No More WoW Numbers [Nov 04, 2015, 10:33 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Activision Blizzard says they will no longer announce subscriber counts for
World of Warcraft, their subscription MMORPG. In
yesterday's
financial reporting they revealed the game is down to 5.5 million
subscribers, which is still impressive, but well under half the game's peak.
With their user count getting smaller every time around, they no longer feel
this is in their best interests to continue publicizing the game's gradual
decline.
GameSpot quotes how they explained this during their post-earnings
conference call: "Note that this is the last quarter that we plan to provide
subscriber numbers," the company said. "There are other metrics that are better
indicators of the overall Blizzard business performance."
Jamil20 wrote on Nov 4, 2015, 13:18:
I feel like I should give it another whirl before the end. I haven't played since a year after launch. I would like to see how it has changed since then. I wonder if my toon still exists. He would still be at level 60.
The most recent Draenor expansion is a ton of fun. Beyond the usual mission chains, you secure a fortress base for yourself, and then a small outpost in each different land.
If anything, there wasn't enough of that. I figured out how to trigger precisely one invasion of my fort.
This was the first time I resubscribed since Cataclysm, which I never finished, except for a couple of months here and there.
You get one instant 90 character, so you can start the expansion immediately. I used it to clone my 85, which I had pumped up from 70 (? Can't remember, resubbed briefly a few times) a few weeks earlier prior to the release.
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