World of Warcraft surpasses 10M subscribers once again

Filbur · October 2016

Found this on neogaf:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1289030

"From an interview with Tom Chilton in the Polish magazine "Pixel"."

You peaked at 12m users. At the end of 2015 it was only 5.5m and then Blizzard just stopped releasing the statistics. Could you tell me approximately how many users are paid subscribers right now?

Currently, it's around 10.1m. You know, it's difficult to say what the future will bring. We have an internal competitor - Overwatch but it's possible it'll get even higher than 12mil. There are plenty of potential takers and there are over 100mil WoW accounts.

Forgrimm · October 2016

Still waiting for a more official source. The fact that the only reference to it was from an article in some Polish magazine is a little odd.

Soki123 · October 2016

Shocking, best game always brings them back.

Hawkster · October 2016

Wait til the shine wears off Legion (which, from what I hear is happening) then see what the numbers look like.

Soki123 · October 2016

Just like every game? no shit

Soki123 · October 2016

will still trump anything on the market.

MadFrenchie · October 2016

Soki123 said:

will still trump anything on the market.

I feel like that's an insult in America these days. /zing

Soki123 · October 2016

MadFrenchie said:

Soki123 said:

will still trump anything on the market.

I feel like that's an insult in America these days. /zing

Ya, I ll agree, trump , ugh, what a mess of a possible president.

filmoret · October 2016

They only make enough money for 3-4 mil subscribers.

blueturtle13 · October 2016

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.

"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.

http://www.polygon.com/2016/10/4/13167592/world-of-warcraft-legion-subscriber-numbers-10-million