World of Warcraft subs fall 100k in three months

I'm one of those 100k as I quit a month ago, hopefully never to return.

"Significant and exciting new content"? Yeah some big evil bad guy will show up suddenly, youll be rallied to stop it, and you will, the end.

I used to love WOW for quite a while but it started going downhill the second they started pandering to casual players because they were constantly making the game easier and easier to play. The easier you make a MMO the easier it is the lazier the players get, the lazier players get then the more complacent they get and the more obnoxious they get.

Besides WOW offers no sense of exploration at all, the game constantly holds your hand all the way through with everything being segmented little areas where you follow the gps through everything via quests. Once you hit max level you can see 90% of the game all alone without any effort, and all the raiding content is simple as clicking the lfg tab and waiting a couple minutes then blowing through the content.

WoW was good once upon a time. Now there are far better "loot games" on the market. They should ditch the whole WoW thing all together and make a totally new game.

Maybe, it's because wow arent a hardcore mmo anymore, even with the heroic modes and all. Perhaps with the facilities implemented over the years has caused some players to leave the game, as in my case. Any player without fingers can get a cool gear...I miss BC and LK expansions

LOLOLOL... EF world of warcraft... was good maybe 7-8 years ago but now it's just make a new expension so that our customers don't leave...

Guild Wars is a much better experiance and they don't force you to pay subscriptions. Buy the game once, play it all you want and with regular events.

I have No idea how this game survived as long as it has. Played this for two weeks, got bored, went back to playing worthwhile games.

Any oldschool EQ heads on here reading this ? I recently went back to Norrath while I was staying over at a relative's house this last summer. Was a fun journey but how have things changed. I leveled a cleric to like 55 in a few days of play and me and my henchman for purely nostalgic reasons took a trip to Guk and soloed everything Lower Guk, including the ghoul king. Boy did I feel like a badass. Did the same thing in Sebilis. Got a SS of the ykesha, crystaline short sword and other goodies. I feel like the game has changed for the worse by making it way too easy.

Back in the day EQ took real skill, period. Dying meant that your corpse was stuck in the bottom of a dangerous place that you returned to naked as a jay bird, and unless you had a rogue or monk in your party that knew the area you were SOL. It took sometimes weeks to level up your character and standing in the wrong place or a bad pull meant that at any moment, the week your spent leveling up your character could be in jeopardy. The items in the game had real worth, becuase they took real skill and cooperation with your fellow primates to achieve them. When you dumb down games to make them more appealing often you lose what makes them good in the first place.

That's still pretty good. When it gets down to 3-4 or even 5 million, that's when you know that the slippery slide gets distinctly more vertical.

WoW needs to hurry up and die :/ it's not even close to what it was when it first released. It's just a boring game and I dislike blizzard/activision anyway *shrugs*

Only 100k ? WoW is on the rising.

It'll continue to fall now, mainly beause Cataclysm has had it's last content patch. Happens every expansion.

lt will drop to 4-5 mill and will freeze to that number there will be players around incldue me who will still play ww, because of lore,gameplay and friends , I don't regret any cent that i wasted in wow, sure it's lame between content releases and it's more daily grind but it's Fun and that what games are for.

So sick of hearing about people going on about the F2P for MMORPG's. Are you really that dumb that you believe that you can complete end game on any of these products without spending significant amounts of money, you are delusional. Do you think that developers make it F2P because they are nice? They do this to suck you in and then they start to hit the hip pocket. A friend of mine spends at least $100 a month on Entropia and I can say that I have spent at least $300 on Neverwinter online over the last 3 months since I unsubscribed from WoW. Yes I did get bored with it but for $15 a month who really cares. I will keep playing Neverwinter but will not spend another cent on upgrades or Zen. As of tonight I will back on the WoW subscription. There is still no other MMORPG out there that can say that they currently have a player base of this amount. Even at 7.6 million it is very significant and as long as Blizzard keep fixing the damage that they did with WoTLK people will keep coming back.

So how many hours do you think it'll take the locusts to hit the level cap, burn through the next expansion and whine about there being nothing to do again?

4? 5?

I subscribed this month so 99,999 gone and 1 back.

Shut your hole Kotick.

OH FK, 100k in 3months? thats a big deal >.>

WoW get incredibly boring, unless doing a raid. There is a plenty amount of things they could do to really put more entertainment into the game, if they had a billion subscribers you would still see the same amount of content being put into the game.

Example would be why not do more with 5-mans, something like the challenge mode(unchanged stats or items you must wear) and chances of getting all sorts of alternate transmog(and all available items in alternate colours/glows), pets(and alternate colours of all available), mounts(and and some alternate colours of w/e again).
Turn the pet battle system into a real decent pet battle game, it seem they actually have been fixing a lot of broken stuff finally, but needs far more attention in other areas.

LOL, how about WoW-Kart?

Just needs more for ppl to do other then just raid or pvp.

Eh, WoW is still one of the best MMORPGs out there. There's so much content there, all sorts cool collectibles, stuff that's in no way useful, all sorts of events and so on and so forth, plus once you get out of the LFR-treadmill and do proper raids it gets even better. I have tried most of the big-name MMORPGs that have come out after WoW, but I didn't feel like any of them could really hold the candle to WoW, they all have too many issues and I just end up being bored or I get angered by the constant push for nickel-and-diming. I would love to find a new MMORPG that could really hold my interest for even half as long as WoW did, but alas, I guess that's simply not to be.

wow! I would have thought they would have lost more than that. Nothing against the game at all but how long can people really play the same game? I'm messing around now with The Secret World... spent time with GW2 of course, plenty with Rift. For wow to hold the numbers it has does show that from the beginning they did have a formula that worked. It's still one of the best if you like to end up managing a ton of abilities once you are leveled. Strong PvP. But how they keep this many people paying $15 a month is just crazy.

It will keep on dropping and dropping and dropping until its finally canned.

For me, WoW died in 4.1 when they rehashed Zul'Gurub. I sucked up the rehashed Deadmines but I just knew Blizzard was out of creative juice then.

I kind of miss playing wow. After playing from launch until wrath of lich king, I've just lost interest but I still think about it sometimes and have a lot of fond memories!

I bet it dropped more than that. With the Xbox One release and a bunch of new games like Destiny, The Division and Star Citizen there is no need to go back to WoW. The game was great at one time now just let the thing die peacefully.

Was playing wow for 3 years 2004 - 2007, after killing Kil'Jeaden in Sunwell moved to other MMO RPG's that game died as hard core challanging MMO RPG,.. Best MMO but not challanging as it used to be.