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5.5 Million WoW Players, Lunar Festival

Gamasutra reports that World of Warcraft has hit another milestone in subscribers, with One Million European players and 5.5 Million players worldwide. From the article: "The figure of 1 million customers is more than four times the previously estimated size of the entire European MMORPG market. According to data from Media Control and GFK panels, plus internal studies and account data from Blizzard itself, the company is also claiming that World of WarCraft was the best selling full price PC game in Europe last year." All those players will have a new world event to look forward to at the end of the month, as RPG Vault gives a preview on the Lunar Festival due to be released on January 27th.

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  1. illuminati? by Eightyford · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When the peasants were getting too smart, the illuminati invented the television. They saw the threat of free information that the internet created and invented WoW to distract the masses. I'm not making any of thi