Quote:Blizzard has revealed that only 30 per cent of new World of Warcraft players make it past level 10.

That's the tipping point at which people either stay or go, which make's the game's 11.5 million subscriber base all the more impressive.

In an investor call following the release of Activision Blizzard's financial results, Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime said the game had a stable subscriber base of 11.5 million players - the same figure announced in July 2008.

Mindful of that dropout rate, Morhaime restated WOW expansion Cataclysm's goal of bringing the existing 'old' world of Azeroth up to "current design standards". That add-on will be released sometime this year.

He also announced that the closed beta for Starcraft II would begin this month, with thousands of players expected to take part across the world, while the revamped Battle.net platform would be released to allow the RTS sequel to be made available digitally as well as in boxed form.

He had a few words on the current situation WOW is facing in China, too - claiming operating partner NetEase was running the game "normally right now" and that the suspension of new registrations was linked to a public holiday, rather than yet another political row over content.

However, he did admit that while the company was hopeful that expansion Wrath of the Lich King would be released there soon, that and prior expansion, The Burning Crusade, had been submitted to the authorities for checking.

Source: Eurogamer

I got to level 16 and 13 i think on my trial

Lv80...yay

I usually gauge whether or not I'll play an mmo on opinions from friends whose opinions I trust, getting to level 20 and how many friends in game I can make in that time. Still, no mmorpg I've played has interested me the way Everquest did.

(12-02-2010 09:12 PM)Browney Wrote:  Lv80...yay

I'd say like 70% of the time it took me to get to level 16 was spent walking, did have a char before that but started again as i was totally lost from Dar trying to rush me upto Deadmines

(13-02-2010 12:40 AM)ViddaXondi Wrote:  

(12-02-2010 09:12 PM)Browney Wrote:  Lv80...yay

I'd say like 70% of the time it took me to get to level 16 was spent walking, did have a char before that but started again as i was totally lost from Dar trying to rush me upto Deadmines

+1
Was easy to tell that the game was boring, anyway.

Haha i never knew that, but i suppose it makes sense..although new players dont get a sense for the game when they leave this early... leave 58 hunter myself and im just getting into it

I got to level 9 on the trial, had a couple days to play still but didn't because I got a ps3 .

I got to level 3. Then a Korean guy attempted to sell me something and followed me like navi. The game got kind of awkward after that.

"Sucky sucky 5 dorrar?"

I'm pretty sure it either has to do with making characters to test classes out, trials, or

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