Take it easy on the Nerfing :/

[Magis]

You do know that WoW isn't Activision Blizzard's only game, right?

ACTIVISION BLIZZARD ANNOUNCES BETTER‐THAN‐EXPECTED FIRST QUARTER 2015 FINANCIAL RESULTS http://files.shareholder.com/downloa...ss_Release.pdf

So if you ask me, I think Blizzard is doing quite alright even though their MMO lost 3 million subs in 3 months.

What the hell does that have to do with how well WORLD OF WARCRAFT is doing? You are going off a tangent. How well Activision-Blizzard's other games sell has nothing to do with WoW's design and it's effect on subscriptions. It's like if you all of a sudden started talking about FFXV when we are talking about the MMO we play here: FFXIV.

To reiterate, your original point was "extreme catering to casuals" did WoW well, when in fact THAT IS NOT THE CASE.

[kpxmanifesto]

What the hell does that have to do with how well WORLD OF WARCRAFT is doing? You are going off a tangent. How well Activision-Blizzard's other games sell has nothing to do with WoW's design and it's effect on subscriptions. It's like if you all of a sudden started talking about FFXV when we are talking about the MMO we play here: FFXIV.

It was you who decided to bring up Blizzard, as a company, taking a hit. If you ask me, I'm only responding to just that:

They have done worse. Lucky for Blizzard they had made the right steps in the beginning and could take the hit

You went off on a tangent. I only went with it.

[Magis]

It was you who decided to bring up Blizzard, as a company, taking a hit. If you ask me, I'm only responding to just that:



You went off on a tangent. I only went with it.

Rereading, I worded it wrongly: "Lucky for WoW (made by Blizzard) they had made the right steps in the beginning and could take the hit (in subscription numbers), not so much other smaller MMOs."

Halving of 12mil players is less threatening to an MMO than halving of the 500k FFXIV has (or had since January). However that isn't "doing well" by any stretch, and they should have designed the game around what gained their subscriptions, not lose them for the past years.

[kpxmanifesto]

Halving of 12mil players is less threatening to an MMO than halving of the 500k FFXIV has (or had since January). However that isn't "doing well" by any stretch, and they should have designed the game around what gained their subscriptions, not lose them for the past years.

We're seeing this from different points of view. From your point of view, they lost nearly 50% of their sub base which is indeed troubling. From my point of view, even though they lost so many subs, at 7 million subs they're still the world's leading MMO which is why I view and still maintain that they are doing quite well.

But I will admit this. If that trend of losing 1 million subscribers per month keeps up, then yes, they will be in trouble.