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WoW have 10.2M players Q1 2012 Report
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"At March 31, 2012, the worldwide subscriber base for World of Warcraft was 10.2 million, compared to a subscriber base of 10.2 million at December 31, 2011, and 11.4 million at March 31, 2011. During the quarter there was a slight increase in subscribers in Asia. In general, the average revenue per subscriber is lower in Asia than in the U.S. and Europe. Looking forward, the company’s objective is to deliver new game content for World of Warcraft in all regions to further appeal to the gaming community."
You can find this info at 2012 first quarter report from activision blizard, page 23
http://investor.activision.com/reports.cfm
WoW is stable now.
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Whenever you see the word slight it means MEGA HUGE. I would wager only a few million tops are playing WoW in NA and EU with 80%+ pf the population coming from Asia. Untill Blizzard releases ofical numbers by region I will continue to believe what mine own eyes see.
WoW is a dying MMO in the west and the Panda expansion will only exaserbate the problem.
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what causes people to make this thread every 3 weeks?
WoW is likely to have the most NA/EU subscriptions for another 5 years, probably a lot more. Unless Titan blows people away, but we don't know anything about it. Even if you low bal NA/EU subs, they have 2.5 million. The only two MMOs that have above 250k NA/EU subs (10% of WoW) are EvE and SWTOR.
I'm really not surprised WoW is stable. Despite most of us not liking WoW it is still the most polished and smooth traditional MMO with a large playerbase. Just because we don't like it doesn't mean it's completely bad.
Play for fun. Play to win. Play for perfection. Play with friends. Play in another world. Why do you play?
What are you actually seeing with your eyes though? False numbers and false truths?
Fact is, WoW has more servers in Europe than any other MMO, and more servers in America than any other MMO, I can't speak for the other western countries.
Each one holds 3-5,000 people, most are medium, a large portion are full.
My eyes are telling me that WoW still has around 1/3 of it's playerbase in the western markets, if not just less than half.
Sure its stable hehe
But its Asia talking with all Millions. any Korean MMO got 5+mill players there.
less and less parents paying for their children accounts now in europe or states
Dying is it? Even though it still has the largest sub pool even when you factor out Asia numbers? Sure is dying there. Loss of subs is only natural as some good MMOs are being released however it still is highly successful and MoP WILL bring many subs, wether they remain is yet to be determin. Many proclaimed that SWTOR will take WoW subs by strom, we saw how that went...
WoW is far from dying and you don't see it doing a F2P transition like say.... SWTOR? Nor did they have their consumers screaming for server merges for months unless I missed that, haven't followed WoW much and didn't see any threads here bring that info in.
By Wishkeydust "Lol OP lol...... Pffft Portugal"
yes... and???
Subs will rise when mop is released too.
Um, they already have a free trial like swtor and have needed server merges for a small % of their servers since 2007, most PvP servers could benefit from merges but the PvE servers are mostly fine.
WoW did lose anywhere from 25%-33% of their N/A sub base since Cataclysm, but Cataclysm sucked and WoW is 8 years old now so thats not really an alarming number. Most MMOs would love to say theyve only lost 33% of subs in that same tie frame. Rift and SWTOR would be jumping for joy at those numbers.
80% is from Asia, would be great to know how many subs on NA and EA WoW have, and not this lie of the 10 Mill of subs.
I no longer play WoW, haven't played for years, but plenty of parents are still paying for their childrens subs to WoW. I have many friends that still pay for their childrens WoW, even though they no longer play. My husband bought our son a years subscription just so my son could get into Mists of Pandaria beta. I'm sure there are a lot of people that did that too. I don't think WoW's going to die off anytime soon, though I have no doubt they have only a few million in NA subbing to the game. I think once Titan comes out, you'll see a huge decline in WoW's NA/EU numbers. GW2 will also hit WoW hard. We'll never know the real numbers with WoW. Just like with EA with SWTOR, they pad numbers.
What happens when you log off your characters????.....
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Good for WoW. Still don't like it.
the best way to tell will come when they release MOP
how many players do you know who play WOW would not purchase a new expansion in the first week
we can asume this is likly to be 80%+ of the player base and from that deduce roughly a total amount of players
lets wait and see how many copies they sell then we all can see how many real subs they have
Amazing!
Then my guild of 4 years and the server we played on must be a fluke then. Because the guild is gone, over 70+ active players during cataclysm. And I got on a month ago to a dead server. So.... Stay off my server everyone and enjoy the other ones where those 10 million+ players apparently reside.
WoW in 1 pic:
But hamsters are cute, while the gear treadmill is not.
Probably right around 3 million NA+EU subs.
The rest of the 7 or so million are Chinese bots.
Just wait until a few weeks from now in the next quarterly report. This report on the heels of the back end of a content patch and the best quarter of the year for them,; the holidays. (Dragon soul came out in like oct-nov of 11) Now that same content patch has been out close to 10 months. Not saying it is gonna drop alot, but there is a good chance it will be dropping again soon. Obviously it won't drop again in Q3 because MoP will be out at the end of Q3. It won't drop again in Q4 because MoP will still be fresh and there best quarter is Q4. But in 2013 the game will easily be a vastly different game sub wise then now.
i hope the 10.2 million stay there.