World of Warcraft Loses 800,000 Subscribers in Three Months

Wow is lame. PC gaming is lame. Chat amongst yourselves in your guild chat to disagree, I won't listen because I already know I'm right....and clean your room, if you live with your mom when you're 30+ you should at least respect them enough not to play WoW 16 hours a day and nothing else.

the fact is most people have stopper they're account until wod as there is NOTHING to do sadly...blizz's loss

They loose more , they hide true numbers i bet.

Mmm they must of finally banned those Chinese gold farmers.

End of expansion drop off, they'll be back, they need their fix.

I needed mine sooner, so I signed up again a week or so ago after a hiatus of over a year. The problem that Blizzard has is that they put out the last bit of major content, then the game stays the same for a year or more before they release the next expansion. People get bored.

Supposedly they are going to reduce the time between expansions, hopefully by about 6 months. Gives the raids a fair go, but you avoid the drop off. They could also make the gear scale up as people level, so they don't feel like they've wasted their time. When they hit the new level cap, they already have a set to start advancing in dungeons to prepare for the new raids. Everyone's happy.

So obviously I don't quite know how their revenue stream works...but if every player is paying $13 a month, and they have 6.8 million players... It's works to just over a billion a year in subscription alone.

This is not news this happens before every major expansion when Blizz just doesn't have any new content for the old expansion, I've done it several times myself, just gets boring with nothing new to do.

Aw my favorite mmo is starting to lose it's fanbase quickly.

"Activision Blizzard reported that a record 73 percent of the company's total revenue came from digital sales" The digital-only (or mostly digital) era has already arrived for Blizzard. 73 % is a lot, but Blizzard has always been focused on the online PC bit and that has really helped increase the digital sales.

WoW will be 10 years this November along with Half-Life 2 and Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. I still play the latter and it's one of my favorite games ever. Can't say that about the other two.

IneverplayedWoW!

*runs away*

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where all does revenue come from other than subscription fees and expansions? haven't played in a long time.

"Activision Blizzard reported that a record 73 percent of the company's total revenue came from digital sales."

Wow digital has really taken over retail.

I ran the simulation in game dev tycoon, the outcome was bleak. The mmo cost to much to maintain, the expansion packs were bandaids at best.

I a lighter note, this is bringing us closer to that new warcraft game!

Im honestly surprised they still have that many after over a decade.

I quit a few months ago, it seems like the Blizzard devs are so lazy, they can't even put out any new content and they make more money than any other MMORPG in the world yet we don't see any new content for a year or longer but somehow all these F2P/B2P MMOs are able to push out new content monthly, it's ridiculous.

I hope they lose more, maybe a few more million so they'll get their act together, then again it's a 10 year old game, maybe people want something new to play. Maybe a new MMORPG to finally compete with WoW would be nice but I don't see anything on the radar for the new future...star citizen looks promising but it's a different genre.

Im surprised its still going, thought it would have died already (Its an old game, they must have done everything by now ;) ).

Themepark MMOs need to die.

Most of the players are in China anyways, so the numbers are vastly inflated.

Playing Siege of orgrimmar for a year is FUN!

Wow, WOW!

Odd, this article just said 1 million. Then taken down. Then changed to 800,000. That was a quick edit!!