World of Warcraft breaks over 100million players

[itsyoung!!]

I played WoW when it was bumping (when I was in college)...now I play LoL (although mostly I go to work now).

Yes, I'm comparing them because they are 2 of the most dominant PC games in the past 10 years. Being free is completely irrelevant and you can spend plenty of money on either game if you choose. WoW should have dropped the subscription before the Pandas got released, fatal mistake by Blizzard. They've been desperate since Arthas got merked and Diablo 3 didn't help their brand much because shyt's weak.

100 million is a misleading number. I played at the height and it was around 11 million. Chinese gold farmers probably make up a quarter of the accounts right now lol. At the same time though, I'd be lying if I said I didn't have fond memories from my WoW days. It was fun but I don't think I could ever go back.

so they should of stopped $150 million a month in revenue ...for what exact reason?

 

[Swamp-Thing]

so they should of stopped $150 million a month in revenue ...for what exact reason?

A chance at getting new players and keeping old ones. No?

 

[Liquid]

A chance at getting new players and keeping old ones. No?

Think about what you just said breh...

 

[Swamp-Thing]

They needed to create a new way to monetize it when $15/month became not worth it for 10 million players. They saw the ship sinking and fell victim to their own greed.

Wouldn't you have continued checking your account if it was free? There are other monetization models not just subscriptions.

 

[VladTheImpaler]

100 million players.. Yeah.. Cumulatively since the shyt started maybe

How many active players RIGHT NOW though

 

[duck]

Are you comparing League of Legends, a free game, to a game that requires $15 a month to play

World of Warcraft is the most profitable game in the history of video gaming, by a large margin



multiple MMOs have came out for consoles, they all have flopped. Every single one of them. The only one that might have some success will be Elder Scrolls Online coming out soon.

Multiple? Aside from final fantasy, dc universe and everyday on ps2... What else is there?

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

that old ass game got people bamboozled

 

[VladTheImpaler]

:uFurious: console stans?

I thought PC gaming was dying
I thought no one cares about PC exclusives


talking about Madden sold 5 million or something

 

[Anti-Anime]

And that's only from a 10 year old piece of shyt MMO, not counting all the free to plays.

 

[Lord Beasley]

i think the last time i played wow was 2011. they bout to drop another expansion on these nikkas heads too

Everyone knows those numbers are inflated, even the one's still playing. WoW has about 7million active subs and will stay there until the next expansion. IMO, ActiBlizz will keep milking it until they drop under 5mill, switch the a F2P format, and bang Titan out in 2016. That means 2 more expansions

 

[CoolazzFemale]

People play when a new expansion comes out then stop.
I don't know how they calculate the numbers. Especially with people that have 10 damn accounts.

 

[Spaceman Piff]

people really giving business advice to a company that got 7 million people paying 15 bucks a month for a ten year old game?

ok, make another wow

 

[itsyoung!!]

people really giving business advice to a company that got 7 million people paying 15 bucks a month for a ten year old game?

ok, make another wow

someone said they should go F2P