World of Warcraft subscription numbers drop another 8%

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  This shouldn't be surprising to anyone. The game is nearly 10 years old now, and hasn't even hit its min... : action wombmate
  • I wonder what the highest playtimes are out there : multisync
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    I think the peak is long gone, but we will surely see decent spikes at every expansion for a while. I sti... : Evil Benius
    • Yep, but they had to know years ago that this was going to eventually happen. : action wombmate
  • I'm amazed it's this old and is still at 7.7m users. : riptyde
  • The only way to reclaim the momentum is to release a sequel. It will decline to the point where only the ... : TheEmissary
• I've read that the majority of the recent sub losses have been concentrated in Asia, where the draw of fr... : Magitek
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  Finally. However, even wow starts to really falter, I don't think we'll ever see an MMO as pervasive as W... : master_disaster_17
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    I am not sure WoW ended up helping the genre. Sure it brought a ton of players in, but they were WoW play... : Evil Benius
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      I wouldn't say that. I've tried plenty of other MMOs, none are as polished or long lasting. : node
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        WoW wasn't that polished or stable at release either. : Discrete
        • But they had the ability and know-how to appeal to the masses. : lonepinemall
  • Something else will come along. It always does. : riptyde
• Poor WoW, they'll have to close up shop soon. : cerealSAM2
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  It had a good run, and 7.7mil is still not bad numbers. :) : DM7
  • Still at about 3x what any other MMO ever managed to reach. I think there's two or three other MMOs that ... : SilverSnake
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  They'll be making money on this game for another 10 years. If there are 1 million subscribers, they'll be... : jayacheess
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    Isn't Titan already known to be another MMO in a new IP? Well, before the refresh that is. : fire00f1y
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      Forgot about this. 2016 sounds about right to have the WoW population migrate over. : jayacheess
      • You mean 2026? I don't think Blizzard has ever launched a game on time, and there's no way they're churni... : StealthHawk
• I don't know why these stories are such big deals every quarter : ashkie
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  i wonder how a WoW 2 would be received : EvilDolemite
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    Wildstar is basically wow 2. : xxx2xxx
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      Rift is basically wow 2 : fire00f1y
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        not even close to how close wildstar is. : xxx2xxx
        • Ha, I was just being contrary. If you want to see the biggest ever wow ripoff, check out Order and Chaos.... : fire00f1y
  • See: Everquest 2 All of the hardcore fans think they want something new, try it and decide it sucks b... : ]aratex[
  • The Cataclysm expansion was basically WoW 2. : action wombmate
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    I think Elder Scrolls Online has the potential to beat World of Warcraft. You already have a popular RPG ... : TheEmissary
    • I am sure that is what Bioware and EA thought too. : fried sushi
    • Hahaha. : daedraug
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      how much would you like to wager on this prediction : electroly
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        I said potential to be, I know perfectly well it could fall flat on its face like all the others. TOR failed for a number of reasons. Alot of what I am seeing of ESO has the TES feel to it. I guess we will see in a year. ESO is releasing on three platforms as well so if gets 1 or 2 million on each platform that will be enough to get to the current WOW figures.

        Jul 26, 2013 11:51am PDT
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        I said potential to be, I know perfectly well it could fall flat on its face like all the others. TOR fai... : TheEmissary
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          "potential" in the way you've used it means nothing. in that sense, anything that is unreleased has "pote... : electroly
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            I can see them hitting those numbers, I don't see it retaining those numbers past the first month though. : fried sushi
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              swtor tapped out at just over a million and it had way more promise than eso. eso isn't going to come an... : electroly
              • Yeah I misread TheEmissary's post, I was saying it could hit 1-2 million maybe in the first month. I wou... : fried sushi
    • The most single-player focused fan base there is though. People get worked up even at the thought of thro... : DinK
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      Unlike Lord of the Rings Online, Star Wars: The Old Republic and Warhammer Online? I've said it before... : SilverSnake
      • The next big "MMO" will probably be more like Second Life than WoW. : edgewise
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      You have to realize that WoW became the monster that it is by reaching beyond the niche RPG fan base. Ju... : action wombmate
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        I honestly wonder if WoW succeeded to the extent that it did only because it was released by Blizzard. : StealthHawk
        • There's probably a confluence of factors that made it the beast it is, the Blizzard name certainly being ... : action wombmate
    • Laughing really hard at this post. : mourningstar
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      I wish you could see how many lols you're gonna get on this post. : squigiliwams
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        The emissary of lols? : capt tripps
        • King of High House LOL : Ride-My-Rocket
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  Can't wait for WOW to go to FTP so I can come back. : saturn96
  • Me too. Plummet away, subscriber pool. : Fooldozer
  • Yea then I can upload some html to it : kaddar0
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  I know nothing about MMORPGs, but curious to know where are the players migrating to? : pieman
  • jobs and family : xxx2xxx
  • I'd guess most of the decline is from people who stop playing MMOs. : daedraug
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    other types of games : electroly
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      Probably LoL? I know a lot of people who played or play WoW off and on and moved to LoL. : StealthHawk
      • This is actually true, a lot of people are messing around w/LoL while waiting for FF14:ARR, Wildstar and/... : lefthighkick
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    probably opening a window a crack and hissing at the sun : boring gegtik
    • You should of put "and hissing into the sun" onto a new line of the shack chrome extension. : pieman
  • ^^^ All of the above. : Nixx2004
  • Mom didn't bring bathroom in time. RIP. : sanchez
  • diabetes : [fry]
  • My dad switched to building a model train. : NexusOne
  • Euro Truck Simulator 2 : Nighteyes
  • Plenty of them move back to playing non mmo games. WoW captured a lot of new mmo players and style of the... : Turd Ferguson
• it's still the best mmorpg. : atom519
• I just re-subbed about a week ago or so.. :( : g0nk
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  5.2/Throne of Thunder basically killed my casual raiding guild. And these were people who stuck around t... : banks29
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    People poopsock shit to get it done asap, and then complain on the forums about not having anything to do... : walker270
    • Pretty much. They've added a ton of useless, boring, grindy stuff with every major patch. I don't want to... : VictoriouSecret
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    That's basically what did it for me. I just couldn't stand doing the same quests over and over again. ... : StuMan1337
    • Honestly, I couldn't care less about making e-friends on a WoW server. The old days of spamming trade cha... : zombie man
  • The increase in difficulty between boss #1 and boss #2 was ridiculous. Also, forcing linear progression o... : edgewise
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  I wonder what the total lifetime revenue of WoW is : ninjase
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    Only if displayed relative to world country's GDP. : walker270
    • terradolllars : ninjase
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    I wonder if i've given more money to chinese farmers or Blizzard themselves. : Ellissd
    • I'd be interested to see not only Blizzard's revenue, but the total spin off revenue from all the busines... : jayacheess
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  Miss those vanilla years, but they've milked it for all it's worth. : pturvz
  • it has 7 times the playersof the nearest MMORPG. I think it has a lot left : AllYourBase
• In related news, McDonalds only sold 21.7 billion hamburgers this year, down from last year's total of 23... : edgewise
• Our guild lasted for several years. With every expansion we lost some and won some new members, but over ... : Lukiopimp