World Of Warcraft Reaches New Milestone

malware · Jul 26, 2007

Blizzard's award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft (WoW) has reached a new milestone, with a player base now totaling more than 9 million subscribers worldwide. Since debuting in North America on November 23, 2004, World of Warcraft has become the most popular MMORPG around the world. It was the bestselling PC game of 2005 and 2006 and has remained at or near the top of the weekly PC-game sales charts for much of 2007 as well. Blizzard's Burning Crusade expansion released to critical acclaim in several regions earlier this year and shattered PC-game sales records in North America and Europe, with nearly 2.4 million copies sold in its first 24 hours of release and approximately 3.5 million in its first month. World of Warcraft is available in seven different languages and, in addition to North America and Europe, is played in mainland China, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau.

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newconroer · Jul 26, 2007

Um, haven't they been saying "9 million" for over six months now.

Maybe it was 8.8 and people were rounding up for good measure.

While those numbers are horrendously fabricated, there's one great thing about all the WoW players being on WoW : They're lame asses aren't on Everquest

Shame Blizzard didn't make a Starcraft MMO instead.

Darknova · Jul 26, 2007

What? And ruin Starcraft as well? No thanks lol.

newconroer · Jul 26, 2007

ROFL P w N 3 D

spectre440 · Jul 26, 2007

Darknova said:
What? And ruin Starcraft as well? No thanks lol.

agreed.

WarEagleAU · Jul 26, 2007

some folks are too addicted to this game though.

Darknova · Jul 26, 2007

WarEagleAU said:
some folks are too addicted to this game though.

Oh I know, it's quite pathetic.

*grind grind grind grind* *level up* *grind grind grind grind grind* *level up* *get killed over and over again by some noob*

Woo...real fun :rolleyes:

Glump Bliermp · Jul 26, 2007

I played the free trial of WoW. I saw some guy fishing for like 6 hours...

Chewy · Jul 26, 2007

he could of been fish hackin? did he speak? Blizzard made Warcraft 2! okok warcraft 3 sucks though and they prob made that too lol

trt740 · Jul 26, 2007

You guys are right that games sucks it's the 8 million plus people who play it every day that are lame not you guys. I mean it's only the most sucessful game ever made. :rolleyes:

Nemesis881 · Jul 26, 2007

Darknova said:
What? And ruin Starcraft as well? No thanks lol.

DaMulta · Jul 26, 2007

I have never played it

Zubasa · Jul 26, 2007

Enjoy it.

bigboi86 · Jul 26, 2007

I play WoW, you don't see me sitting on that game for several hours a day :rolleyes:

Hate on it all you want, half of you never played it for any amount of time. MMORPGs are fun, and it's fun communicating with people and doing things with them.

a111087 · Jul 26, 2007

I thought it was bad game, but when i tried it i saw that mmo's are much more fun than other games! played WOW for 1.5 years... until got banned

Darkrealms · Jul 26, 2007

newconroer said:
Um, haven't they been saying "9 million" for over six months now.

Maybe it was 8.8 and people were rounding up for good measure.

While those numbers are horrendously fabricated, there's one great thing about all the WoW players being on WoW : They're lame asses aren't on Everquest

Shame Blizzard didn't make a Starcraft MMO instead.

LoL, about 6 months ago it was 8 million. EQ?!? whats that rofl (kidding)

spectre440 said:
Darknova said:

What? And ruin Starcraft as well? No thanks lol.

Click to expand...

agreed.

Seconded

Darknova said:
Oh I know, it's quite pathetic.

*grind grind grind grind* *level up* *grind grind grind grind grind* *level up* *get killed over and over again by some noob*

Woo...real fun

Your missing out, you've got to be KILLING not getting killed @_o

a111087 said:
I thought it was bad game, but when i tried it i saw that mmo's are much more fun than other games! played WOW for 1.5 years... until got banned

One of the best things about computer games over consoles, it is possible to get banned.

Starcraft 2 is coming out and THANK GOD they are keeping the same concept, no heroes (WC3), no MMO, etc! I can't wait!

I've been playing WoW since beta, I have both special edition sets (never been to blizzcon tho), and I've tried about every class and race. I like it but then again I play with friends and probably don't play more than 20hrs a week if that. Its all about priorities and moderation people

wazzledoozle · Jul 26, 2007

bigboi86 said:
I play WoW, you don't see me sitting on that game for several hours a day

Hate on it all you want, half of you never played it for any amount of time. MMORPGs are fun, and it's fun communicating with people and doing things with them.

I do this every day, but I dont need WoW for it.

bigboi86 · Jul 26, 2007

wazzledoozle said:
I do this every day, but I dont need WoW for it.

Neither do I, but why not be social AND game?

Polaris573 · Jul 27, 2007

I know a guy who has made quite a bit of money farming gold, leveling characters and then selling these items to fools who have more money than brains. He has a farm of three computers that he bots while he is in class or at a real job. He uses the money he gets from that on fun things like trips to Colorado or South America. It's a great idea, basically free money.

spectre440 · Jul 27, 2007

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