World of Warcraft Loses 1.3 Million Players in First Quarter of 2013 [Slashdot]

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hypnosec writes "World of Warcarft, the gaming industry's most popular franchise and one of Blizzard's cash cows, is bleeding subscribers with 1.3 million defecting from the game in the first quarter of 2013 alone. Blizzard revealed a subscriber decline of over 14%, the total now standing at 8.3 million in their earnings call press release (PDF)." http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=World+of+Warcraft+Loses+1.3+Million+Pl ayers+in+First+Quarter+of+2013%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit .ly%2F15uvGTO) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fsto ry%2F13%2F05%2F10%2F0214227%2Fworld-of-warcraft-loses-13-million-players-in-first-quarter-of-2013%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebo ok) http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/05/10/0214227/world-of-warcraft-loses-13-million-players-in-first-quarter-of-2013?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)

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