Recently Blizzard announced a subscription base of 11.5 million subscribers. It appears that 70% of them never make it past level 10. Does anyone else have a hard time believing this? Are they saying 70% of the characters don’t make it past level 10 or 70% of subscribers don’t level past 10? The former I can understand but the latter is just unbelievable…simply unbelievable. If you head to every city or zone and “/who 1-80″ and count how many sub-level 10 players you find (total) and compare it to how many 11-80 players you find (total) I highly doubt you’d ever find more than twice as many sub-level 10 than 11-80.
Maybe the sub-level 10 accounts just never get on anymore? Are you suggesting that people pay $15 per month, consistently, and not play at all? I have a hard time believing that. Perhaps it does happen but these numbers suggest over 8 million people pay $15 per month and do nothing. Bullshit.
It is very common for people with one or more 80-level toon to have a lowbie character or two used primarily for banking purposes. So, it’s understandable that it might be the case that 70% of the characters don’t make it past level 10 but not 70% of the players.
People are also criticizing the subscriber base for “not having any growth since 2008″. Apparently there were 11.5 million subscribers in late 2008, which is how many there are now. Does that mean WoW has hit a plateau? I don’t think so. Why? Did everyone forget the huge China fiasco that recently occurred? I’m sure there are millions of subscribers there who are now unable to play. Once the China situation gets fixed I’m sure we will see a sky-rocket in the numbers. Maybe as high as 15 million? Speculation…
