World of Warcraft monthly subscribers fall to 5.6M, its lowest level since 2005

Blizzard is getting ready to announce some major new content for World of Warcraft later this week, and it seems clear now that the publisher is trying to get lapsed players back.

World of Warcraft lost 1.5 million subscribers from the first three months of the year through the second three months. That drops the game’s total number of subscribers to “only” 5.6 million, which is down from 7.1 million during Activision’s Q1. This bleeding comes around a half a year after Blizzard released the Warlords of Draenor expansion for World of Warcraft that gave a huge boost to the massively multiplayer online game.