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Originally Posted by Mr Hat and Clogs
The majority of those 1.3 million subs were in china, where they barely pay anything compared to the west. Even so, the game still has 8 million or so, if you believe Blizzard - that still beats its nearest competitor into the dirt by a long way.
Also, if Blizzard ever did make WoW F2P, with a cash shop, which they have somewhat toyed with ( see the mounts and pets which rake them in truckloads) and I hope they don't fuck it up if they do, like EA did with TOR, than I think you'd find a lot of people go back to WoW that migrated to F2P games.
GW2 did have a mass drop in its player base, according to an article I read a while back (on the Escapist? I can't remember). |
People need to understand finance. Some MMOs can live with 500,000 subs if they are on 3 servers. Some MMOs can lose money if they put 10,000,000 people on 2,000 servers. If Blizzard built their servers to support 12 million players and suddenly it went down to 8 million, it need to to cut 20-33% of its support to match.
If not, they start losing money.