This quarter WoW lost 400,000 subscribers and is now at 9.6 million subscribers worldwide.

This is quite a surprise considering that Blizzard said MoP has been very popular in Asia(WoW China got up to 1 million concurrent players which they havent done since TBC).

So, I guess this means that what gains they got by launching MoP in Asia could not counteract the people leaving from NA and Europe.

Perhaps this will mean Blizzard will end their obsession with DAILIES DAILIES DAILIES.

P.S. - Gold Star to the first "WoW doesnt have 9.6 million active subscribers" post.

Wow subs dropped 4%

THIS GAME IS DYING FORGET THAT ITS DEAD DEAD DEAD

honestly, that's all you can expect from this topic

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OMG WOW is dead !!! not. come back when it has less than 1M players.

I myself have unsubbed, but will sub again when the new raid comes out in 5.2.

Originally posted by zomard100
Are you happy now? Imagine only how rest of the games sucks with far less players

4% is far less?

Also, OP, I think Dailies aren't the problem so much as CRZ was a mixed bag of love and hate.

Still, as others have said.  96% retention, thats impressive.

The guy said majority of the sub losses came from CHINA.

I guess westerners like PANDAS more than the Chinese!

Yeah, 9.6 mil is alot more that most new games, if not all as far as MMORPGs go.

I went back to playing wow, only because I have conceded that only Blizzard will make the "next WoW" killer, all the other games we see are low budget wanna be's or virtual scams.

I recall when wow first came out, it had enough content to keep you busy, you could level with one char to level 60 and then make another one and play completly different content when you took the char to 60, and still be with the same faction. Reason I went back is that they have more than enough content now alomost 10 years later to keep anyone busy for a long time.

They were using a engine that they develped with approx 2001 technology, why in 2010+ we still see low content half made games, and F2P because its "soo expensive" to make with better tech and software is beyond me.....

Games nowadays could probably make a "wow" clone with 4 factions, 15 classes and as much land mass as wow is now at launch with probablly half the manpower

Originally posted by dimnikar

The guy said majority of the sub losses came from CHINA.

 

I guess westerners like PANDAS more than the Chinese!

Well known fact, the Chinese have been giving out the fuzzy bears as a diplomatic gesture for generations. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_diplomacy

Originally posted by Neverdyne
For a 7 year-old game that's not bad at all. 

A game that bloomed in popularity at just the right time before competition really started to arise in mass, particularly on the F2P front. Its a big hit no matter what though its not going to 'kill' the game.

Originally posted by Purutzil

Originally posted by Neverdyne
For a 7 year-old game that's not bad at all. 

A game that bloomed in popularity at just the right time before competition really started to arise in mass, particularly on the F2P front. Its a big hit no matter what though its not going to 'kill' the game.

In the same time that they lost 4% of their population, SWTOR lost around 50%.

In one quartrer. 

I'd say its doing great.

Call me when they have 400k subs left like swtor then we can say wow is dead. 

Well your out of your mind if you really belive wow has 9.6 mil subscribers. Most players are still in china and they have there a pay 2 play per hour system unlike here 15dollar /month.

Blizzard counts those accounts AS FULL SUBSCRIBERS. Now even if 1 played for like 15h and had quitted, he will be counted as subscriber!

Thats how they lie with theyr 9.6mil players. But fools gona believe everything because blizz need to stand with theyr game at the top. I know NOONE of my friends that still play WoW- NOONE. But im anyway in a high educated country- say you play mmos and people start to look down on you, because especially  mmos degenerate. But thats another story.

We have a winner!

First post about how Chinese players aren't real people above my post, somewhere :)

edit: Nevermind how these "fake" players that only play for 1 hour then quit, continue to do this month after month, year on year.... :D :D :D

Originally posted by Psychow
Nice to see the 96% retention rate! A rate other MMOs can only dream about!

I don't know what kind of churn or retention they have, but yeah, that's a nice place to be. :)

I like Godzilla, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Tekken, Streetfighter etc etc.. oh & I love asian food.

Just keep  the pandas n Asian dynasty fantasy out of my "High Fantasy" aka tolkien, wheel of time, etc etc

Do you pour lime juice on steak? no! you put ketchup or A-1 on that shiz.