World of Warcraft subscription numbers have long been shrouded in mystery, but thanks to a recent Blizzard GDC talk and some clever number-crunching by a WoW content creator, fans of Blizzard’s MMO now have some hard data on exactly how many players are paying a monthly subscription fee for the privilege of exploring Azeroth.
Blizzard stopped giving out exact subscription numbers prior to the release of the game’s 2016 Legion expansion. Since then, fans have wondered how well (or how poorly) the game has been doing from a player-number perspective, especially following the release of 2020’s Shadowlands, which is considered a low point in the game’s long history.
