World of Warcraft's Subscriber Numbers and Trends From 2016 to 2024 Revealed
World of Warcraft's Subscriber Numbers and Trends From 2016 to 2024 Revealed
Some big news came in over the weekend, as we got to see how subscriber numbers have been changing over the last 8 years! The data comes from a Games Developer Conference (GDC) presentation by Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Warcraft franchise John Hight, summarized on Korean sit...
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Estimat 5 million players at 15 a month for subscription that's 75 million monthly 900 million yearly. Idk how the game runs, idk if there are a lot of microtransactions nor do i know how much the expansions are. But alone at nearly a billion per year wow is a huge success. When they bring it over to consoles and have another surge in profits microsoft will be all smiles.
I used to play WoW back in the days and am mildly interested in the game development afterwards, but somewhere I read that currently some players are able to buy in game time with their game money, so I presume not everyone is actually paying this price. And their most dedicated hard-core players are probably not paying it either.
In reality I don't know how easy it is and probably casual players are mostly paying subscribers but even back then the game was plagued by a lot of micro transactions.
Additionally we don't know how much it costs Blizzard to support the servers and run them, as they run a lot of them for sure.
You can buy wow tokens with in-game gold, however the tokens are 'created' by someone buying one with real money to sell for in-game gold.
So all the wow subs purchased with gold were actually paid for by someone else.
And its $20 instead of $15. So its actually MORE money for blizz to buy via in game gold
I haven't really played mmos since around 2010. But as far as i know, there was always pay for gold and items for sell. It was waay more sketchy though. I played wow and a bunch other when i was a teen. I played with my older sister, and she paid for shit in every game we played. Underground selling had been a thing since the beginning of online games. Btw microtransactions have stolen money from farmers and botters that sold items and gold for profit.