World Of Warcraft Subscriptions Down 10%

21 responses to “World Of Warcraft Subscriptions Down 10%”

1. 

   Jake

   November 9, 2011 at 4:51 pm

   I’m waiting for the successor myself. I thought it would be WaR, but that sucked.

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2. 

   Jack

   November 9, 2011 at 5:06 pm

   I can’t wait for Star Wars: The Old Republic.

   Also I hope they soon announce a western release for Dragon Ball Online.
   And I hope we’ll soon see more details emerge about the Doctor Who: Worlds in Time MMo.

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3. 

   Nate

   November 9, 2011 at 5:12 pm

   Didn’t they just make this free to play to try and suck a bit more life out of it? In the case the decrease in paying suckers.. I mean members would be even more dramatic

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   1. 

      NegativeZero

      November 9, 2011 at 5:30 pm

      It’s not free to play. Not really. You’re free to play until level 20, but you can’t do a lot of things, eg you can’t access the auction house, can’t start a group and are barred from the chat channels. Effectively it’s their old 14 day trial, but with a level cap and no time limit. Completely different from the other MMOs that have gone free to play.

      WoW is still raking in millions of dollars in subscriptions. It’d be impossible to convince shareholders in Actiblizzion that completely killing off that revenue stream is a good idea. The game will go free to play (or freemium as they call it now) eventually, but I can’t see it happening until at least after their next MMO is out.

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4. 

   Cannon

   November 9, 2011 at 5:35 pm

   They say alot of ot was from China (the sub lose) makes me wonder if it also had any coincidence to do with MoP and how alot of them felt about that

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5. 

   James

   November 9, 2011 at 5:40 pm

   Eh, I think Blizzard will on-up themselves when they release “Worlds of Starcraft”

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6. 

   moloko

   November 9, 2011 at 5:53 pm

   The Pandas will kill it.

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7. 

   Ynefel

   November 9, 2011 at 6:53 pm

   And not a single fug was given that day.

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8. 

   Edward

   November 9, 2011 at 7:13 pm

   I resubbed with the 12 month thing, largely due to the fact that the Aussie Dollar is above parity with the US its only going to cost around $120 for the whole 12 months; with the fact that I play it with my cousins for 2 or 3 months over summer ( which would be $30 or $45US at any rate) and getting Diablo 3 which will probably be $100AUD at release I think i’ve probably saved money.

   How much I acutally play after mid-january is debatable. But I think for Aussies its a pretty good deal.

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   1. 

      Virus__

      November 10, 2011 at 12:34 am

      Huh, 120 bucks for 12 months, damn wish I was paying that. Cheapest Blizzard offer is what 80 bucks for a 6 month sub at a time?

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9. 

   Robert

   November 9, 2011 at 7:14 pm

   Maybe because they introduced frickin PANDAS!

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10. 

    Neo-Kaiser

    November 9, 2011 at 7:45 pm

    If I had a decent computer I’d play the game.

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    1. 

       Chazz

       November 9, 2011 at 8:14 pm

       You don’t want to.

       The game is heavily balanced in favour of gear over skill and has been for 3 expansions now.

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    2. 

       Mr Waffle

       November 9, 2011 at 8:15 pm

       I was under the impression that one of the reasons it’s popular is that you don’t need a “decent” computer, it’ll run on a cardboard box with a computer screen drawn on with a marker…

       (Never played it myself, watched a raid being done a couple of times and wanted to hang myself with my own shoelaces)

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       1. 

          weresmurf

          November 9, 2011 at 10:36 pm

          A marker??? Lad you’re going high tech there… a crayon will suffice!!!

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11. 

    Pixel The Ferret Viking

    November 9, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    anything beyond Warcraft 2 is dead to me… DEAD-TO-ME…
    on the other hand, Warcraft 2 rocks

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    1. 

       Jake

       November 9, 2011 at 11:21 pm

       Warcraft 3 was good! But I have no idea why the series went from awesome pirates with naval battles and oil rigs, to medieval again all of a sudden… Warcraft 2 was just sooo much cooler than the stock standard setting of WC3.

       WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OIL RIGS!!!!!

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12. 

    warcroft

    November 9, 2011 at 9:05 pm

    I hadnt played for a good couple of years, so I resigned up earlier this year.
    Although Blizz were saying 10 million(?) players most of the time I felt like I was the only one in the server.
    So I re-cancelled again a couple of weeks later.

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13. 

    Doraiya

    November 9, 2011 at 10:26 pm

    The problem with wow at the moment is that it doesn’t know weather it should be catering to hardcore or casual players. Burning Crusade struck the perfect balance, with a progression of difficulty that required players to improve in order to advance, and the boss encounters weren’t as cheap as they were before the expansion.

    Wrath of the lich king was the beginning of the push towards casual players that would eventually ruin too much of the games progression. Even total idiots could get great equipment by just playing easy content repetitively rather than through organized raiding. Despite Cataclysm’s attempt to Correct this balance, too many aspects that ruined the game where still present despite the drastic changes the last expansion brought in.

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14. 

    Thorbjørn

    November 9, 2011 at 10:31 pm

    My guess is that WoW will be dominant until “Titan” is released.

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15. 

    Lillee

    November 10, 2011 at 11:31 am

    I have to admit, as much as I hate the game with every fibre of my being (having it suck a year out of my life), it is a very good game. The next Blizzard incarnation of MMORG will be EPIC…

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