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World of Warcraft Hits 9 Million Users

Posted by Zonk on from the good-thing-no-one-is-dualboxing dept.

Wowzer writes "Blizzard today announced that their MMORPG World of Warcraft is now played by more than 9 million gamers around the world. From the article: 'That's half a million more than the number of monthly players WoW had back in March five months ago. — It's interesting to note that if the World of Warcraft were a nation, CIA's World Factbook says that out of 236 listed countries it would be the 90th most populated country on Earth above Haiti, but behind Sweden.' Also revealed this week was that DC Comics are creating World of Warcraft Comic Books based on the MMORPG, with the first issue appearing on November 14th. The ongoing monthly series will be written by industry veteran Walter Simonson (Thor, Orion) and feature art by Ludo Lullabi and inker Sandra Hope."

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  1. Yes... by feepness · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...but what did it hit them with.

    1. Re:Yes... by shoptroll · · Score: 5, Funny

      Knowing blizzard:

      Either a nerf bat or a ban hammer.

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    2. Re:Yes... by Himring · · Score: 4, Funny

      WoW just follows the rules of mmogs. These rules are:

      You always try out-level, and never play with, your friends (no matter what the voiced intentions)

      As soon as you finish that quest for that really cool item, a new one comes making it totally worthless

      In pvp, if you're in an area where there's a remote possibility you'll get ganked, you will be

      In pvp, if you're in an area where there's no way you'll get ganked, you will be

      The smallest possible race will always be rolled as a tank, and be better at it than the biggest possible race

      1 out of 3, no 2 out of 3 ... no, 3 out of 3 quests will, at some point, make no sense

      You will always respec wrong

      You will hate the game

      You will not stop playing the game

      You will wonder why you cannot stop playing the game

      You will cancel your account

      You will re-open your account

      You will cancel your account

      [ad infinitum]

      The maker will always nerf your class

      The maker will always buff your friend's class

      You will sell your account for $x amount of money and feel you actually are a good business man (when, truth is, you invested 100x that much)

      You will create a new account and character

      You will tell yourself that it isn't so bad this time because you're so good at it

      You will cancel your account

      You will play another mmog and tell yourself and your friends how much better/different it is than the last

      You will create a character on a role-playing server and never role-play (nor will anyone else; people who do rarely role-play are made fun of)

      K, I'm done, someone take over....

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    3. Re:Yes... by The+One+and+Only · · Score: 4, Funny

      Heroin is less time-consuming.

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    4. Re:Yes... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      GOTO 10 ?

    5. Re:Yes... by OzoneLad · · Score: 3, Funny

      Heroin is less time-consuming. Depends on how much grinding you need to do to buy that next hit.
    6. Re:Yes... by sqrt(2) · · Score: 2, Funny

      Luckily, I dodge that bullet by not having a relationship in the first place.

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  2. Damn by fliptw · · Score: 3, Funny

    WOW is fast to hit that many people. I hope the injuries aren't serious.

  3. But like in any economy... by vigmeister · · Score: 3, Funny

    80% of them are farming gold for the upper 20% :) Gold farmers shouldn't count...

    Cheers!

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  4. Re:Class warfare? by Yahweh+Doesn't+Exist · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since it's WORLD of warcraft, not DEVELOPED COUNTRY of warcraft, it should really be more of a 95/5 split

  5. ONE OF US by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ONE OF US ONE OF US

  6. Comic endeavor by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    Each issue of the WoW comic's gripping storyline will be interrupted by the characters running around shouting misspelled racist and homophobic epithets at the reader for two solid pages.

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  7. Yet Somehow... by SQLz · · Score: 5, Funny

    There are only 9 million players but 11 million night elf hunters. Go figure.

  8. What is World of Warcraft by zussal · · Score: 3, Funny

    Am I out of touch, what is this World of Warcraft thing?

  9. yeah but... by to_kallon · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's interesting to note that if the World of Warcraft were a nation, CIA's World Factbook says that out of 236 listed countries it would be the 90th most populated country on Earth above Haiti, but behind Sweden. i pasted this to a friend who pointed out that while the taxes are much lower the death rate is significantly higher...

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  10. In other news... by I.+C.+Wiener · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Department of Education reports 9M new drop-outs.

  11. Åh nej! by Sobieski · · Score: 5, Funny

    De är ikapp oss! Börja kopulera för guds skull!

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  12. Woo hoo! by geminidomino · · Score: 2, Funny

    And the remaining 5.991 Billion people *still* don't give a fuck.

    Ahh, perspective...

  13. Re:MMORPG popularity by geminidomino · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're obviously content with the size of your dick, and as such, are not the target demographic for PVP.