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World of warcraft subscription numbers3/31/2023 ![]() To almost nearly double that number with 12 million subscribers at the height of Wrath of the Lich King. A miracle even.Īnd the numbers continued to grow. I'm sure back in 2006 7 million subscribers was unheard of. One interesting we see from the graph is that the last time World of Warcraft had as few as 7.7 million subscribers was in 2006 right at the end of Vanilla. Perhaps Blizzard sees this type of decline coming and that's the reason they are working to move to, if not a full-on free-to-play model, at least a subscriber + additional pet/mount/helmet revenue model. It seems something has to change if Blizzard want to regain (or even retain at this point) its subscribers. I'm not so naive to think that a simple bit of math can predict that WoW will be down to 1M subscribers by the end of 2015 but who knows. I also did a bit of math to give an idea where the number could be heading if roughly the same average subscriber losses from Q3 2012 until now continued into the future (the gray area on the right). I simply continued what numbers there were across the gaps.) (The gray areas inside the Wrath of the Lich King are numbers that were absent from the data. I used the same data source as cat_trap for the 2005-2013 ![]() Read on past the jump for more on the graph. I loved the idea of the graphic and decided to add my own graphic style. I came across this graphic made by redditor cat_trap who commented on this reddit thread related to the announcement. Unfortunately, unless Blizzard changes its stance on providing numbers, this all remains pure speculation.With the recent news that Activision Blizzard is buying back a controlling interest from Vivendi it was also made known that the current World of Warcraft world wide subscriber number is 7.7 million. But that would still be an incredible amount of growth in a short amount of time. It was around the time of Cataclysm’s release that World of Warcraft hit its all-time high of over 12 million subscribers, so in that sense it’s not unbelievable that the game could be back above 10 million. The company also said that it had reached a number of concurrent users logged on that it had not seen since the Cataclysm days. At the time, Blizzard said the expansion had sold 3.3 million copies by launch day, tying it with the franchise record set by 2010’s Catacylsm expansion. While Blizzard won’t talk specifics on subscriber numbers, it did share some impressive stats last month to boast about Legion’s launch. "Our policy for almost a year now is that we do not talk about subscriber numbers, and Tom did not do that with this publication," a Blizzard representative told Polygon. Polygon reached out to Blizzard directly this afternoon to confirm the number, and the publisher revealed that it "was a misquote or some kind of misunderstanding on the part of the journalist." Blizzard neither confirmed nor denied whether 10.1 million is the actual subscriber number at the moment but simply reiterated that it’s not planning to provide subscriber numbers any more. Great news, right? Except apparently it’s not a legitimate number. There are plenty of potential takers and there are over 100 million World of Warcraft accounts." We have an internal competitor, Overwatch, but it’s possible it’ll get even higher than 12 million. You know, it’s difficult to say what the future will bring. Here’s the quote, as translated by NeoGAF user Lashman: In the Pixel interview, World of Warcraft game designer Tom Chilton supposedly revealed for the first time that Legion has boosted subscriptions to 10.1 million. Just under a year ago, in November 2015, Blizzard reported that World of Warcraft subscription numbers had dropped to 5.5 million and that the company would no longer be providing subscriber numbers. This would be a massive bounce-back for the game. ![]() According to an interview with Polish gaming magazine Pixel (as reported and translated by a poster on the NeoGAF forums), Blizzard’s MMO has shot back past 10 million subscribers following the launch of its latest expansion, Legion. Earlier today, a surprising report about World of Warcraft hit the internet.
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