Activision Shares Down Thanks to World of Warcraft Slide

Contempt posting great financials for the quarter and the year, Activision's share respect dropped more half a dozen percent happening news that World of Warcraft subscriptions continue to decline.

Lay eyes on Activision, which is having a jolly good twelvemonth. In its nearly recent commercial enterprise statement, the company reported third-quarter earnings of $148 million, almost tripling the outlook it provided in early August. Period of time profits outpaced analysts' expectations, leading Activision to raise its year-goal forecast. On top of all that, Modern Warfare 3 was every morsel as big as expected and may ring up 18 million whole sales by the end of the year.

Yet Activision's share price tumbled 6.5 percent connected the intelligence. The problem, according to Citigroup analysts Neil Doshi and Mark Mahaney, is Public of Warcraft, which mazed 800,000 subscribers all over the quarter. That's problematic because subscription income from games like Universe of Warcraft – and let's atomic number 4 sincere, the solely pun like World of Warcraft is World of Warcraft – represents 44 percent of Activision's business, the largest single slice of the pie.

And although IT's still the stupendous dog in the subscription-based MMO inner circle with 10.3 one thousand thousand users, nil, not even WoW, can acquire a run into like that and not feel information technology. It's even worse if you look back ended the past year: from October 2010 until now, the gimpy has dropped nearly two million subscribers. Those losses could farm even worse over the holiday quarter, they said, thanks to competition from big releases equivalent Skyrim and, you guessed it, Current Warfare 3.

Source: Bloomberg

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