If you want to progress beyond that and unlock various other aspects of the MMO, you'll need to buy the game and pay a monthly fee. Single-player game Skyrim didn't cause "a sub drop", Lagrave said, "but people definitely did that as well as WOW".īlizzard offers a completely free World of Warcraft trial up to player level 20. "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." John Lagrave, senior producer, World of Warcraft We don't have a lock on all the best games in the world - Skyrim was an amazing game." 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. "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. "Hey guys, I think I'm going to try a Sith Inquisitor for a while." "We certainly do look at, and we have a very smart bunch of guys who do our analytics for us," said senior World of Warcraft producer John Lagrave.
Blizzard hasn't released any World of Warcraft numbers since SWTOR's launch, but has announced 600 redundancies as well as an aggressive Scroll of Resurrection campaign to re-enlist lapsed WOW subscribers. Star Wars: The Old Republic launched in late December 2011. A year earlier, monthly subscribers peaked at 12 million.
There were 10.3 million WOW subscribers in November 2011. The dip in World of Warcraft subscriber numbers "has to at least be attributable to The Old Republic", Blizzard acknowledged, speaking to Eurogamer last week.
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