Blizzard explained why World of Warcraft is losing subscribers

Lead designer of World of Warcraft Tom Chilton called the reasons for declining number of subscribers to the game (in recent years it has fallen from a peak of 12 million to 7.7 million). He noted that World of Warcraft is a very old game - in the winter she will be nine years old. Many solutions inherent to the game of date, but the developers can not take and turn everything upside down - that would be too cruel to the users. Therefore, World of Warcraft can only develop evolutionary, not revolutionary.

Now Blizzard are trying to increase the frequency of content-out patches. The idea is simple - the more frequently updated game, the more people reasons to stay in it. Team World of Warcraft has been increased by 40%, and in the near future it will again have a major recruitment. In the team's plans - to release to update a month.

Thinking in the company and the expansion of additional paid features. In the near future the store should appear more "decorative" items with which to decorate their hero. Finally, on the question of the transition World of Warcraft on a free trial model Tom replied evasively - "maybe in the future really will come a day when we want to do it."

Source: games mail