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Gaming => Video Game Generation => Topic started by: captain_nintendo on July 26, 2007, 09:34:23 AM



Title: World of Warcraft surpasses 9 million subscribers.
Post by: captain_nintendo on July 26, 2007, 09:34:23 AM
It's over 9,000,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!


 Read about it here (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=27012)


That's a lot of subscriptions :o


Title: Re: World of Warcraft surpasses 9 million subscribers.
Post by: Tynstar on July 26, 2007, 11:06:02 PM
Damn thats a lot of loot.


Title: Re: World of Warcraft surpasses 9 million subscribers.
Post by: Tynstar on July 26, 2007, 11:07:43 PM
9 mil x 13 (average a month to play) = 117000000


Title: Re: World of Warcraft surpasses 9 million subscribers.
Post by: Tondog on July 26, 2007, 11:10:59 PM
I bet Blizzard has a fleet of private Lear Jets with all that mad paper!


Title: Re: World of Warcraft surpasses 9 million subscribers.
Post by: OatBob on July 27, 2007, 03:24:00 AM
That seems like a lot, but they usually take their time (and then some) on their projects, and it shows.  Its not unusual for them to have a game in development for 5 years and still have delays.  With their outstanding track record of hit games, I'ld say the extra time has payed off.


Title: Re: World of Warcraft surpasses 9 million subscribers.
Post by: Cobra on July 27, 2007, 04:37:53 AM
I love Blizzard for their classics like Rock n' Roll Racing, to the fact they release their games as hybrids for both PC & Mac users.

I still haven't ever played WOW, but hell I may one day. I just figure it'll be a very time consuming game so never touched it.


Title: Re: World of Warcraft surpasses 9 million subscribers.
Post by: Mike Leon on July 29, 2007, 10:44:56 PM
They definitely are raking in some serious cheddar. For the record though, it DOES cost a lot to run game. There are literally airline hangars full of servers that have to be maintained constantly. There is also a development team working on the game persistantly, as new content is added all the time. So it isn't all just profit like some people make it out to be.

I'd still like to have just .001% of the net. I'd never work again.


Title: Re: World of Warcraft surpasses 9 million subscribers.
Post by: Hydrobond on July 30, 2007, 07:18:56 AM
And that 9 million number includes people who have stopped playing, or don't only play a few months out of the year, like me.  Also, the people who play in places besides the US don't pay as much to play.  I would be surprised if the people in China who play even pay 1/5th of that.

I'm still waiting for a World of Starcraft.  (Though if they make another one, it will be WoW2 or World of Diablo.)


Title: Re: World of Warcraft surpasses 9 million subscribers.
Post by: captain_nintendo on July 30, 2007, 07:40:47 AM
How many active users do you think WoW has?