Tobold's Blog Thursday, November 10, 2011 Anybody from China?
While I do try to keep up to date on what is going on with
MMORPGs, I must admit that the sources I read are all European
or American. Thus I completely missed the fact that Cataclysm
was released in China this July, until a reader told me. Sorry
about that.  But that bit of news makes me scratch my head quite
a bit. What exactly is going on in China? According to Blizzard
they lost a lot of subscribers in China in 2011, both before and
after that Cataclysm release. That would be very atypical. Even
if we consider Cataclysm a "bad" expansion, in Europe and
America its release still led to a spike in subscription
numbers. That spike fell off quicker than that of previous
expansions, but that still took several months. Why would that
be otherwise in China? To have a continued drop of subscriptions
right through an expansion release, Cataclysm would have to have
sold extremely badly in China. And I doubt that just because I
and other blogger wrote ab