Just wait until the annual passes start to expire and those numbers are going way down.

I think any gaming company would sell their souls to the devil to have 25% of the number of subs, let alone box sales WoW has/had.

Originally posted by Baddogbill

All I see is subscription licensing and other revenues  @ 298m down from 388m in 2011 for the first quarter ..... Subscription, licensing and other revenues represents revenues from World of Warcraft subscriptions, Call of Duty Elite memberships, licensing royalties from our products and franchises, value-added services, downloadable content, and other miscellaneous revenues.Sorry folks just subtracting the call of Duty Elite memberships @ 2 million just doesn't leave enough money to come anywhere close to 10.2 million playing subs which they state is 2 .

Blizzard plays games by counting Asian players as subs.  Asians pay by the hour and are considered a subber if they only played one hour.

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Originally posted by FrodoFragins

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Originally posted by Baddogbill All I see is subscription licensing and other revenues  @ 298m down from 388m in 2011 for the first quarter ..... Subscription, licensing and other revenues represents revenues from World of Warcraft subscriptions, Call of Duty Elite memberships, licensing royalties from our products and franchises, value-added services, downloadable content, and other miscellaneous revenues.Sorry folks just subtracting the call of Duty Elite memberships @ 2 million just doesn't leave enough money to come anywhere close to 10.2 million playing subs which they state is 2 .

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Blizzard plays games by counting Asian players as subs.  Asians pay by the hour and are considered a subber if they only played one hour.

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The only difference is that you payed a lot more for that 1 hour of game time.

Also, not all Asians pay by the hour. Asia consists of more than just China. Look at a map for the love of God.

So much for the "pure subscription model dying" arguement.

Good for Blizzard.

I can barely picture 6-7 million people wanting to sit down and grind through endless amounts of boring content.  Wish this game would either 1. Die out or 2. Get fun again, but knowing blizzard probably neither will happen. 

You do realize that that's worldwide right? NA is more along the lines of 4-5mil out of that figure. It's also do the unexpired annual passes people dished out to get D3 for free, so you have to subtract 1.2mil of those from the figure because im pretty sure those will probably leave at the end of their pass unless they are being effected by two things. loneliness and false hope.

People have a hard time leaving WoW because they have friends who are just holding on with the false hope that Blizz will actually put out quality and they don't like leaving their friends. It's happened to everyone, my friends are in SWTOR right now but i am not following them for many reasons, and another friend of mine is now playing console games she isn't even on mmos. Missing friends does make it hard not to follow them to the game they've chosen but there are many reasons i am not SWTOR.

For the amount of posts I normally read that bash or simply don't play WoW I'm surprised this game is still as popular. I mean I still see some WoW players post from time to time but it's not like GW2 or TSW. Perhaps they are too busy playing the game or are just too casual I'm not sure. But it's strange for a game with such a population or perhaps I'm missing something here.

My server gets emptier every day - I do not believe in numbers.

Originally posted by Mahavishnu

My server gets emptier every day - I do not believe in numbers.

EU server?