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Talehon69  Title: Anonymous Entity
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They don't do subscription numbers based on Region anymore, but when they did China was over 1/3rd the subscription base alone.
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im not quite certain why that dude was using the word "concurrent" as opposed to the word, "current"
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Auenwing Title: straightface
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Rill_of_WE posted:
 This thread is fun!
The only thing I'm going to comment on in this thread is the awesomeness of Colbert!
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Thanks for that! 
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Azure-TheBlueOne  Title: Made in Alaska
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For comparison, I believe WoW was around 10m when tBC released (35%), and was around 11m before WoTLK (36%).
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Grats to Blizzard and their investors!
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kyrv Title: Lord Logicus
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Registered: 2002-1-31 13:09:58
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GutterSludge posted:
kyrv posted:
GutterSludge posted:
So, 4.7 million boxes, sold to 12 million subscribers....
Less than half of the sub holders bought the expac??
Why does that look more like fail than success?
I'm not sure how the subs work out and is the expansion out in the far east yet? Also not everyone will necessarily buy it immediately.
Just throwing stuff out, it is a valid question. That is a lot of sales though. Much money.
From the post above:
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm was simultaneously released in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Europe, Russia, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand on December 7, and became available in Korea and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau on December 9.
Gracias - so this excludes China, probably? They have the largest subs or maybe second to USA?
Also people that use game rooms are counted and they don't have to spend $15 I know people like to multiply WoW subs by 15.
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kyrv Title: Lord Logicus
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siujoey posted:
Burning Crusade sold 3.5M in it's first month. WotLK sold "over 4 million" in it's first month, which broke the record held by BC. Cataclysm sold 4.7M plus in it's first month breaking the record held by WotLK.
By the way they worded the WotLK sales in the first month- "over 4M", I would guess the actual number is between 4 and 4.1M. If that is true, there was a bigger sales increase from WotLK to Cata, than there was from BC to WotLK.
Any way you want to look at it, those are some ridiculously impressive growth numbers for a what- 6 year old game? 6 year old games in this industry are the exception, not the norm. 6 year old games posting those kind of numbers aren't even the exception, they're unheard of.
Yes it is amazing they appear to be growing, just holding steady would be excellent for a six year old game.
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kyrv posted:
Yes it is amazing they appear to be growing, just holding steady would be excellent for a six year old game.
Initial box sales isn't a growth indicator, only overall box sales and retention rates. All initial box sales means is higher number of pre-orders than before.
Subscription numbers indicated WoW was in decline prior to releasing its expansion, and I will bet dollars to donuts will resume that decline once the shiny is become a little more worn, just as it did with WotLK, which in the end was a much better expansion in the first place.
Indeed, with the way WotLK ended, with everyone being handed all the goodies on a silver platter and with everyone having multiple L80s, how can anyone be surprised that Cata outsold WotLK off the start? Everyone was sitting around this time with nothing to do for months.
Context is everything. But some people are easily impressed.
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kyrv Title: Lord Logicus
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Broken_Kayfabe posted:
kyrv posted:
Yes it is amazing they appear to be growing, just holding steady would be excellent for a six year old game.
Initial box sales isn't a growth indicator, only overall box sales and retention rates. All initial box sales means is higher number of pre-orders than before.
Subscription numbers indicated WoW was in decline prior to releasing its expansion, and I will bet dollars to donuts will resume that decline once the shiny is become a little more worn, just as it did with WotLK, which in the end was a much better expansion in the first place.
Indeed, with the way WotLK ended, with everyone being handed all the goodies on a silver platter and with everyone having multiple L80s, how can anyone be surprised that Cata outsold WotLK off the start? Everyone was sitting around this time with nothing to do for months.
Context is everything. But some people are easily impressed.
They went from 10 to 11 to 12 million. Where are you getting the decline?
Yes CAT outsold wotlk, they set a record. Nobody has sold more. Setting this record with the decline in subs you mention is impressive.
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Well not to argue the point but there are a million subs between 11 million and 12 million.
Wasn't 12 million announced after cata release?
So if they went from 11.7 million to 11.5 million, that is still a decrease in 200,000 subs, then Cata is released and it jumps up again.
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