Six-hundred thousand players unsubscribed within the first few months of Cataclysm release. I'd bet nearly all of them were avid PvPers. At the start of 2011 the subscriber count was around 11.4 million, quite a bit down from 12 million. The player base is slowly but surely declining.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
WOW dying...oh man don't make me laugh!
Blizzard just launched Cataclysm in China and Brazil! Not many Devs can say that!
When WOW is under 500K Subscribers then bring up the WOW dying articles but at over 11 million subscribers WOW is a CASH COW!!
When has 11 million subscribers mean that is dying?
Don't play WoW myself but I'd be ecstatic if I ran a service with over 11 million subscribers. I wonder how many of those 600k were long term members of just those who were on a free trial period or something.
The game still shits on every other MMO out there.(in terms of number of subscribers, i can't comment on quality since I only play F2P MMOs)