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WoW Reaches 1.5 Million Subscribers

Posted by Zonk on from the even-nuns-are-playing-it dept.

Alarash writes "Blizzard just announced that its latest video game (and first MMO), World of Warcraft reached 1.5 millions of subscribers world-wide. Blizzard is now second only to NCSoft (over 5 millions users spread on Lineage, Lineage II and City of Heroes) according to the MMOG Chart."

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  1. Character transfers by Lobishomen · · Score: 5, Informative
    Blizzard also recently started offering the first batch of selective server transfers.

    Blizzard Character Transfer FAQ.

    People from high population servers are being given the option of a transfer to a Blizzard selected lower population server free with gear. This isn't the "Pick any server" transfer people were hoping for, but it should help ease out the congestion on the high load servers.

    That and there's a huge new content patch coming off the test server in a few days. Things in the game are looking good. Good news for those of us still hopelessly addicted.