The average comment made by Gamespot users on a WoW article, "I USED 2 PLAY WOW, THEN I DON'T."

Vanilla WOW was the best game that Blizzard ever made, and it only went downhill from there. Cataclysm was barely good enough. I killed Deathwing (something I've wanted to do since I was a little kid playing WC2) and that's where the story ends for me. Everybody lives happily ever after.

There are no pandas in Warcraft. **** off.

StarCraft 2's single-player was a huge disappointment, but the multi-player was very good.

Didn't buy Diablo 3 because by then I had lost all faith in Blizzard.

Oh how far the mighty have fallen. There was once a time when "Blizzard, or Valve?" was a question I could not possibly answer, and now it's easy. Praise GabeN.

its their own fault for remaking the world in cataclysm it entirely killed the nostalgia.and made it basically a new game that not everyone liked the vast majority of players left are addicted to wow. its like alcohol.

that's a lot of people in 3 months

Some will come back but not as nearly as much as people are assuming. WoW is done and it is time that everyone just moves on to better things.

Down to 6.8 million subscribers.... that means blizzard is still milking over 100 million a month on this game. What do they do with all that money?

Just make the character models slightly higher poly, that should do it. Oh no wait, you already did that.