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croaks35 Posts: 45
Registered: 2009-7-20 22:26:57
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Fedup23  Posts: 358
Registered: 2006-7-14 06:15:32
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Wait.. subscriptions are dropping!?  Wow, thanks for the heads up! |
JaconKin  Posts: 186
Registered: 2007-1-16 18:00:40
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Some of the most notable spin I have ever seen.
Blizzard president Michael Morhaime said that the decline -- now in its second quarter -- is to be expected after the release of a major expansion like December's Cataclysm, saying that "what we have seen is that subscribership tends to be seasonal and driven by content updates."
"As our players have become more experienced playing World of Warcraft over many years, they have become much better and much faster at consuming content," he said at the time. "And so I think with Cataclysm they were able to consume the content faster than with previous expansions, but that's why we're working on developing more content."
I think before Wraths release sub numbers were at 9-10 million, and each quarter or so reports of it reaching another million during Wraths run was normal, reaching the 12+ mill mark before Cata released.
As far as players consuming content quicker, I guess he is just talking about the top end world first guilds here, unlike Wrath half the player base didn't want to spend hours to consume the content. 
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Trigeminal Title: Drill, Fill, Bill
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Registered: 2002-3-17 20:10:56
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Most game companies would die to have 10ish million paying subscribers and they'd put competent people in charge... most.
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Yea both my alliance and horde guilds have just given up on wow and at this point have given up on MMOs. Guess we'll see what happens next.
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JaconKin posted:
Some of the most notable spin I have ever seen.
Blizzard president Michael Morhaime said that the decline -- now in its second quarter -- is to be expected after the release of a major expansion like December's Cataclysm, saying that "what we have seen is that subscribership tends to be seasonal and driven by content updates."
"As our players have become more experienced playing World of Warcraft over many years, they have become much better and much faster at consuming content," he said at the time. "And so I think with Cataclysm they were able to consume the content faster than with previous expansions, but that's why we're working on developing more content."
I think before Wraths release sub numbers were at 9-10 million, and each quarter or so reports of it reaching another million during Wraths run was normal, reaching the 12+ mill mark before Cata released.
As far as players consuming content quicker, I guess he is just talking about the top end world first guilds here, unlike Wrath half the player base didn't want to spend hours to consume the content.
Nahh, hes just trying to cover his ass, and explain away the loss of a million subs with the implementation of GC's "vision".
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The_Korrigan  Title: Scrub Buster
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Registered: 2001-7-17 03:51:32
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Oh no! They "only" have 11.1 milion players left... they are doomed! The end is near!
All other western MMO developers would be ready to make a pact with the devil himself to have even just 25% of that playerbase 
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kuide Posts: 106
Registered: 2004-11-1 08:23:04
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They are not western subs,they are mainly asian subs.Europe would be less than 1 million in my opinion,no idea about american subs.
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kuide posted:
They are not western subs,they are mainly asian subs.Europe would be less than 1 million in my opinion,no idea about american subs.
No, they're Western subs. Blizzard cites as much, since this is in relation to Cataclysm subs. Asia just got it, like a few weeks ago.
I personally expect the attrition to drop off to about 100k a quarter until thier next expansion. But the most of players lost are probably gone for good.
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The_Korrigan posted:
Oh no! They "only" have 11.1 milion players left... they are doomed! The end is near!
All other western MMO developers would be ready to make a pact with the devil himself to have even just 25% of that playerbase
Yah, I mean, its only a loss of 15 million a month...
No one ever misses that kind of cash..ever.
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