The last of the major game-publisher keynotes at this week's Gamescom gaming conference in Cologne, Germany belonged to Blizzard, who came to the show with mostly tepid announcements so as to leave a few good reveals for the company's November Blizzcon event. But the company couldn't hold back at least one of its major announcements, possibly because investors got some bad World of Warcraft news earlier this week.
Blizzard's second-quarter financial report on Tuesday included a 5.6 million tally for World of Warcraft subscribers, a number that, according to this handy MMO Champion chart, hasn't been so low since the end of 2005. Back then, the game's subscriber numbers had just begun their astronomical climb (and a pretty severe dive from the prior quarter's 7.1 million subs). As such, Blizzard took a Gamescom opportunity to try to rekindle interest by dedicating an entire presentation to the game's sixth expansion, World of Warcraft: Legion.
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