World of Warcraft lost three million subscribers in three months

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18 points·carlchenet··6 comments

This seems an incredible loss of subscribers(from 10M to 7M in 3 months) especially considering that didn't WoW just release a new expansion?

While there must have been some subscriber loss, my hunch is that Blizzard simply changed reporting on what they consider a subscriber (ie Internet Cafes in Asia and so on).

Could be that I am just biased against Business Insider stories.

It's the biggest/sharpest drop in WoW history. I used to go back to WoW once in a while, just to get back in a familiar surroundings, check out new content etc. But I've missed the last 2 expansions cause it is so different now. It's a completely different game, and it just moves further away from what a MMORPG is with each expansion.

I don't think calling it a MMO is even accurate anymore…

I think it's also because the WoW generation has now grown up. We don't have the time to commit to it any more. That and, despite a commendable effort to upgrade the game, it is showing its age obnoxiously.

What do you mean by that? By all accounts, it's still an MMO (heck, even with the subscriber loss, it's the most successful MMO out there).

Why is that? What would you consider it now?

Not entirely surprising, these things don't last forever.

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