If you're playing
World of Warcraft right now, odds apparently are that
you'll be doing that for some time to come. That's the word straight from sister site Joystiq, which listened in on the Activision/Blizzard financials conference call earlier this week. In speaking to the assembled business-types Blizzard President Mike Morhaime
reiterated earlier statements, saying something like 70% of folks who left
WoW for
Age of Conan are already back. Of the players that left the game for
Warhammer Online, almost 50% of them have already returned to the Azerothian fold.
Mark Jacobs may have
pooh-pooh'd Blizzard claims (on
more than one occassion) but anecdotally it certainly seems like Shattrath has been a busy place in the last few weeks. These numbers, of course, are all in advance of
Wrath of the Lich King's launch next week. Analysts see
Wrath of the Lich King garnering a whole new wave of attention to the game, and within the next few weeks we could see announcements of even more individuals signing into Blizzard's juggernaut of a title.
