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It's ALIVE!!! 7.4 MILLION SUBS
Battlerock
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simply scroll down and readem in weep, WoW is alive and strong and it's only going to get better once WoD launches - come join in the fun live on the one - the only - the King of them all - World ----- Of ---------- WARCRAFT!!!
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Would not read to much in to it.
Population always peeks before an expansion.
Only time will tell how big the churn will be
This have been a good conversation
It's surge for the expansion.
well of course, but that's pretty impressive. The game is 10 years old already and it's just plugging and chugging away. Most games can't even get 1 million people, they even try giving the games away for free and still can barely get that many people.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Ok so I am no WoW fanboy but 7.4 million subs pre x-pack launch on a game that is 10 years old is indeed news worthy!
Good for Blizzard, not sure I will play WoD but good for them none the less. WoW will always be my favorite all time MMO. Not present day WoW but Vanilla and TBC was the best, end of story!
I'd still be one of those 7.4 million subs if the wealthiest company in the industry had the amount of content to show for it.
Typical blizzard forum posts: "Oh we can't add that because then we'd sacrifice a raid tier" "Oh we removed that from the patch because it would've set back our development"
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http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/4417-WoW-Up-to-7-4-Million-Subscribers-Garrosh-Heirlooms-MoP-in-Base-Game-Chopper-Mount
It might've went up, but if you look at the overall chart in this link, it's doing really badly. It's peak was 12 million, and it fell to 6.8 million. So yes, it's alive, but it's just dying slowly.
edit: i put in a newer link.
I think there is a mass exodus taking place now...this is the sloppiest release Blizzard has ever done IMHO. Much is broken. Many, many bugs are plaguing the game post release of WoD.
So Sad...yes, I did cancel. I will go back in a few weeks to see if they got things fixed, but my sub was due and I didn't feel like doing a live beta.
Yes, echoes of NGE are wafting through my head...
Hmm..... Ebola.....
Yes it will definitely be Ebola
"Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee
I'll have to agree, the pre-launch surge is more subs than CCP has in all of EVE, bet they'd be happy with a 10th of that amount when they launched an expansion.
People love their WOW, my son plans on resubbing once the expansion goes live......long term fan since beta when he was like.... 12.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Really? Really now? Yes the peak was 12 million at the launch of Cataclysm, and yes it did fall to 6.8 million subs, and yes now it's back up to 7.4 million subs. Yes, it will drop back down after the xpack launches and is out for a bit.
However, to say WoW is "doing really badly" especially compared to the REST OF THE MMO INDUSTRY is just silly. The 600k subs they gained is more or less equal to the total user base of many mmos out there.
Given the game is nearing it's 10 year anniversary, and still dwarfs the population of every other mmo. WoW is many things, but doing really badly is not one of them.
Many companies would kill to be doing as "badly" as Blizzard.
It is odd that one game hovers over this website as a dark Omen for 10 years already.
It is even more funny that everyone is trying to forget it by buying shitty copies from shitty publishers.
There were even dozens of new words invented to distinguish it from others, meaningless words like sandbox MMO's, theme parc MMO's, mac Donalds MMO's and Justin Bieber quality.
No wonder this website now includes everything that uses a mouse or joystick and calls it an MMORPG ...just to burry that one thought that keeps haunting them forever: WOW's demise.
A pity most of us will be dead before Azeroth will fold.
I think in comparison to itself... compared to previous numbers, 7.4 million subs is still below TBC era... in other words, we're talking vanilla WoW days when the actual number of people playing MMOs was far far less than it is now. From that standpoint, it isn't doing very well, it hasn't managed to grow, just hang on.
It's doing really badly relative to what? Itself? The industry? There isn't a single game running that wouldn't want to be dying the way WoW is dying right now.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
The fact that they can "play" around with 600k+ subs on a game engine that's probably 15 years old, and a game that's 10 years old, that had 1% of the budget that some MMOs have now is enough said.
Whether or not you think the game is getting easier, or the game sucks, you have to respect the facts.
And you have to remember, those are just subs for the pre-patch for the expansion.
Everyone knows who the next WoW killer is, that being Blizzard. Imagine how many subs this game would have if Blizzard actually tried to do something innovative with its expansions. I mean in all honesty, Blizzard has made a fuck ton of money from WoW and when looking at WoW, how far has the game really come. In my opinion the game has regressed more than advanced over the last few expansions.
I understand that talent trees were a lesson in flavor of the month builds. So why hasnt blizzard replaced it with a system that gives more viable choices? Reducing the amount of abilities per class is fine and dandy if there is still choice when it comes to how you approach combat. IMO the worst thing an MMO can have is standard ability rotations. When every, lets go with affliction warlock, fights in the same manner with the exact same spells casted in the exact same order, something is fucking wrong with combat in your mmo.
Now lets all be honest, is this 7.4 mil subs due to:
1. Still no real competition in the mmo market
2. People do not like giving up all the time they have invested in WoW
3. WoW is really that good
I am sure all of those answers apply. I am just curious as to how many would actually choose answer 3.
Wha- Wut!? Someone resurrected WoW after a year of no content updates? :O
Garrisons actually look decent, I'll have to wait for a review on them after the launch to determine if there's any point at all to check the expansion.
I suppose they still have zero open world content after the leveling is done besides raiding, even in WoD?
This, combined with all the crying about the game being harder when the patch went live a couple days ago, topped with my wife nagging me to play something with her has caused me to come back after 4 years away. I have noticed dungeon runs are much more....... interesting than I remember. Seems like right now you cant pull entire rooms and faceroll. Too soon to tell if this is going to hold my attention but at least I have 2 expansions worth of content to rummage through.
RIP Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan and Paul Gray.
1. Who said WoW was dead?
2. Games tend to see a jump in players when they release a new expansion.
3. Give it about 1-2 months after WoD and then see what the pop is doing, most likely it will start to go down again.
I'm pretty sure the budget of vanilla + 4-5 expansions and 13-15 years of hundreds of people working on it, is a bit more than most MMOs that have released recently. Just saying, because it really does not matter how the game was 10 years ago or what the cost was back then if we are to compare to other games of "now".
But it's a huge success story in any case, everyone knows that, even the most hardcore haters. No wonder why it sent the whole mmorpg industry to the dark ages, unable to innovate or evolve at all for many years, because everyone wanted to clone the success.
I guess it's a major victory for WoW fanboys, grats on that, I'm just glad that these days the "X will kill WoW" is barely noticeable in mmorpg community, and WoW has became its own thing, and if you want something else, you can have that without even hearing a whisper of WoW. I cant remember when last I've heard any WoW reference in public channels of other games, the situation matured some time ago, just like the development side is doing too.
Anyway, I wish long and prosperous life for WoW, it's not an obstacle to mmorpg evolution anymore, so now I can look back at it as the fun and amazing "first big mmorpg" that it was for me (vanilla, TBC, and then at Wrath the final straw struck), no need to be frustrated anymore because every game is a WoW in camouflage when you try to find something different
Tldr; blah blah. Sorry for the derail and blah blah, felt good to pour it out anyway about my old ruler ;D