World of Warcraft subs fall to 8.3 million

I wouldn't ever pay monthly subscription for an MMO. GW2 got it right with the flat rate.

wait didn't last year they said they had 14 million subs? and now this year they have 8.7 mil? wow they are losing alot of subs rapidly. i would play it again if it was free. in my own opinion it's not worth 15$ a month.

This isn't news. **** off.

This isn't 1995,these MMO need to stop being greedy an get with the MMO gaming Consoles.

Most of these subs are fake, as they also count people playing of free 7 days to try new patches/expansions. Still I hope they will make another MMO as good as WoW was some day...

PEOPLE PLEASE RETURN, AFTER ALL THE SHAREHOLDERS NEED YOU.

There are many reseaons to why is WoW declining but seriously that game has been going for 9 years it should be amazing to have 5million+ always online players..

Oh man what will Activi$on do with that small community of only 8.3 million....

I kind of want to try this game.

Isn't it free to play to a certain level?

8.3 million? well thats more than all of the MMORPGS together so... HAIL TO THE KING

They are making ~34% profit on the game! WOW! (pun intended)

I suspect most of these losses are from PvP'ers. PvP is declining sharply in the west and is completely dead in Asia by now, so yeah...

World of Warcraft has a very healthy PvE game at the moment. The classes are diverse, almost everybody is viable, there's always great new content to explore, things to see and do. The graphics of Pandaria are also substantially better than any previous expansion.

However, the PvP side remains the same old, and there aren't coming enough new maps for both arena and RBG. Almost everyone I know is frustrated with it.

Another thing that is killing World of Warcraft off is power creep. Power creep is a process whereby existing mechanics and items are superseded by more powerful mechanics and items over time. At first, it works really well, but eventually it becomes unsustainable. This has definitely happened to WoW - both in terms of stats where people run around with half a million health - but also in terms of abilities. You take a class from MoP, any class, and slap it into tBC arena with tBC gear, and you'll see something that's so hilarious it is sad. It will make S5 Death Knights look like peanuts.

AoE Death Grip, untrinketable AoE 10 second silences, a single hunter able to indefinitely CC a target, resto druids with undispellable AoE fear, Ring of Peace (movable AoE disarm and silence) and other ridiculously silly things are the beginning of the end.

Maybe cuz the game is nearly 9 years old????

They should implement premium 'retro' servers for Vanilla, BC and Wrath players.

Charge em double per month, just because.

The f2p games in the West should be happy WoW isn't loosing sub faster because they don't want it to go f2p and cut into there much they make....

Wait does anyone realize how big 8 mil is? Now multiply that by 15. And Blizz is still one lucky company.. They have done what will never be done again (because of dying sub-model), they have maintain the largest paying sub mmo for 7yrs +.. Even if they drop to 6mil sub by yrs end which company out there wouldn't want those returns on a 8yr old game..

If blizzard releases and expansion with dynamic content and 40 player raids and world pvp events (sieges of cities ?) and event related quests like "go and kill other players not the casual mob" would bring some life into the game.

Next.

MMORPG for ADHD

Thats the future.

The same old lul after content. It is amusing to see ppl swan in and claim these numbers are the beginning of the end. After every patch participation spikes up and then dips after a while. Depending at what point they pull the subscriber numbers depends if u see a rise or a fall in numbers.

Context, people!

wow has helped so many nerds get laid that they all have families and cant find the time to play anymore.

YES! FALL GOLIATH! FALL!