Activision-Blizzard

Despite subscription losses for World of Warcraft last quarter, Activision Blizzard is doing well — well enough that it's become the second gaming company to join the S&P 500.

In advance of the Activision-Blizzard second quarter earning results today, the company has issued a press release that includes the number of active World of Warcraft subscribers in the second quarter of 2015: 5.6 million.

World of Warcraft's subscriber numbers are down this quarter, but the game continues to be the world's top subscription-based MMORPG.

We posted yesterday about the Activision-Blizzard earnings call and all the various news from said earnings call, like Hearthstone's runaway success and the subscription numbers on Warlords of Draenor (they're still over 10 million) and that got me thinking.

World of Warcraft held onto its top spot as the number one MMORPG in the world with over ten million subs in Q4 2014.