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> Subscription figures have fallen from 12 million just after the release of the last expansion to 10.2 million That's probably a cycle that follows every expa
by ketralnis 15y ago
> Subscription figures have fallen from 12 million just after the release of the last expansion to 10.2 million
That's probably a cycle that follows every expansion: all of the old players come back, play it, get bored again and leave. I'm not sure this is evidence that it's "fading"
But they've already announced their next game, Diablo III, and they tend to only have a few games in their peak at a time anyway, so we know what they're doing next because they've told us.
- rbii 15y ago10.2 is the lowest it's ever been. Usually the numbers rise and fall depending on what other games are released -- every time a big-title MMO comes out, WoW generally loses 1-2 million players to it (and then they come back). If the figure stays around 10 mil (i.e. if SWTOR keeps them), I guess that'll be 'proof' that WoW is fading.
- duaneb 15y agoFading is, of course, very relative. A "fading" wow is still extremely strong.
- neworbit 15y agoSurely you don't mean "ever been"? I don't know how long it took them to get to ten million players in the first place but I'm imagining it wasn't on day one :) And semantic point aside, ten million users is still mighty impressive!
- kbutler 15y agoLooks like 2005-2008 to get 10 million users: http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/Subs-1.png http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/Subs-1.png (from http://mmodata.blogspot.com/ http://mmodata.blogspot.com/)