World of Warcraft’s 3M subscriber drop is not a problem, one analyst says

Despite World of Warcraft’s recent spike and plunge in paid subscribers, Blizzard Entertainment has a bright future, SuperData Research chief executive Joost van Dreunen said.

We knew Blizzard Entertainment’s Ion “Watcher” Hazzikostas would be bullish on Warcraft regardless of the recent subscription roller coaster (and he was, though the lead game designer pointed out some flaws the company plans to correct). But GamesBeat sought out the thoughts of one of the market-research firms that follow the $2.3 billion pay-to-play massively multiplayer online RPG world most closely for a more-neutral opinion.