Blizzard Entertainment seems to be worried about the drop of World of Warcraft subscribers by confirming that over 800,000 are already dropped since March 31. These figures were released during the April-June three month quarter by Blizzard yesterday.
Blizzard Entertainment has announced the opening of beta registrations for “World of Warcraft: The War Within,” inviting players to explore new subterranean worlds beneath Azeroth.
Danish from eXputer: "Despite Blizzard's attempt to give a fresh new spin to World of Warcraft, some fans still seem to be stuck in the past."
HG writes: "Blizzard is usually pretty bad at keeping secrets, but the company somehow managed to keep this one under wraps until now. Plunderstorm is a special limited-time event that’s basically World of Warcraft’s take on the Battle Royale genre."
this could be the end of the world.....of warcraft....
Ffs release info about project Titan and maybe that will get people excited and get those numbers up.
From 12 million in 2010 to 6.8 million subscribers in 2014. This is bad news for Blizzard.
Considering that the last big content patch was almost a year ago, it doesn't surprise me. They'll come back once WoD is out.
I know a WoW player who argues "active 10+ million and this is all sensational news." I swear sometimes he gets on my nerves with how he swears WoW is the "end all" and believes all games need to follow what they do.
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People get bored with it; Release new expansion, play the story till you beat it, raids until someone get bored, move on to another game until next expansion. Some people get tired of the same rotation and find new experiences/games. I wouldn't be surprised if the new expansion comes out, and the game still declines after the hype dies out.