Activision has disclosed that the subscriber count for World of Warcraft now stands at 6.8 million players. It’s down by 800,000 compared to where it stood three months ago.
According to WOWInsider, World of Warcraft announced a loss of 100k last November, a gain of 200k in February, and another loss of 200k in May. The game has lost over 3 million players in the period between Mists of Pandaria and Warlords of Draenor.
The firm claims that most of the losses were “disproportionately concentrated in the East,” referring to its Chinese playerbase.
Despite the fact that the playerbase is dropping the game for other titles like The Elder Scrolls Online and WildStar, World of Warcraft remains the most popular and most populous MMORPG out on the market—and it’s poised to regain much of its userbase with the release of the Warlords of Draenor expansion pack, which is slated for release before the end of the year.
Blizzard is expected to announce the release date for its World of Warcraft expansion Warlords of Draenor on August 14, alongside the release of the game's CGI trailer.