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The Queue: Always double down on Sacco
Joystiq by Mathew McCurley Apr 9th 2012 at 11:00AM Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mathew McCurley (@gomatgo) will be your host today. |
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World of Warcraft is going down in Europe… in price, that is
Joystiq by Eliot Lefebvre on Jan 6th 2012 7:00PM Reports of the demise of World of Warcraft have been greatly exaggerated, but the price of the game is falling. This isn't entirely unexpected, but the game's two more recent expansions have just seen a … |
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The Old Republic – An MMO that could take down WoW
Atomic In gaming reality, there's really only one intellectual property that could take an MMO-fuelled regicidal swipe at the Kingdom of WoW and that's Star Wars. Of course, this has been attempted in the past with Star Wars Galaxies, but that really didn't … Star Wars: The Old Republic – the Business in the Beta The Old Republic's Final Beta Weekend Had Up to 8 Hours' Queues New Star Wars: The Old Republic Trailer Features Jedi Consular |
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World of Warcraft Subscriber Numbers Down 7%
Botchweed Gaming (blog) World of Warcraft has long been the MMORPG that the rest of the industry is out to beat due to its absolutely massive success. It looks like it's not all plain sailing for the now 7 year old game. In an investor conference call the subscriber numbers … World of Warcraft user base continues to tumble Gamers tell us why World of Warcraft is losing subscribers Activision Shares Down Thanks to World of Warcraft Slide |
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Activision Shares Down Thanks to World of Warcraft Slide
Escapist Magazine Despite posting great financials for the quarter and the year, Activision's share value dropped more than six percent on news that World of Warcraft subscriptions continue to decline. Behold Activision, which is having a pretty good year. … Activision share price drops due to Warcraft's problems |
During today’s Activision-Blizzard investor call, it was announced that WoW has a total of 10.3 million players. This is down from the 11.4 million subscribers announced in March 2011. That means that 1.1 million players no longer play the game, or a decline of about 10%.
In the call, Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime said that the majority of the subscriber loss happened in the east. There was no mention of specific subscriber numbers in the United States. Blizzard also declined to provide a subscriber forecast.
It’s not uncommon to find these numbers rise and fall with the time during an expansion’s life cycle. It is entirely possible that the numbers will increase with the release of Mists of Pandaria.
WoW subscriber numbers down to 10.3 million players originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Age, Bullying May Finally Bring World Of Warcraft Down
Lez Get Real In the years since it was released, there have been many a claim by various people that particular games would derail or destroy World of Warcraft. Games such as Warhammer Online, and many names that are hard to even remember at this point were said to … |
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CRTC tells Rogers to stop slowing down the speed of online games
Montreal Gazette In a letter to the telecom giant, the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission said the company's own traffic management policy states that online games, such as World of Warcraft, should not be throttled or slowed down, and would only … Rogers asked to fix game throttling problem CRTC to Rogers: Fix Your Broken Throttling System Rogers Asked To Fix Game Throttling Problem |
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Will World of Warcraft Wind Down or Rise up Again?
Gnews With a steady stream of subscribers slipping away from the king of MMORPGs, will World of Warcraft continue to bleed out? Or will it experience a resurgence of interest any time soon? World of Warcraft, Blizzard's MMO of genuinely epic proportions, … The Queue: What do GMs do … |
Given all the recent hacking, could WoW be hacked? In an article posted today at Digital Spy, Lead Game Designer Tom Chilton replies that attempts have been made recently, but Blizzard came through unharmed.
While the question and answer doesn’t specifically say LulzSec or Anonymous, I think it’s safe to assume LulzSec is the group in question, given the recent high-profile attacks on U.S. government sites and other MMOs, like EVE Online.
Most of LulzSec’s work has been focused on DDoS attacks and breaking into servers to create “lulz.” During their most recent spree, rumors abounded that WoW was a target; however, nothing came of it. It would now appear nothing came of it thanks to Blizzard’s security measures.
Tom ChiltonWe have always tried to be as diligent as we possibly can when it comes to security. Certainly when hacking was going on with other companies recently there were numerous attempts against ourselves also. Fortunately, our security was good enough, so we didn’t lose data or anything like that.
We always put a high priority on security, but that’s not to say you can ever be impregnable. We’re not resting on our laurels saying ‘they can’t get us’. It’s always a possibility, and we take it very serious, but so far, so good.
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Hacker groups tried to take down WoW … and failed originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.