New : Force Secret - Hydian Way - Star Wars: The Old Republic - Guild Hosting - Gamer Launch

Login

Use Your Gamer Launch Account
Your account from any Gamer Launch site is valid here.

Facebook Connect

If you already have a Gamer Launch account connect your Facebook account on your user profile first before using Facebook connect to login. Otherwise you may end up with a new account.

Create An Account
Forgot Password

Login or Register

Site Inactive

This Site is Inactive

This site has been marked as inactive because no members have logged in recently.

Membership

Server Status

Hydian Way Server info was not found.

Who's Online

None

Search TORHead

User Recognition

Birthdays

donpavou

Apr. 19th

Polls

Which day you can For Karraga‘s palace op?

Monday after 6 gmt (4/12)

Thuesday after 6 gmt (3/12)

Wensday after 6 gmt (5/12)

Thursday after 6 gmt (4/12)

Friday after 6 gmt (4/12)

Saturday after 6 gmt (6/12)

Light & Dark Status

4500

2525

Forums

Force Secret Forum Index -> News

Username

<table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr><td><span class="genmed"><b>Dead_Serious wrote:</b></span></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">Look, World of Warcraft still boasts a bigger population than some small countries. But there's been some shrinkage in recent months. Could the Force be a reason for the dip in subscribers?<br />
 <br />
Blizzard's finally saying that it might be. After previously making vague statments that intimated the launch of the EA/BioWare massive multiplayer game barely affected them, Senior WoW producer John Lagrave tells Eurogamer that a drop from 11.1 million to 10.3 million over three months might be "attributable" to The Old Republic.<br />
 <br />
<br />
"Of course people are trying Star Wars - our development team are trying Star Wars! I'm one of the few people who's still playing it actually, but yeah we've seen a dip in subs. It certainly has to at least be attributable to The Old Republic, but it's also attributable to people who want to wait and get Mists of Pandaria, so it's not surprising."<br />
 <br />
Lagrave also waves off any speculation that WoW will be switch to a full free-to-play model anytime soon but says that Blizzard may extend the free trial to a higher level in the future.</td></tr></table><p></p>

Options

BBCode is ON
Smilies are ON

	Disable BBCode in this post
	Disable Smilies in this post

Human Verification

Second Human Verification
Please answer this question:

What is 14 + 2?

Note: All BBCode is disabled for Guest Posters. Link & Image URLs are not removed,
but images will not be embedded nor links activated.

All times are GMT - 6 Hours

Author

Message

Dead_Serious

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 16:38:35 Post subject: news from Blizzard

Look, World of Warcraft still boasts a bigger population than some small countries. But there's been some shrinkage in recent months. Could the Force be a reason for the dip in subscribers? Blizzard's finally saying that it might be. After previously making vague statments that intimated the launch of the EA/BioWare massive multiplayer game barely affected them, Senior WoW producer John Lagrave tells Eurogamer that a drop from 11.1 million to 10.3 million over three months might be "attributable" to The Old Republic. "Of course people are trying Star Wars - our development team are trying Star Wars! I'm one of the few people who's still playing it actually, but yeah we've seen a dip in subs. It certainly has to at least be attributable to The Old Republic, but it's also attributable to people who want to wait and get Mists of Pandaria, so it's not surprising." Lagrave also waves off any speculation that WoW will be switch to a full free-to-play model anytime soon but says that Blizzard may extend the free trial to a higher level in the future.

Last Forum Posts

Dragon's Prophet

by Mrider2
3824 days ago 0 Replies

~

by Dead_Serious
4366 days ago 0 Replies

still

by Dead_Serious
4379 days ago 0 Replies

free for few

by Dead_Serious
4390 days ago 0 Replies

Pricey Malgus

by Dead_Serious
4404 days ago 0 Replies