Activision Blizzard recently released their quarterly earnings, and the company revealed that after the latest World of Warcraft expansion, Cataclysm, subscriber count dropped by 5%, settling in at 11.4 million paying subscribers. WoW hit 12 million subscribers with the launch of Cataclysm (read our WoW Cataclysm review here).

Activision Blizzard explained that the lower subscriber count is due to players completing the levels and content in Cataclysm quicker than they did with previous WoW expansions. The Cataclysm expansion has sold over 5 million copies to date. One can imagine that some of those subscribers also left for competing MMOs. Or perhaps they just got a life instead.