Players to Blizzard: Keep Fucking That Chicken

I don’t think there’s ever been more whining about World of Warcraft in the blogosphere than in the last couple of months. The decline of WoW has been stated as fact and its demise predicted. Well, it seems Blizzard is still doing something right – they just announced a new peak in subscriber numbers at 12 million.

We haven’t heard new records from WoW in a while and it’s easy to claim that as proof for the decline of the game. Actually the lack of subscribers came from the inability if most Chinese players to access the game though. Now that they got back in again a little more than a month ago, numbers are way up once more.

Sure, this doesn’t settle the debate of whether mass market appeal makes a game good, but it does show that WoW is still very much alive and kicking. I can only imagine what Cataclysm’s release later this year will do to the numbers – traditionally expansions caused quite the spike.

Check out the full press release (including their definition of subscribers) over at blizzard.com.