World of Warcraft going nowhere fast

Published on 12-02-10 at 11:58 AM AEST by

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It seems the glory days of World of Warcraft's growth are well and truly behind us. Perhaps soon enough there'll be genuine room for a contender - which might just be whatever the next MMO Blizzard is working on. In December of 2008, the game had 11.5 million subscribers. Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime paints a picture of stagnation, telling that today’s numbers are virtually unchanged...

Even more surprising is that Morhaime also notes that 70 per cent of World of Warcraft players fail to progress past level 10 in the game. The forthcoming Cataclysm expansion better have a rabbit in its hat, otherwise we'll no doubt see the first user-base contraction of the massively popular, massively multiplayer title.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/02/mos...-level-10-wow/ [Kotaku]

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Tags: blizzard, mmo, rpg, world of warcraft

5 Comments

Lothar - 12-02-10, 08:17 PM
You really have no idea do you rec....

NewbiTLorD - 12-02-10, 08:58 PM
World of Warcraft is crashing down, its such a pathetic game now lol

The Happy Devil - 13-02-10, 08:54 AM
i havent played for a bit but if i have to get back on a MMorpg it will be for the starwars:OR when that comes out.

HeReTiC - 13-02-10, 09:34 AM
the game is still earning $172 MILLION DOLLARS A MONTH. and because there is no growth its all going to explode? who cares if there is no growth, if half of everyone playing quit at once they would still be making an absolute assload of money.