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Re:With World of Warcraft fading, what will Blizzard do next? by rbii on Thursday March 22, 2012 @01:22PM (#3740833)
10.2 is the lowest it's ever been. Usually the numbers rise and fall depending on what other games are released -- every time a big-title MMO comes out, WoW generally loses 1-2 million players to it (and then they come back).

If the figure stays around 10 mil (i.e. if SWTOR keeps them), I guess that'll be 'proof' that WoW is fading.

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Re:With World of Warcraft fading, what will Blizzard do next? by neworbit on Thursday March 22, 2012 @04:12PM (#3741687)
Surely you don't mean "ever been"? I don't know how long it took them to get to ten million players in the first place but I'm imagining it wasn't on day one :)

And semantic point aside, ten million users is still mighty impressive!

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Re:With World of Warcraft fading, what will Blizzard do next? by kbutler on Thursday March 22, 2012 @04:36PM (#3741855)
Looks like 2005-2008 to get 10 million users: http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/Subs-1.png (from http://mmodata.blogspot.com/)
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Re:With World of Warcraft fading, what will Blizzard do next? by duaneb on Thursday March 22, 2012 @03:54PM (#3741603)
Fading is, of course, very relative. A "fading" wow is still extremely strong.
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