World of Warcraft subscriptions slip to 9.1 million

Well it was the tail end of an expansion when everyone knows what they are doing is ultimately pointless because a new expansion is right around the corner. Doesn't surprise me that people cancel there subs.  Still 9.1 million active players dwarfs everything else out there by 4-5 times. Even if they lose 1 million subs every year the game would probably still be profitable until the start of the next decade ;p Blizzard's gonna milk that cow until they bleed off damn near every last one of those subs. As much hate as WoW gets the game was once quite spectacular during the BC days. At least that's the last time I didn't feel like logging in was a chore. It's to bad blizzard pushed me away with all there dumb choices. Some of the most fun I've had gaming was just running raids in BC with a couple RL friends and are guild.

Looking forward to Blizzard being taken down a few notches, they created the horror they named Diablo 3 (a massive fail in my opinion). They destroyed WoW and turned it into a game suited for 10 year olds. I will enjoy seeing other better companies rise up and take their rightful places at the top of the ladder and leave the failure that is Blizz to dwell in it's misery.

i'm not surprised when blizzards battle.net was comprimised oh didnt they let everyone know untill this year a 4 year in the know and they didnt inform everyone how odd.

Any game in between expansions is going to lose subscribers, because people get bored waiting for new content. 

Who cares...

They are still doing good, but they are slowing falling

The media always takes subscriber numbers of WoW out of context. Every single time before another expansion for WoW, the subscription numbers drop because there is a 10 month lack of content for the game and people get bored so go play (and spend their money on) something else in the meantime. Blizzard knows this, as does anybody who has ever played the game for longer than a month, but the media chooses to ignore this so it can send out a sensationalistic news headlines from which uninformed people draw skewed opinions that somehow the game is falling in to an abyss.

I'm looking at u @Unholy123

9.1M subscribers still. Boo-hoo? There are studios that wish they had just 1M paid subscribers. How is this news? Let me guess the next headline....

"World of Warcraft subscriptions slip to 8.1 million".

(Yes, all I did was change 9.1 to 8.1)

ima unsubing as soon as my contract is up for diablo 3

maybe wow subscriptions are dropping because wow players don't want to play with pandas running around the "world of warcraft"

In other news, Bill Gates daily income "slips" to under $1 billion dollars...

thats still 1.6 billion dollars a year

To most companies having an aging MMO lose sub's is normal and not a big deal but with Acti/Blizz its HUGE as they built their entire companies image on the profits of this one game "Look were a multibillion dollar successful company we can't fail... until this one game runs out then our bottom lines looks like crap"

At the end of the day we will see Acti/Blizz do whatever they can to stop the drop because wow is tied so close to their bottom line they have attached themselves to an anchor thats sinking and can do nothing but try and make it buoyant again.

MoP loooks really lame, so I do not plan on returning to Azeroth for this expansion.  I am actually surprised they still have over 9 million paying subscribers.   I am guessing the majority of players are in Asia, at least from the anecdotal evidence of none of my friends play it any more.

I know there's a lot of hate for Blizzard right now, but people, ask yourselves this one question. What are they doing WRONG, to ONLY have 9.1 million subscriptions? Yes, I count myself among those no longer playing WoW. But that doesn't mean I turned against it completely. I just moved on to different games. I don't know a game company in existence, that wouldn't like to be doing something so right, as to have 9.1 million of....ANYTHING per month. Subscriptions, titles sold in a year, DOLLARS a month.

This happens because they don't know how to realease their content, just take now Dragon Soul as an example, you hit lvl 85 and you can go directly to the last raid available on the game, you can cheat the ilvl by going in the AH and buy the crafted gear, you can even kill deathwing on the first 2 days in LFR, as an idea LFR is good but is poorly implemented because it spoils the game, you go to the normal and HC modes and the instance feels less epic and fun, makes other raiding tiers obsolete and makes you bored to play a braindead version of the actual raid, because is mandatory if you want ot progress in normal and HC modes, the worst part is how the gear on LFR is even better than Firelands, The " everyone must see the content" argument by blizzard is total bullshit because people just go there to get epics and they don't care about learning the game, blizz simply don't know how to realease content now, and they blame Diablo 3 because of the Sub loss? please........

This company has it all, but fails to let go of old exclusives such as COD,wow,diablo,sc2. I think if they focused full force on newer titles/characters and through out the older ones they would hit skyrocket again. Although a world of diablo, using our exsisting lvl 60 characters in wow 3D like graphics and a lvl cap of 150 would be awesome =)

So Warcraft 4 anytime Blizzard?

Even the 9 million number is hugely inflated, someone said cosidering in Asia they pay hourly and if you played even an hour a month that's considered a sub.

and most of the 9m are in Asia

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that's likely the reason they came up wit hthe whole Pandaren thing.

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The lousiest thing is how Wow justified 15$ subs to other publishers, when that's not the way of the future nor is excused by those small upkeep costs

oh no... only 9 million what ever will they do .

This is FFXIV karma lol :P

Not surprising why Vivendi wants to sell Activision Blizz. Better get rid of them before they become unprofitable.

Still, I wonder how well MoP will do....

"Sorry, Male red pandarens won't have a tail." -Blizzard

Okay, MoP will fail.

It's amazing to think that even if WoW keeps dropping 1 million subs every 6 months (which is doubtful), they've still got almost 5 years left before it actually dies.

I'm not surprised by the drop in WoW especially since Diablo 3 got released. Still, I don't think there is any other MMO out there right now with 9 million subscribers. That's 9000000 x $15 every month. $135 million a month times 12. lol!! Activision and Blizzard are not hurting for fund, that's for sure.