Nobody can determine this though because what might be “fun” for you, might not be “fun” for me.
What you might consider righting a wrong, could be wronging a right for somebody else. It’s an impossible factor to determine because, like it or not, the playerbase is still large.
Iam really surprised about the positivity in this thread. I expected people to throw stones and scream classic much more 
I’m just guessing their intentions. I came from a mmorpg with maybe 10k players and it still felt full, so I couldn’t care less about “WoW is dying” posts.
But I guess a good part for the increased subs is really because of flying (8.2) in WoW, and upcoming Classic release.
What this old chestnut again…Always the same thing and always proven not to be the case do have to wonder if the small percentage who keep doing this have anything better to do with their lives.
I think people who discuss about these things are not the ones we mean by doomsayers. It’s good and healthy to raise issues and talk about them, even when everyone doesn’t agree. But it is different when people for example stop playing and keep coming to wow forums just to gloat on anything “bad” they see about wow. That behaviour i have troubles to understand.
Careful now, you’ll have people claiming that this is not you posting, but a Blizzard employee who rappelled down into your house from one of their stealth black helicopters that only ‘small indie companies’ have, double tapped you in the back of the head, and had you bundled off to a secret gulag somewhere in California, where you can be mentally re-educated, under project ‘White Knight’, so that you can be returned and will say only good things.
Or, and this they will find completely unbelievable, you could just be expressing your opinion, the same as they are. Everybody knows the opinions of Doomsayers are supremely important, especially when they are not backed up with facts. We should be glad for these heroes, they continue to tell us how awful everything is. Whilst still paying for it. And still playing it. And never, despite requests giving us the surcease and just -going away-.
short term subs only.
It was just another 6 month sub thing, that raked in millions of $ and bound people for a long time. Also the World First race happened, which drew people back for a month, because thats an event that actually generates hype for the game, unlike the mdi or pvp events. (hi, i was one of them and the few days between classic release and the end of this one month sub will be unsub time again, without missing the live version at all)
Also, classic comes out in two weeks. people re-subbed already to get into the mood and claim their character names.
shocking, how easily stuff can be explained, if you look further than the tip of your nose…
Most of those subs are almost guaranteed to have been because of Classic’s imminent release.
10 Char 10. hat
WoW won’t die. Sure, its numbers will go up and down, like any MMO, but it’s not going anywhere. If anything, Classic is bringing back some older players who left a long time ago.
Exactly this.
And if anything, people are likely to dabble in both. Some will remain true to the current version of WoW that’s out today and other’s will remain true to Classic, but I think the silent player, will play both and be happy to have that choice.
A choice, which is now, legal, in essence.
why are you creating a brand new post when there is an active post on exactly the same issue which is still current? 
its only 7 days old and has 234 posts, and over 3K views. are you just trying to split the opinion because wow actually is doing bad? of course subs will go up on a major patch release. is it any wonder why the patch came out when it did. its like George Osborne in 2012 saying “we’ve had a fantastic quarter, numbers are up a lot”. of course they were up, London had just held the 2012 olympics. it would have been impossible for the numbers to go down. HOWEVER a one time event can not be used as a “oooo we have increased income” arguement. between patches BfA is losing players i am almost certain. and if that is not true, then release the accurate numbers in a transparent way that players can audit it, like wowprogress details.
its just smoke and mirrors and blizzard massaging the numbers and timing of information releases. you’ve fallen for it.
ofc they are people are resubbing for classic
Give it 2 or 3 days and the Youtube bandwagon will come crashing through the forums chock full of doomsayers all waving their “MY FAVOURTITE YOUTUBER OR TWITCH STREAMER WAS RIGHT!!”.
They have nothing but a conspiracy theory every streamer and’Tuber is repeating each other for the benefit of their view count.
The rest of us just sit back with a cup of cocoa and a biccie and laugh to ourselves whilst watching.
But when they realize it doesant have the same ease of access things BFA has some new players will return to BFA because classic is not for everyone in my opinion yes you can play it but let’s be honest here you will miss the LFG tools and dungeon finders and queing for PvP and many more QOL changes you have gotten used to so only hardcore veterans will play it by themselves at least that’s how I see it personally it’s just my opinion you don’t have to agree with me.
Well no way! Of course, Classic is coming, nobody is coming for bfa I guarantee lmao. You will see it in Twitch and everywhere Classic will take over wow, at least till 9.0. 9.0 better be good.
You came back.
I never left. Got 6 months for Classic /Stress/Name :). But the subs are higher for BFA I’m sure.
Well in February u said u unsubbed and around March you came back when they gave free weekend. Then u disappeared until June where they say sub started growing again. And after u resubbed in June u stayed until now. So if YOU did it, why would you claim “nobody is coming for bfa i guarantee”?
"Without actual subscriber numbers this piece data isn’t that useful. As far as I know they also don’t report decreases in the number of subscribers.
For all we know WoW dipped to one million subs and then the number increased to 1.2 million in Q2 2019. (I don’t think this scenario is particularly likely, I just meant to show how little we can infer from this report)"
This is like the people claiming we have 5m subs because those were the latest number they could find, 4 years ago in WoD. But when we take the number of 120s subtract the 2-3 alts per account, multiboxers etc. you hover about 1m with a long stretch to 1.5m for EU.
Last week of June, players everywhere, now atm density decreased alot. Did they already quit? Did they sub for classic? Are they already raid/M+ logging?