WoW: Shadowlands release date, and early sales have been huge – bigger than any other expansion in the game's history, in fact.
For WoW, "franchise engagement is at its highest level for this stage ahead of an expansion in a decade, with pre-sales well ahead of any prior expansion," Activision Blizzard COO Daniel Alegre says as part of the company's latest subscriber base doubled following the launch of Classic last year."
Blizzard's games – including both WoW and the rest of the catalogue – had an average of 30 million monthly active s for the most recent quarter. 10 million of those s are Overwatch players, but the company doesn't say how much WoW contributed to the full figure – just that WoW's player count is "stable" after the dramatic increase last year caused by Classic.
Shadowlands is landing in November after its initial delay, so we'll find out how the hype pays off soon enough.
On the other side of Activision Blizzard, the financial report also revealed some details on Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War Season 1 and its integration with Warzone.