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World of Warcraft: Down to Eight Million Subscribers
SBFord
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In the first quarter financial report for Activision-Blizzard, CEO Bobby Kotick announced that World of Warcraft is still the number one subscription-based MMO in the world with over eight million subscribers. This is down significantly from past years when the number of subscribers was over the ten million mark.
Kotick added, “ While we have had a solid start to the year , we now believe that the risks and uncertainties in the back half of 2013 are more challenging than our earlier view, especially in the holiday quarter . The shift in release dates of competing products, the disappointing launch of the Wii U ™ , uncertainties regarding next - generati on hardware, and subscriber declines in our World of Warcraft business all raise concerns, as do continued challenges in the global economy . For these reasons, we remain cautious. However, our focused and disciplined approach to our business has served u s well in the past, and through continued investment and careful management of our costs, we expect to continue delivering shareholder value over the long term as we have for the last 20 years.”
Read the Activision-Blizzard press release.
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I hope it doesn't get too rushed, I wonder if bliz will do what they've never done and release something early because of financial pressure.
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I just cancelled my sub yesterday, pretty bored of the game. I'll probably be back at some point though.
Anyways... it's dying!
oh boo hoo theyre down to 8m subs...not like theyll go hungry or jaz like that =P
yup, at this rate EvE will be the #1 sub MMORPG by 2031
People leave the game => more servers get dead => Blizzard never do any merges => people pay for transfers = whenever it's rising or falling sub wise it's generating revenue.
That makes no sense at all. You couldn't stand the emotional torment you'd suffer for transferring servers and instead decided that no game is better.... You know you're not playing on your fav server anymore either way right?
Yeah, i think this is hurting them. 80% of the servers are quite healthy, but that 20% (and some of those PvP servers have never seen medium pop in their 7 year existence) is starting to give up. theyve talked and talked about trying to fix it, and CRZ was a decent idea on paper I guess, but why dont they just merge? Makes no sense.
deferred revenue has nothing to do with transfers, that goes into cash. deferred revenue is subscription time that hasnt been used up. Most likely current months sub revenue + multi month subs. Im not one of their accouttants so I don't really know for sure the complete makeup of that account, but by definition instant account transfers can't be deferred revenue.
Of course they will produce a new MMO. It just wont be a WoW clone. Go after a different player base.
Actually....it was the CU Kickstarter campaign...
Sandbox means open world, non-linear gaming PERIOD!
Subscription Gaming, especially MMO gaming is a Cash grab bigger then the most P2W cash shop!
Bring Back Exploration and lengthy progression times. RPG's have always been about the Journey not the destination!!!