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World of Warcraft For The Win
In a press release from their website, Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft has won. Or, more specifically, that the game "has surpassed 1.5 million paying customers in China - just a month following the game's commercial launch on June 7, 2005. The critically acclaimed World of Warcraft has now achieved another significant milestone as the largest MMORPG in the world, with more than 3.5 million global customers." Relatedly, Gamespy's OnLife column this week centers around the WoW duping story that we touched on earlier. From the article: "Needless to say, many players are a bit incensed that Blizzard isn't taking this as seriously as they feel it should. Others, though, are convinced that there isn't any duping actually going on. It's an urban myth, they say, which gullible forumites are unwittingly perpetuating."
yeah, baby, yeah!
3.5 million customers at $15 a month = $52,500,000 a month.
And the game is still buggy as shit according to those few of my friends that still play.
That's enough money to hire at least 500 senior programmers to fix their damn game.
I played it for several months, but got utterly bored with it, tired of all its bugs and lack of promised features and quit back in April. I thought it was too slow paced and repetitive, not to mention the drunken bird flights that took^H^H^H^Hwasted ridiculous amounts of time. I couldn't justify $15 a month for it. Everyone said that it was the fastest paced and best MMO out there but the least rotten piece of fruit is still a rotten piece of fruit.
Question everything
"... surpassed 1.5 million paying customers in China"
.5 Million paying customers :P
1 Million ebay gold farmers
(Before anyone complains... this is not racism)
You mean, video card right? Since I assume the monitor he uses leaves no distributable imprint on files he views...