WoW loses 800K subscribers, Blizzard hangs hopes on panda-filled future

Last October we heard the subscriber base of MMO juggernaut World of Warcraft had slipped some since its peak of 12 million players. In fact it 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史🧸查询:lost almost a million 💖users in less than a year. In the recent Activiꦓsion-Blizzard earnings call we found out that downward trend has only continued, as WoW lost another 800,000, bringing the total to a still monstrous 10.3 million. If Blizzard is wo🐷rried, they aren’t showing it, as the mega-developer believes the user base will expand again soon thanks to the magic of pandas…

In yesterday’s Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime blamed the slump on a lack of engaging casual content in the last expansion Cataclysm. That’s something the next one, Mist of Panderia, intends to fix, with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:plans for Pokemon-✃esque monster collecting and fuzzy, lovable Brewmasters. Also, there are other smaller updates coming along the way to keep the current install base happy. That’s all well and🌌 good, but what’s really annoying is they didn’t use this call to💯 finally confirm a true Diablo III release date. Sigh…

Henry Gilbert is a former GamesRadar+ Editor, having spent seven years at the site helping to navigate our readers through the PS3 and Xbox 360 generation. Henry is now following another passion 🦂of his besides video games, working as the produc✱er and podcast cohost of the popular Talking Simpsons and What a Cartoon podcasts.