now over 5 MILLION WoW subscribers
 

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/39992

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For those of you keeping score at home. Blizzard Entertainment has just announced that they have now reached 5 million paying subscribers to World of Warcraft across the globe. In late July it was 3.5 million and then 4 million in late August. So 5 million is like, a lot more.

IRVINE, Calif. – December 19, 2005 – Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that World of Warcraft®, its massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), has surpassed five million customers worldwide. The subscription-based MMORPG launched approximately one year ago in North America, Australia, and New Zealand and has since released in multiple countries throughout Europe and Asia.

So then... 5 million people paying roughly $12 - $15 per month would be $60 - $75 million each month. Perhaps if they work really hard they get to gross over a billion dollars next year.


How many people here play it? is it really that good or are you just brainwashed or sumthin..... oOo:

my lil bro plays that shit like theres no real world

it looks kind of cool but not 5 million paying subscribers cool...he told me they have like 50 3000-person servers...looks like they might need a few more now

1 word

Asians

W ed: W!

i just finished playing the beta for D&D Online and imagine that game will cut into their pretty little numbers....

WoW isn't as fun as Lineage 2 is. Of course I play on private servers, I don't pay to play any game on a monthly basis.

If you want to play WoW or L2 for free legally, just PM me.

How sad [img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/Smilie/gayeek.gif[/img]

I started playing again after 4 months of not playing... And it's even more addictive now that it was before...

5 million @ 20.00 bucks a month.

i canceled my subscription last month. It really is addicting, im not even sure it was that fun, I just wanted to get to the highest level and get the best gear. Im glad i stopped playing though, I have a lot more free time now...to play other games.

Would be interesting to see just how many subscibers are actually asian, probably makes up well over half the player base.

Or we could just wait till the servers crash for a couple of days and see how many asian suicides there are.

$100,000,000 a month....i wanna know where the FUCK does that net income go?

its gotta be like 90 mil profit every month

It's $13-15 a month depending how many months you pay for.

Supposodly a lot of it goes to "upkeep of the servers" with the rest going to high class hookers, cocaine etc for the dev team.

haha yeah i bet you those servers cant cost more than a mil a year total...either way, there are at least 50 million dollars sitting around every month (depending on the actual cost of subscription)

i bet the devs are livin t up like jay-z now...itd be funny for em to make a music video

135 servers takes quite a bit of money to keep up...

15% are going to die in future jump off cliff events and 79 hour straight gaming.

[quote=Akuma]135 servers takes quite a bit of money to keep up...[/quote:9f51e]

imagine trying to keep up 135 servers. now imagine to keep up 135 servers that have like 10,000 people on tem at once.

my god. oOo:

Weird... http://www.realdoll.com (note: plastic nudity) just recorded their 5 millionth sale oOo:

i tried it out for a week or two, but i didnt really get into it. i played SWG for a little over a year, but thats mostly cause i like star wars.

Games you have to subscribe to are bull shit. You already pay 39-50 dollars for that fucking thing (not counting warez) just amnother way to stick it to you

i think they are worth it. there is alot of content in these games. you take a genre that people really love (star wars, warcraft) and you make a game that doesnt really have an ending and has an almost limitless amount of content. its like playing your favourite game knowing that it expands all the time.

I play it with a bunch of people from school, being able to play with actual people you know makes the game a lot more fun.

School helps balance out my play time though, I barley play during the week but when I have free time I'll play it. I've never had a problem with not being able to leave, if I don't feel like playing I hit Esc and quit the game.

I've succumbed to playing again. Just ran molten core tonight and got my Nightslayer Pants and gloves cool:

lol Yeah, I quit playing last June but I found out about 8 people I'm good friends with played it which surprised me so they convinced me to come back and play it again.

The game is legitametly fun too.

Yes, but while you are trying to level your fishing to 300, i'm killing nefarion in BWL sleeping:

I'm a video game rockstar no matter what game i play.

ktog pwn nubs

loney:

WOW !

one of my roommates (the one that got jacked off by the "dude") played this game religiously. With our new room setup, he is able to put his monitor ontop of his chest of drawers and lay in his bed as he plays WoW. His mom got him a little lap-desk thing, so he uses his wireless mouse on that and has the wireless keyboard.

There are moments where he dangerously plays way too much of that game...socially and physically. oOo:

Theres a guy on xfire from my old clan, I dont think i've ever seen him not playing it oOo:

Just started playing when I got back from the field, been playing for allmost two months now and can't stop playing. It really is a fun game.. the quests are actually worth following. Right now I'm currently a level 38 Human Paladin biggrin:

[quote="Zap. USMC":36da5]Just started playing when I got back from the field, been playing for allmost two months now and can't stop playing. It really is a fun game.. the quests are actually worth following. Right now I'm currently a level 38 Human Paladin biggrin:[/quote:36da5] annoy: , be careful, we don't want any asian-like gaming casualties

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What? Theres a good story here