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Forums - Sales - Activision Q2 2014 results... World of Warcraft down to 6.8 million subs... Dooooomm

Wow, that's a big drop.



    

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WoW should have dies two or three years ago.



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Its about 10 years old, the decline isn't that surprising.

There is also a ton of competition.



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I find it impressive that is has still like 60% of the highest player count WoW ever had. I mean, it would be probably even at 75% with a new expansion and that like 10 years after release. All these F2P MMOs especially in China and it has still 6.8 million players...



VanceIX said:
WoW should have dies two or three years ago.





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Because Minecraft is the new WoW. And League.



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I never liked WoW much, but why are you guys hating on it? :(



Wright said:

I never liked WoW much, but why are you guys hating on it? :(

It's not so much that it's a bad game, it's just that it's pretty much ancient in terms of everything and is holding back the entire MMO genre. Everyone is on WoW, so the newer, more modern MMOs tend to get overlooked.



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Its the WoW end of expansion lull, of course it lost subs. They come back once the expansion hits.

VanceIX said:
Wright said:

I never liked WoW much, but why are you guys hating on it? :(

It's not so much that it's a bad game, it's just that it's pretty much ancient in terms of everything and is holding back the entire MMO genre. Everyone is on WoW, so the newer, more modern MMOs tend to get overlooked.

The newer MMOS failled to top WoW, if they were realy good theyd have managed to take top spot from the king, wich is very old by now but is still a great game. Guild Wars 2 had some new ideas but executed quite a bit of them pretty badly, also had no end game content wich got ppl back to wow a couple months after its release. Swtor was kinda fun but also lacked end game and it was mostly a wow clone. FF XIV was atrocious at lounch, after the relauch it became a realy good game but theres nothing ground breaking there, and the damage was done already by the incredibly crappy first version of the game, itll is sucessfull and will remain so but it wont beat WoW.Wildstar has potential but it has a tone and a visual style that limits its chance for a broader sucess.

 

WoW just kept beeing WoW and nobody managed ot create somethign better, its not holding anything back its everyone else that cant top it.



Gonna keep going strong for at least 5 more years