Figures revealed during an Activision-Blizzard investor call have shown that World of WarCraft is withering slowly but it certainly is not dying.
According to the investor call, World of WarCraft currently has 10.2 million subscribers, a hundred thousand less than the 10.3 million subscribers reported in a similar call three months ago.
The company acknowledged that free-to-play MMO RPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) are eating into its customer base and admitted that the numbers could have been worse hadn't it been for the success of the annual pass program. In fact, more than a million players have participated in the annual pass program where they paid for a full year World of WarCraft subscription and got a free copy of Diablo III as a bonus.