WoW loses 800K subscribers, Blizzard hangs hopes on panda-filled future
With over🃏 10 million subscribers left, WoW is far ꧅from doomed
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…
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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.