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.
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."
The legal battle for the acquisition of Activision Blizzard continues, with Microsoft countering one of the FTC's latest moves and the Judge delaying a relevant ruling.
Look, to be honest the FTC should just stop.
MS has A/B and nothing has really changed yet...if you are worried about 5-10 years from now...just drop it cause the future is unpredictable.
Take this week's news, that 4 Xbox exclusive are going Multiplatform.
Microsoft's legal counsel has responded to the accusations leveled yesterday by the FTC within the legal battle for the acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
Microsoft thinks they did right thing did they? Imo you could've merge Activision into other sectors.
Apparently the layoffs were going to happen either way, and I'm inclined to believe it because Activision is beyond scummy. I'm instead wondering why Acti hired so many people in the first place.
i dont believe that for a second.
activision had their hands full with upcoming cod titles and current ones before the merger.
and mobile games ha
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.