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Mists of Pandaria Pushes World Of Warcraft Subs Over 10M

by Jim Reilly on October 04, 2012 at 11:03 AM

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The recent launch of World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria has given subscriptions a boost with Blizzard seeing 2.7 million copies sold in the first week. Total World of Warcraft subscribers have passed 10 million again in all regions. In August, Blizzard reported subscriptions for the game declined to 9.1 million. Last year at this time, subscriptions were at 11.4 million.

"It's been gratifying to see the results of all of the work we put into this expansion and to hear all of the positive feedback from players so far," said Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime.

Blizzard said the World of Warcraft development team is already working on the first major post-launch content update.

Filed under: News, Blizzard, world of warcraft, Mists of Pandaria

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by manbearpig894 Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 11:09 AM

By 2015 this game will just be a shadow of it's former self. There's no way they can keep up the huge subscriber base much longer.
by BoilerBash Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 11:15 AM

Inevitably it too shall fall.
by The Doctor Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 11:16 AM

Cue the guy saying that WoW is dying and it will never survive...

EDIT: Darn, he beat me to it.
by Warrior Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 11:16 AM

Hahahahahah!! Nice. Good for WOW :D But you will never see me playing a WOW game. It doesn't interest me.
by Ciyrus Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 11:18 AM

Wow! I honestly didn't expect that. the subscriber base was just dropping and dropping and dropping, and then this?! WoW will probably hover at that mark for a good while.
by Jonozilla Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 11:19 AM

We'll see what happens in a month when the code from Pandaria runs out
by The Murph Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 11:24 AM

Has anyone else noticed this involves a fighting panda? (head scratch)
by siegeoflight Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 11:27 AM

Well, they are building a new MMO... So, I guess that means WoW2 will be in production in about 2 years. However, I don't think that it is going to be as successful as WoW is.
by SanXtioN Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 11:28 AM

stahp
by Just_Rob Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 11:40 AM

When I played WOW, I missed the whole gameplay aspect I get from other games like combos and stuff. That's why I only played it for a week and got bored of it.
by MERCzilla Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 11:51 AM

WoW was an awesome experience when i first started it then it got to watered down GW2 is a good change from the norm but console season is starting so none of this really matters to me..lol
by Raodin Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 12:08 PM

Honestly if any of you have ever been interested in WoW, now would be the time to try it. The expansion is amazing.
by Lyme047 Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 12:15 PM

I wonder how many of those subs are from children that stopped playing a while back... but forgot to tell their parents to cancel it.
by Bozzie Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 12:16 PM

Gross....
by Samwel93 Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 12:21 PM

Woah pandas didn't kill WoW its almost like all the people who bashed MoP never played the beta or figured anything about the xpac besides that pandas
by JealousOfCrows Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 12:36 PM

It just looks stupid....
by Frankdaddy Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 01:33 PM

people love pandas?
by DukeofChutney Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 01:53 PM

And in a month they will drop again, and probably farther.
by Mr_Tib Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 02:02 PM

I lost all interest in WoW right before Cataclysm and never looked back.
by slapmyhed Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 02:25 PM

I'm one of those people who helped boost the number. There's a lot of good stuff in MoP.

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