Mists of Pandaria discussion

[Treesh]

You don't lose 15% of your player base like that with no real competition in just 9 months unless you're doing something wrong and alienating people.

Who says the competition has to be another MMO? Just because they choose to play an MMO doesn't mean they exclude other genres. There have been some very highly anticipated games here recently that aren't MMOs - Skyrim, Call of Duty. Do you have the numbers for right around Fallout 3 release? I know a few folks who let subs run out when other games are getting close to release, even if they aren't the same genre. Of course, I also know a few who finally dropped WoW because of the Kung Fu Panda expansion. There are many possible reasons why people are leaving WoW, or temporarily so. Without getting data about the why you can't come to the conclusion that it's simply because of the B team. Get the data that Blizzard collects when you cancel the account and make the peons cry. That will help you more with the why than just pointing to numbers of subscribers lost.